Description: The emotional experience of the Christian is usually a mixture of sorrow and joy, pleasure and pain, hope and discouragement, peace and turmoil. This full range of emotional experience is common to God's people and is plentifully recorded in Scripture. These poems span the range of that experience in the life of their author, D. E. Young. The aim of this collection is to provide comfort--drawn from Biblical words--for those in distress, offering hope by remembering that our God will bring His people through both the difficult and delightful providences that we face until we cross...

""Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,"" writes the apostle. In this collection of poetry, the author applies those phrases, responding to Gods sometimes-dark providences with the light of Scriptural meditation. The manifold themes of the inspired Psalms shine out, giving endurance to those who wait for the Lords deliverances, expressing a longing for justice to those who are confronted by Gods enemies, interceding for mercy to those who are lost, and rejoicing in a salvation that is ever new. Throughout the pages a hope shines, knowing that as God comforts his disciple in any...