Let ere the silence speak

Let ere the silence speak

What words our hearts

Would long to seek

Of trials and trimmers

That trouble our members

Come taste of this

Thy healing ways

Come along the winds

Of anxious days

The groanings of our frail fears

That wander to and fro amidst the years

Only this our prayers do know

Thee will ever feed our souls

When all our strength be gone

And in faith and fear we look upon

Thy ways unsure

Yet sure remain

For thou hast felt

And carried our pain

Deep calls the drought 

Of these seeds of doubt 

Yet hope prolongs

This pilgrim tune

Where time shall prove

Our fear remove

When faith shall 

Pass through fear

And doubt

Shall calm the seas

Of raging misery 

And peace

Becomes our one

Release when all

Our ways surrender 

To this thy one

And greatest splendor

Thy joy thy trial

Hath borne

On our behalf

For joy awakens

In the deepest 

Depths of our demise

And looks us full and free

In the eyes 

There is no fear in this

For love hath caught us

And spared us of our loneliness

-Joshua Lee Foist