In Dreams ● (Job 33:12-33) In vision and in dreams, at night to men He speaks: “turn back!” On their beds of pain, He calls them by name, “turn back!” One steps into the breach. In ransom He pleads, “turn back!” ● (Daniel 8:9-13, Psalm 89:38-52, Psalm 13) How long will we be trampled and be overcome and the truth be flung to the ground? Oh Lord, remember what vanity our short lives are. Who can deliver from death their own soul? How long? How long until you come? How long will you hide? How long will it be until your will is done on the earth as it is in heaven? Oh Lord, remember the promise you swore by your name and rescue your people from out of the flames. How long? How long until you come? How long will you hide? How long? How long until you come? How long will you hide forever? ● (Psalm 90, Zephaniah 1, Amos 5:18-20, Zechariah 14, Matthew 24, Isaiah 2, Isaiah 6, Revelation 14, 19) Teach us, Oh Lord, to number our days. Teach us, Oh Lord, to number our days that a heart of wisdom we may gain. Teach us, Oh Lord to number our days. Help us, oh Lord, to wait for the end. Help us, oh Lord, to wait for the end. That our trouble may not be in vain, teach us, oh Lord, to number our days. There is a day that justice will arise, and though we’ve waited, it takes all by surprise. No more delay like lightning across the sky. Touch the earth and mountain divides, the mountain divides. They see the sign and all the people mourn. Watch the Son we’ve all been waiting for, arise. Arise. Arise. Arise. Who can understand the fear that is due your name? Who can stand before you, face to face, under your gaze? How will we survive the God who is a consuming fire? How will we survive when even your whispers still terrify us? May I bow even lower now before that day. May I bow even lower now before that day. There is a day that God knows of alone. A day of darkness when the Kingdom will come, the Kingdom will come. They gather in the valley to decide. The grapes of wrath already ripe, already ripe. Birds of prey assemble for the feast. Just one word and there’s left just one King. Arise! Arise! Arise! Arise! ● (Matthew 16:24-28) Dear life, am I holding on to dear life like a drowning man who clings with all his might to anything before his eyes? Am I ready? Am I ready to die? Am I ready to die? Am I ready to die? ● (Isaiah 65:17-25, Mark 10:13-16, Revelation 21-22) Will we all be children there and lead the lion without a care? Will we all then find the time to hear together the nursery rhyme and finally feel we have become our Father’s daughters, our Father’s sons? Hold me close and Kingdom come. Will we still know how to blush or find again blissful ignorance? Will we all then learn to trust and gain again all that we lost and forget everything wrong and sing again the simple songs? Hold me close and Kingdom come. ● (Proverbs 18:24, John 15, 1 Corinthians 3:22-23, Romans 8:38-39) I feel as though I spend too much of my time always chasing memories instead of opening my eyes. It seems as though I had a friend all along; I just didn’t recognize. He’s saying, “Give all your heart to me, and I will give you mine. All that I have is yours, and you are mine. Give all your heart to me, and I will give you mine. All that I have is yours, and you are mine. Give all your heart to me, beloved, and I will give you mine. All that I have is yours, and you are mine for all time, the ocean wide, unending love, the stars above.” Hold me close and Kingdom come.