Faith

I have not forgotten my promise from the last post to upload my poem, but that isn't the poem I am doing tonight. 
This evening I was looking ahead towards some big changes coming up in my life, and I realized that I was feeling just a hint of fear about the uncertainty of my future, and that that fear was quickly growing.  As soon as I noticed this, I remember something that a religious teacher of mine, and a man whom I highly respect, has often said.  To paraphrase, he says that fear and faith cannot both exist in the same body at the same time; one will expel the other. 
As I thought on this principle, a couple of lines appeared in my mind.  I was driving, and could not write them down, so I repeated them out-loud to myself until I could get a pen and paper.
Then my thoughts turned to my poor, neglected audience, whom I have not paid proper attention to, and here we are.  I know this isn't your average topic for a poem, and that my words are few and simple, but I know they are true.

Let fear not hold my heart,
nor lay claim to my soul;
faith shall be my lighthouse,
my trust in God e'er full.

I shall not e'er give way
to my soul's enemy;
faith leaves no room for fear -
my Lord my Guide shall be.

With all fear cast behind,
I shall not it recall;
my eyes look but one way -
to my Captain, my all!

David Jamison