“Hold Fast,” read by Marcia N. Lynch.
Hold Fast
by Marcia N. Lynch
Faithful, mighty Humpback
Whose promises are true,
Swims with the humble barnacle
Who sticks to him like glue.
Touring through the ocean depths,
Rising to breach the dawn,
This small, unsightly barnacle
Goes where few have gone.
The glue is his confession
In the whale’s faithfulness.
And though he has no tail or fins,
He dives with righteousness.
About the Poet
Marcia N. Lynch’s experience as a storyteller comes from working as a children’s film editor and from having been written into the story of Christ’s redemption. She studied sculpture at Mount Holyoke College. Sculpting, like film editing, requires an artist to cut out anything that does not relate to the primary subject matter, and these two disciplines have honed her storytelling skills. Marcia lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband of 38 years and has three grown children. She surrendered to Christ in 1975.
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