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Patience Perfected

Patience Perfected Better is the end than the beginning. Better is the patient than the proud. Folly boasts of bygone strength, While Wisdom's heart, though sickly struck, With hope of light now long-deferred, Sees and knows the Maker's trust: His people are his portion, His children his preferred. She bears the futile burden, No power of her own can produce the flower's bloom. Yet heaven's Word pours out with power, Working wonders, In the darkness of her womb: Fruit conceived and held in secret, Hidden from the piercing eye, Made ready to breach, breath ready to reach, Formed in darkness, fashioned for light. Groaning too deep for words, Crafted into cries of life, As the Maker's Breath enters, Alive to reside, alive to abide. On earth as in heaven, his glory at home. He set apart the house in the very marrow of its bones, For at the foundation, he found it fitting to inscribe: His name, his name, his name alone! ...

Whispered in the chamber

Whispered in the chamber I am going insane. Our desires, our being, our muchness... astray we all go in all our own ways. I cannot fathom the depth of dissonance found navigating the open waters of interpersonal relationship. I cannot reconcile by reason— let alone by right relation— with flesh and blood beside me. I cannot speak as I ought to. I cannot see as I ought to. I cannot withstand the conflict. I cannot mediate with madness. To the right— I am opposed. To the left— I am opposed. Behind and before— I am opposed. Below and above— I am opposed... ... nearly. There is mercy from above. There is kindness from above. Yet, if to such love above I would appeal, the o pposition downward pulls, in all directions opposite— to pull asunder and suppress such lofty longing, to scatter and sup...

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