Loved from Eternity. D. E. Young

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      In agony alway.

      But little time until

      that glad, eternal Day.

      For You will raise us up

      in image like to Him.

      And we shall see our God

      apart from shadows dim,

      forever like to Him

      Whom we alone adore

      To be with Trinity

      forever, ever more.

      January 2012

      Vanity

      (Ecclesiastes, Matthew 5:4)

      Beneath the sun there is no hope,

      no glory, no reward,

      but higher up is life and peace

      in heaven with our Lord.

      A few short days of sorrow more,

      a few more tears and sighs,

      and we shall be with Him above

      enjoying Heaven’s Prize.

      Eternal rest and peace and joy,

      eternal blessedness,

      for those who in their pain below

      their Savior did confess

      and to the end did persevere

      in mockery of pain.

      In self-abasement, these the Sad

      received eternal gain.

      January 2012

      But the Greatest of These is Love

      How strong is Faith and stalwart!

      How vast is Hope and free!

      But Love is still the greatest

      of these, the greatest three.

      January 2012

      On the Marriage of a Friend

      I did not think I’d live to see

      this day become reality.

      So hard this world, so sad and ill—

      who would have guessed that grace would fill

      the deepest, saddest voids that ache

      with peace that love and kindness make.

      October 29, 2011

      Canticles 8:6, 7

      How strong is Death, the murderer,

      that sweeps all men away,

      but just as strong is gentle Love

      that can its force allay.

      No flood can drown sweet Charity,

      nor waters wash away,

      nor can a man obtain her

      or for her favor pay.

      Beyond all price, enduring still,

      the greatest of the three,

      first Faith, then Hope, then Charity,

      that shall forever be.

      February 14, 2012

      For the Rev. Dr. Henry Krabbendam

      (From Psalm 92:14)

      Now you are old, but glory shines

      brighter and brighter on your way,

      the evidence of Love Divine

      which shall shine to the perfect day.

      Mercy that’s come to age, and faith,

      peace, love, and virtue, hotly tried,

      hope that’s more near fulfillment now

      than when your soul was justified.

      About to feast on Heaven’s joy

      more than your little taste below,

      still full of sap and very green

      that shall eternal Glory know.

      So shall the cold, refreshing chill

      of Grace from Heaven streaming down,

      quench the hot, fiendish fires of Hell

      with Mercy flowing all around.

      February 2012

      The Unintended Blessing of Balaam

      How can I curse when God has blessed

      His very own, though vile and weak

      In their own selves, yet strong in Him

      The mighty, holy, and the meek.

      I see him from the highest rocks,

      God’s Israel dwelling safe below,

      A sprawling city, tent on tent,

      That shall eternal Glory know.

      Who can the dust of Jacob count,

      A quarter of their army see?

      O let me die like one of them,

      A righteous end give Thou to me!

      This people all shall dwell alone,

      No other folks shall venture nigh.

      No unclean soul may enter in

      Unto the holy city high.

      For God has sworn to bless His own

      Who will not change His holy will,

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