Why and How We Are Able...

Could we, without a God of grace

Be brave enough to face the foe

Or bear to drink life’s cup of woe

Or surrender when God says ‘no’?

Could we without a God of hope

Dare to embark on a new day

Where none but He can see the way

And we could not know what to pray?

 

Could we, without a God of love

Suffer life’s sorrows or its joy?

Or teach the tender girl or boy?

Or trust in what none can destroy?

Could we without a God of life

Begin to live or breathe at all?

How would we rise after we fall?

Or time be more than death’s dread pall?

Could we know grace, hope, love below

Without this One true God? No, no!

© Janet Martin