Heart Gifts....series

"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