TRIUMPH

O LORD, The hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
                                                                                        --Jeremiah 17:13

Behold, a dire delusion:
People trapped in a mirror they dub "my phone"
Who in pride concede to folly,
And sink in illusions, alone.

For those caught away in confusion 

For those who in anguish cry
Yet a chance to return-- God's mercy to prove--
He can save them from their lies.

And those who love truth, await watching--
To glimpse the Master-- so holy and high--
To join him in glory, singing,
Behold: our redemption draweth nigh.

The shadow deepens but for a moment--

Soon our King shall be proclaimed
And we will kiss the feet of the one who bled

And praise his holy name.

So can that old serpent quell our praises?

Can shadows corrode our love?

Nay, for the Lord Jesus ascended to glory

And our life is hid in the Light, above.

 

--Abby Elizabeth Charland

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
                                                                                              --Revelation 7: 17

For the Martyrs *

...yea, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.
                                                              --John 16:2

We watch and pray; darkness clenches the sky--
(Satan hates our Savior drawing nigh.)
Our human dew spilled out on stone--
We beg God, please: 
Our tears fall down.

Stretched between here and forevermore
Lingers the anguished, fleshy door;
We pray, oh Lord, that you ease the gate
Where your martyrs bleed
And ache.

Cracks in our hearts-- cracks in the lies--
Lies brought us here, but most don't care why.
(It's just that ugliness is strong,
And people hate the Light
As if God could be wrong.)

To obey Jesus is shamed; evil lusts for blood--

Christians denounced for the 'greater good',

And all the while, they smirk, you see--
Behold Satan's tower:
The final machine.

But go ahead-- mark saints to die:
Prayer ever ascends, like a butterfly.
Life bursts, like a tulip under snow
Death is futile:
Jesus won, we know.


--Abby Elizabeth Charland

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

[The words of Jesus Christ, from the Gospel according to John]
                                -- John 16:33

RIVER*

The seas astir in winds of change

Call to empty souls that wander--

O haughty world, that will not bow
Behold: your Maker's splendor.

Almighty God restrained his anger
And poured forth his billowing rains
That mankind might turn from darkness
And be saved from Hell's long pain.

O the blood of his Son, disregarded--
That rushing river of Life that flows--
Will turn to torrents of righteous judgment,
For fools who disdain to know--

Oh, darkened heart canst thou see thine end?
Immerse thy stain in Calvary's surge!
That the fetters of sin be washed away,
That the corrupted soul be purged--

For Salvation is in God's river--
Behold the flood part- if thou wilt repent,
Death drowned in the love of  Jesus
In the river that mercy sent.

Beyond the deluge, deep and wide,
Behold the daystar shining, true

Kiss the feet of the King that bled

The one they pierced for you.

--Abby Elizabeth Charland


1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in times of trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof, Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
                                                                                 --Psalm 46

SALVATION'S SONG*

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
                                                        --Romans 12:1

SALVATION'S SONG 

Father, regard not the flesh that shudders

Or the dust on trembling knees,

But fill us with truth and mercy

'Til worldly tumults cease.

For who can tally the worth of the bitter cross

Where Satan's loathsome crime was undone?

Oh, neither the world nor it's weighty treasures

Compare to the crown Christ Jesus won.

O Jesus-- our King, our Shepherd

Our holy and merciful Lord--

Your precious blood, it brought us life

The everlasting word.

Some people think they have alot--

Some people claim some right--

But we only desire to follow you,

And to hold aloft that perfect Light--

(So that another soul might see God's mercy

When that cross by death from death set free--

Our desperate plight, our hopelessness

Washed away, at Calvary.)

Now we are gathered in one by Jesus Christ

To nevermore walk alone;

Now, for his glory we lay down everything

To resound salvation's song.

~Abby Elizabeth Charland

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard. neither have entered into the heart of man, the things God hath prepared for those that love him.

                                                                                         --1 Corinthians 2: 9