Embrace Pure Joy

 James 1:2-4

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,

[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds,

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, 

not lacking anything.

He Hideth My Soul 

Embrace pure joy 

Ahoy, ahoy 

God’s grace is not 

Some moot decoy 

But rends the dark 

As we embark 

And press toward 

Victory’s mark 

His hope, 

The anchor of the soul 

While waves of want 

And wonder roll 

Beneath the toll 

Of day-to-day 

That draws Time’s 

Fleeting charge away 

In little barges 

on a sea 

that pours into 

eternity 

© Janet Martin