"A word fitly spoken is like
apples of gold in pictures of silver"
Proverbs 16:24

IF
Author - ©Helen Steiner Rice

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 the 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 of 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.