But Know That God Still Abides

Spring In The Valley

Willard Metcalf

1924

Sometimes we must walk in valleys

Before we reach the peak,

And we often think of self alone

Before it's God we seek.

The stumbling blocks are many

As along life's paths we trod

But we can find a secure haven

In the arms of our loving God.

How can we face the vast unknown

And nights that are dark and long?

Without our God besides us

I'm sure things would go wrong.

Some days are bleak and dreary

And there is no sun to shine

But know that God still abides

Within your heart and mine.

No soul so ill, He cannot heal,

He can wash it white as snow.

If we make Him Master of our lives

Then His love in us will glow.

"God Loves Us"

A poem by

Shirley Hile Powell

Springtime in the Great Smoky Mountains

Clingman's Dome, Tennessee 

"Lord, You have been our dwelling place

and our refuge in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth

or ever You had formed and given birth

to the earth and the world,

even from everlasting to everlasting,

You are God."

Psalm 90:1-2