Hello, Fellow-traveler, I'd Like to Inquire...

Hello, fellow-traveler, I’d like to inquire

What gives you the courage to climb ever higher?

What grants you the vim to resume undone task

Where yester-night you depleted fervor’s flask?

What gives you the get-up-and-go once again?

What drives you to doing what oft seems in vain?

Tell me, what rekindles the flame in your breast

Where yester-spark dwindled, snuffed by weariness?

And in spite of knowing that we cannot know

How, when or where life’s harsher tempests will blow

Tell me, what in spite of this draws you to rise

Forging ever forward toward life’s demise?

Hello, fellow-traveler, tell me if you can

What persuades you to the pursuit of a plan?

What bids you anew to avenues of sod?

Tell me, could it be the loving grace of God?

© Janet Martin

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, 

slow to anger, 

abounding in love and faithfulness.

Ps.86:15