Oh in time that trying might turn to trusting

Oh in time that trying might turn to trusting
Such a will is rusting within
For its illusion tis muddled in sin

None but grace
Can bring one to the place
Where all wills are broken
And anew is born
Something quite beyond
Mere imagination

The divine descends
Enters in and devours
The destruction
Once wrought by sin

And opens the heart
To its glorious art
That at last
Would turn to Him

So may this
Oft tortured heart
Be broken in part
And restored
To richer and fuller
Life

May these idols be broken
And cast aside
Remove the pride
Which so oft
In me hide

Humble instead
For truth through trial
Transforms the thoughts
And turns to trusting
No matter the cost

For though the price is great
The former fate
Far worse than one can extrapolate

And so all striving shall cease
When one shall release
Their will to thine alone
So shall they find
Their one true home

-Joshua Lee Foist

Tis an amazed thing

Tis an amazed thing 
How men make asses
Of themselves 
Over mere attraction

The reaction
Is a faction
That flourishes
In folly

Yea but oh
Thee doubleminded
How kindness
Doth quickly change

When attractions
Are lost
But count thee the cost
Thy price is great

Mere man would 
Succumb to hate
Or rather debate
Than show kindness to all
Whether great or small

And so surprised
Are they
Who but
Play in the sand

For soon
The tide
Doth wash away
All that may man hide

And carry to sea
Thy secrets
But not easily
Lost are they

Twill return
Time and again
As the tide
So turns
In the hearts
Of men

-Joshua Lee Foist

Joy of the divine

Joy of the divine
Comest near and be mine
Fill within heart
Thine illuminating art

Shine between shadow
That which stretches
One's gaze
Through the seemly unending haze

So then bring brighter days
To fill in these darkened dreams
Long hath my heart
Sought for some part

Art of humanity
Mindless insanity
Speak through my frailty
And guide me to thy truth

Prove within question
All that deception
Hath doddled away
And reveal (I pray)
Thy brightest array
That may shine through decay
And draw me away

Ah come now sheer bliss
And givest thine divined kiss
Renew and restore
What hath been once before

Do not ignore
Despite this plight
I abhor
Bring then forevermore
Thy truth
Come knocking a'door

So earnestly eagerly
Desiring me
Despite all depravity
Dust away the clay
In the cavity

And parish in me
All that would flee
From thee

Grow in me
Thy gift of eternity
Living in love
And humility

Bearing thy burden
Beyond earthly ability
All for the one
Who breathes life
Into everyone

-Joshua Lee Foist

Come now awakening rays of day

Come now awakening rays of day
Come and wash me in thy luminous light
Cast away the shadows of night
And fill me with thy warmth

Laten eve and early morn
Draw me to thy sun
Shine on me
And in me light
What fires near
Have fled at night

Increase thy strength
Within my heart
Make us as one
Ne'er apart

For though what shadows
And clouds might
Steal me away
From thy surround ray
May I not be caught up with them

Let thy warmth entangle me
From skin and soul
Take full control
Of these failing faculties of mind

Little good do I find
When midnight approach
And the moon is high
Oft enraptured I
In some darkened deed
Where I am drawn away
From thy sunlit way

Return to me
Thy fires which burn
Teach me that I might learn
Yes yearn within me
Thy desires
For thy light
Doth lead me
To all ways right

So may I be found
Pleasing in thy sight
Sundressed in thy holy light

-Joshua Lee Foist