
Waiting
Teach me how to wait
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Teach me how to wait

I found this poem which I wrote some months ago after reading the book of Job. It’s meant to have an anticlimactic sort of feeling—Job’s troubles are mounting, and Satan is hoping for an explosive rebellion against the Lord’s hard providence...

a journal-style poem

a ballad of sorts

Many of my friends, family, and acquaintances were plunged into grief with the sudden passing of a dear wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend and her sixteen year old son in a tragic car accident on March 20.

Can you see his glory now?

When Peter touched the stormy sea He surely felt the cold— With violence the windy blasts And billows round him rolled.
Now as [Jesus] drew near, He saw [Jerusalem] and wept over it.

He will lead me through

“We need to understand that God is always working.