From my Archives
I discovered this while looking for something else. Written 16 April 2006, still pertinent in my opinion.
This Day
This day was planned
Before the planets were formed
Before the foundations of time were laid
Within the Godhead salvation's plans were made
Names and dates and all events delineated
Before any temporal things were created
This day was planned
This day was planned
And all events preceding
And all events succeeding
From time before time to that time unfolded
For God has so molded
All in that day
Around that day
From that day
Certainty in play
Sureness of sovereignty
Sweetness of humility
Incarnate Deity
Gave up His life
To ransom me
Received back His life
To secure me
Received back His glory
To receive that which is His due
Due from you and due from me
Due through eternity
From this day which was planned
Before the planet was manned

From my archives

I wrote this in the late 1970s--1977 or 1978--and it shows something of my growth in God's grace between 1967 and then.

From Fear to Grace
I have discovered a new fear: fear of being in His will. Fear? Because of the ramifications, implications, painful joys, joyful agonies, and anticipation of the One who is love, and of love: eternal yet intersecting and making clear the here and now, every here and every now.
I must expand by and in grace lest I burst with realized joy of the immense certainty and comfortability of God is Love.
"That I may know HIM"
At times I want to burst, for I am so small and He is so great. His love is His glory.
I am destroyed (pride ego) and defined (in His image, in His Spirit, in His body, in His bride) by the LORD Himself--known. Love: never past tense--all is simultaneous to Him--praise His Name!
How He loves to hold a child, to teach it to walk and to be honest, to trust not blindly (blind faith is slavery and we have not been called slaves but friends) but with the Spirit enlightened and enlarged intelligence.
For me, faith is not a leap in the dark, emotional and irrational. It is at first in the responsive affirmation of the Lordship of Christ a leap from the dark. It is thereafter exercised in thoughtful, studied, deliberate, prayerful response to the Holy Spirit, searching the Scriptures.

From my archives

I wrote the following on 4 March 1992, remembering a significant occasion in 1967.

25 Years

A silver anniversary of learning

How tarnished and fragile and vacant,

In lieu of empty, E. was ... and

Didn't know she was until

4 March 1967

When the world as she was sure it was

Crashed

Brought down by a quiet telling

Fait accompli

Brought down

A paper mache life--no, more substance than that, but

No basement--bricks perhaps but on sand ... and

Razed so even the sand showed no marking of

E's residence there.

E's no longer at that addresses. Her home is

Smaller and in a tellingly obscure neighborhood

Compared to halcyon sand dunes

Carved instead into rock

Baring that for base

Using the carved stones

For walls, the roof still

Open to the elements

Habitable enough

And growingly grateful as

The Creator of the world is recreating E., and

E.'s world, reality, rock, solidly His.