Saturday Poetry Corner: Let Us Give Thanks

 

 

 "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
(Colossians 3:17)

 

 

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 For the courage which comes when we call,

While troubles like hailstones fall;

For the help that is somehow nigh,

In the deepest night when we cry;

For the path that is certainly shown

When we pray in the dark alone,

Let us give thanks.

For the knowledge we gain if we wait

And bear all the buffets of fate;

For the vision that beautifies sight

If we look under wrong for the right;

For the gleam of the ultimate goal

That shines on each reverent soul:

Let us give thanks. 

For the consciousness stirring in creeds

That love is the thing the world needs;

For the cry of the travailing earth

That is giving a new faith birth;

For the God we are learning to find

In the heart and the soul and the mind:

Let us give thanks. 

For the growth of the spirit through pain,

Like a plant in the soil and the rain;

For the dropping of needless things

Which the sword of a sorrow brings;

For the meaning and purpose of life

Which dawns on us out of the strife:

Let us give thanks.

For the solace that comes to our grief

In knowing earth's season is brief;

For the certitude given by faith

Of the continents out beyond death;

For the glorious thought that each day

Is speeding us thereward away:

Let us give thanks.

 

 "Let Us Give Thanks"
(1919)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
(1850-1919)
American author and poetess