New Every Morning

 

"It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed
because His tender compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great
and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:22-23)

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Yea, "new every morning," though we may awake,

Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache;

With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand,

With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned;

With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex,

With new problems rising, our minds to perplex;

In ways long familiar, in paths yet untrod,

Oh, new every morning the mercies of God!

His faithfulness fails not; it meets each new day

With guidance for every step of the way;

New grace for new trials, new trust for old fears,

New patience for hearing the wrongs of the years,

New strength for new burdens, new courage for old,

New faith for whatever the day may unfold;

As fresh for each need as the dew on the sod;

Oh, new every morning are the mercies of God!

"New Every Morning"
Annie Johnson Flint
(1866-1932)
American Christian poetess