Poetic Insights
JOURNAL ENTRY: SPRING 2004 INSPIRED BY JOHN 12: 24-25. The fires were hot and the waters were deep. Would I drown or be consumed? But I had forgotten how grace is reaped, and life in Jesus resumed. The weapons that pierce and cause us to bleed and lay us in mourning and gloom, No matter how fierce, still they cannot pierce the pain and wall of the tomb. For in that dark place, the light of His face will show mysteries before unseen. And all the bad will remain in the grave while we are raised redeemed. -Billy Long JOURNAL ENTRY: 6/30/99. INSPIRED BY JOB 29:1-6; ISAIAH 49. Held in deep contempt, and stabbed by eyes of scorn, Heart broken and rent, with dignity stripped and shorn, The honor that was meant, to others has been borne. But God's favor is not spent; why should I then mourn? He has not changed His intent nor the reason I was born! Laid aside and forgotten, no one calls for me. Bereft of my begotten, none upon my knee. But He shall lift