You smiled at me and the fires
Begin to rise from the sunken
Depths of deep darkness, which
Was once the marrow of my heart

My inner spirit you lifted upward
Making me to become a whole man
While your hand reshaped the clay
Coloring my world with new life,
New change

My heart no longer sings the sinful
Dismal songs of darkened death.
For you found me and took my chains
Away freeing me from that enemy

You gave my heart a wholesome
And soothing song to sing, one that
Would serenade your ears each day with
Beautiful breathtaking songs of  praise

While imparting into my body the handsome
Gift of your treasured spirit, whom is priceless
And so very unique, as new life was laid out
Before me, and the last grasp of the old
One of self was cast into an eternal grave
So very far away

I would have been so lost still choking on
The vines of sin, strangling on ever single
Breath in its dark pit where sinners find
Themselves sharing a self made world on
A endless road of pain and suffering,
If not for your blessing of pure salvation
And it’s forgiving grace

My new path of life leads daily to only you,
Every brilliant morning when the sun rises,
Every afternoon, and every night where
Moments are spent happily with only you,
Praising you with heartfelt prayers while
Being renewed by the power of your living word

And the imperfect life I once embraced has
Become a memory, for my life has been
Saved so wholesomely by my anchor and my
Rock.  For I have embraced His eternal promise
Of salvation and eternal love.

Wendell A. Brown,
November 1976,
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‘WE HAVE THIS HOPE AS AN ANCHOR FOR THE SOUL, FIRM AND SECURE’. HEBREWS, 6:19, NIV.