There Is A Way

It looks bad right now

Feels bad too

As bad as it ever has

Probably worse

I am tired

I’m beat up and sore and angry

I wish I had and it as good as Job

Nine months of suffering?

Ha!!

If only I had and it so good!!

We are talking decades here!!

But that is not the point

There is something beyond

A plan way bigger than that

I am a work in progress

Someone has me in his hands

Someone vast and beautiful

Someone timeless and infinite

A Master artist, a dreamer

A Maker of impossible dreams

Who knows how to shape a tool

Turning a jar on the wheel

Pounding a sword on the anvil

Someone with limitless vision

Someone with an eternal plan

He knows what he is doing

And I am and extension of him

All this is necessary

It doesn’t matter how much I hate it

All will be used in the end

To do something bold and daring

Glorious and eternal in scope

To stun all who will learn of it

In heaven and in earth

And bring glory to the King

These things require preparation

Arduous training, fine tuning

Hot refining fire

Yes, there is a Way

Through this valley dark

He is the Way

The One I know

The Master who has led me

Through many valleys before

I am ever learning

To know him and his ways

He is faithful and true

Always victorious

Brilliant in vision

Always right

And beautiful to the end

Mighty God!!

Worthy to be praised!!

Stephen Pursell, 5/4/15