January 27, 2012

This Too Will Pass Away

If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is,
Or how dark the moment may be—
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all my world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge, God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me—
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too----
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear—
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.

~ Helen Steiner Rice

Psalm 30:5 “For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

Psalm 119:71 “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.”