Faith is a Fortress by Helen Steiner Rice

…make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.   2 Peter 1:5-7

We look ahead through each changing year

With mixed emotions of

Hope and fear.

Hope for the peace we long have sought,

Fear that our hopes

will come to naught…

Unwilling to trust in the Father’s will,

We count on our logic and shallow skill

And, in our arrogance and pride,

Man is no longer satisfied

To place his confidence and love

With childlike faith

in God above…

But tiny hands and tousled heads

That kneel in prayer by little beds

Are closer to the dear Lord’s heart

And of His Kingdom

more a part

Than we who search and never find

The answers to our questioning mind.

God give me (us) an unfailing confidence in You, a childlike trust in You, and a mature faith in Your teachings.

By Helen Steiner Rice

~ by letlightshine on January 13, 2009.