I hold out for you in the calm and rain

I hold out for you in the calm and rain
What worry or fear or darkness or pain
Thy hand to guide my trembling heart
Thy way is sure thy motives pure

Lead me through the desert
And beyond past the rocks
And the wilderness
Where thy oasis
Is my song

Yet all along
The pathway
I find

Thy love
Thy joy
Thy respite
Beside

For all I have longed
Hath always
Been here

In dark
In storm
In fears
In scorn

Nowhere have I been
Thy self have not known
For all I have been
And before I was born

My life you have seen
As though a passing dream
Yet planned and provided
All along the way

Where doubts creep in
May they draw me closer
To you my soul longeth
Evermore

For she of whom I pray
And doubt and convey
Whether one day
Or never

You
Are forever
And no one
Else need I save you

Though desires
Delight may come
By first light

Ere wait I
Beside though
The storm may
Awhile

You shall never fade
When all deny
Still thee alone
Can I rely

So give me this heart
Though fleeting
In part

My words speak they true
Desire they only you
And what ere
Of earthly pleasures

There passing
A vapor
May I always
Be faithfully
Found
In you

-Joshua Lee Foist