God's Wrote A Book

Have you heard,

Do you know?

There's a rumor,

God's wrote a book!

Will it be about romance,

Thrill or mystery?

Or even intrigue

With a dash of history!

No no, none of these!

God's a serious Man,

So it must be factual,

Deadpan, sober, serious.

Are you sure?

Did He not make man,

Of differing humors?

Surely there is more!

Common to all men,

It must be then.

Yet, without equal it be too,

Since it bears the Maker's mark

Wait, what kind of God

Puts His thoughts

In paper and pen

Subject to petty men?

So very many

Schools of thought

Too many to know

Who really is God

Everyone's got a say

But really, what does God say?

So have you heard,

God's wrote a book!

Read it and then you'll see.

He prevails!

Two years ago, the Lord called me to push for a change in what was well-established, to carry a vision for a future He first envisioned. Today, as I completed LTC '15, I realized that the vision has come to fruition. Perhaps it was always my apprehension that halted the progress, but the Lord is an Almighty God and I believe He prevails in all things.

LTC has found its preferred form and mode of operation on the mainland, able to achieve its original objectives and fits the current school climate. For this, I thank the Lord for His original idea, put in my heart as a refusal to believe that an idea as powerful as "Lead, Train, Conquer" had to be limited to an offshore island, or that a vision as meaningful as "Come as a Boy, Leave as a Man" needed a wilder, more forested environment. Thank you, Lord, I am immensely grateful.

Now to the Lord, who is able to cause hope to arise in times of hopelessness, and His glory to shine even in the darkest places! He is able, He will prevail! There is indeed none like the Lord, Creator of all, Sovereign of the universe! Bless His name, for He is good, and His love endures forever!

Postscript: When I wrote this post, I hadn't imagined that I would see the vision come to pass before I passed on the torch. 

When God Wants To Drill A Man

When God wants to drill a man,

And thrill a man,

And skill a man

When God wants to mold a man

To play the noblest part;

When He yearns with all His heart

To create so great and bold a man

That all the world shall be amazed,

Watch His methods, watch His ways!

How He ruthlessly perfects

Whom He royally elects!

How He hammers him and hurts him,

And with mighty blows converts him

Into trial shapes of clay which

Only God understands;

While his tortured heart is crying

And he lifts beseeching hands!

How He bends but never breaks

When his good He undertakes;

How He uses whom He chooses,

And which every purpose fuses him;

By every act induces him

To try His splendor out-

God knows what He’s about.

– Anonymous