Hiding Place

Engulf and surround me

Love of God astound me

Hide me in Your glory

Love of God restore me

How can it be?

Oh the sweet sweet love of God

The sweet sweet love of God

Set my heart on ----

Nothing else satisfies

You promised to fulfill it

Fill my heart and soul and eyes

You are my hiding place

My shelter from the storm

In your abiding grace

I find my hiding place

I will never quit praying

Change the fallow ground to hallowed ground

Song of deliverance

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven

You forgive the stains of my sin

The guilt has been absolved

You are my hiding place

Anthony Foster

November 14, 2015
Picture by Kim Mosley, my colleague at STLCCFV

Burn Away

Burn away the darkness that blinds us

Burn away the darkness that binds us

Covered by the blood

Seared by the light

Washed in living water

Wielding ONE sacrifice

Purified by Spirit Fire

Branded in the Book of Life

Until Christ is our one desire

For there is only Christ

Burn away the dross of life

Consume my sacrifice

Burn away, burn away

Burn away the darkness that blinds us

Burn away the darkness that binds us

Anthony Foster

November 15, 2015

Hallelujah! There is light!

We who sat in darkness now see

How the darkness surely flees

From His piercing burning gaze

The Sonrise from on High we praise

The glory of the Lord’s revealed

In the suffering Servant hope is sealed

The One who came to bear our sin

Now takes on Flesh –so it begins

Hallelujah! There is light!

A light to follow in the night

A star, a star to guide our way

Arise and shine and hope and pray!

The promised seed has come to Earth

The sovereign Lord who brings new birth

Is born now to become like us

So we could know the God we trust

Hallelujah! There is light!

A light to follow in the night

A star, a star to guide our way

Arise and shine and hope and pray!

Hallelujah! There is light!

A light to follow in the night

A star, a star to guide our way

Arise and shine and hope and pray!

December 8, 2015

Anthony Foster

I just finished working on the first draft of the documentation for my sister in law's application for the DAR and in the process was edified and my mind directed toward the social events of my family that have shaped its  character through the centuries. As a tribute, here are the thirty Patriots (15 Smith/15 Foster) in our Smith and Foster lines:

John Anthony

Ignatius Brashears

Charles Broughton

Michael Carpenter

John Cecil

Job Curtis

Henry Hart

John Marshall

William Mattingly

Samuel McCune

Jacob Mooney

Lewis Richards

Stephen Roby

Randolph Slack

Thomas Stafford

Enoch Stone

John Stone

Butler Stonestreet

John Summers

Bennett Thompson

Stith Thompson

Richard Tunstall

William Tunstall

Wynant Van Der Poel

James Wait

Thomas Weakley

William Whitledge

Mandley Winstead

Samuel Winstead
William Wyatt

Interestingly, our direct Smith and Foster ancestors were born too early or late for actively engaging in the conflict.