Ever thought, "Why is there so much evil in the world? Why is there confusion instead of clarity? Why... do I have to live in a world where I'm bound to sin?" Though I am unable of myself to answer these questions—I can assure you that our Heavenly Father can answer you. I hope that not the words I speak (there are plenty of errors), but that Spirit which the Father imparts to every "humble seeker of happiness," may testify to you of what's good and true.

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Not a Test

By Isaac R. Lee

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Let not thy dreams be enemy

To what dreams’ purpose fulfillment be

For interpretation creator’s key

Disclosure’s secret poetry

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The road of sin and sad decay

A path not swathed in nobility

So prov’d not only source of pain

But realized sun for cause of rain

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Such depth attain’d by paths not straight

When straitness lone could ne’er repay

That mortal burden: Eternal pain

A Savior’s crowning anguish strain

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And so discovered I this shame

My self-crowned Madonna unworthy the name

I beheld again, Ethel Traverse

A life ne’er lived to commit a verse

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Destroying dreams: reality

Escape the shadow of the day

Thus drew dark’ning dusk for one

So another could behold the sun

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That Resurrection: love once lost

In life’s experience now embossed

So could the Phoenix its birth attain

By destruction of its former flame

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And then, O smile! Wilt thou not ever depart?

Such joy be naught but heaven’s art

So found I Venus’ sweet reprise

Sweeter still through heaven’s eyes

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Let not thy dreams be enemy

To what dreams’ purpose fulfillment be

And what is that but life and love

Crowned by God above

00:00 Intro

00:40 How I Came to Write This

02:00 So Much Evil in the World

04:04 Reading of the Poem

06:10 Thanks

06:47 Brief Interpretation

08:37 My Prayer for You