strength inside
STRENGTH INSIDE
Prayer is like a gentle breeze,
Whispering through stately trees,
Making words, chants and songs
Echoing the whole day long
Like wishes made on bended knees.
Prayer is like a summer sun,
Beating down, while children run
To laugh and play, to run and chase
Each other all around this place,
Secure in warmth of love from One.
Prayer is like a winter snow,
Floating down with glistening glow.
Each flake different than the other
Will give chances to discover
Worth in things we did not know
At times the weeds will spread way out.
The farmer knows to use his clout,
Or wheat will never have a chance
To bear its seeds on all the plants.
The farmer must determined be
To make the food for you and me.
The question comes ‘bout knowing how
To tell which way is right, right now.
Is now the time to stop and quit
Or standing firm, “I’ll not submit!”?
The only way we can decide
Is listening to our Strength inside.
©Lynnette Schuepbach, October 6, 1992