These are two song titles from an album entitled Love Broke Thru by Philip Keaggy.

DISAPPOINTMENT: Lyrics-anonymous. Music arrangement-Phil Keaggy:

Disappointment – HIS appointment, change one letter, Then I see, that the thwarting of my purpose is God’s better choice for me. His appointment must be blessing, though it may come in disguise. For the end from the begging, open to His wisdom lies.

Disappointment – HIS appointment, whose? The Lord’s who loves me best, Understands and knows me fully, Who my faith and love would test. For like loving, earthly parent, He rejoices when He knows, That His child accepts unquestioned all that from His wisdom flows.

Disappointment – HIS appointment, No good thing will He withhold, from denials oft we gather, treasures of His love untold. Well He knows each broken purpose leads to fuller deeper trust, and the end of all His dealings, proves our God is wise and just.

Disappointment -HIS appointment, Lord I take it then as such, like the clay in hands of potter yielding wholly to Thy touch, all my life’s plan is thy molding, not one single choice be mine, Let me answer unrepining Father not my will but THINE. Matthew 26: 36-42; Mark 14:32-35; Luke 22:39-44; 2 Corinthian 4:5-18; 12:1-10; Hebrews 11; 12:1-13; 1 Peter 4:12-19.

AS THE RUIN FALLS: From the poem by C.S Lewis. Musical Arrangement by Philip Keaggy.

All this flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through; I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.

Peace, reassurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin; I talk of love – A scholar’s parrot may talk Greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack, I see the chasm; And everything You are was making my heart into a bridge by which I might get back from exile, and grown man. And now the bridge is breaking.

For this I bless You as the ruin falls. The pains You give me are more precious than all other gains. Isaiah 61:1-4; Luke 4:14-21; 16:19-31; Jeremiah 29:1-14; 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2; Philippians 3:7-16.