Heart Gifts....series

The Way to God

 

If my days were untroubled

and my heart always light

Would I seek that fair land

where there is no night;

If I never grew weary

with the weight of my load

Would I search for God's Peace

at the end of the road

If I never knew sickness

and never felt pain

Would I reach for a hand

to help and sustain;

If I walked not with sorrow

and lived without loss

Would my soul seek sweet solace

at the foot of the cross;

IF all I desire was mine

day by day

Would I kneel before God

and earnestly pray;

If God sent no "Winter"

to freeze me with fear

Would I yearn for the warmth

of "Spring" every year;

I ask myself this

and the answer is plain-

If my life were all pleasure

and I never knew pain

I'd seek God less often

and need Him much less,

For God's sought more often

in times of distress,

And no one knows God

or sees Him as plain

As those who have met Him

on 'The Pathway of Pain."

~ Helen Steiner Rice