When Mortal Woe The Will of Courage Tries...

When mortal woe the will of courage tries

And forces us to think of more than This

When we look at our hands and realize

How small and dependent their Doing is

When time, as its slips by beneath the sun

(The way that it has always done, and yet)

We start to see, in seasons as they run

Like rivers full of leaf, to summer’s set

… and Something we cannot attain, but strain

Toward, the way hungering man will do

Because we want assurance to sustain

Us in life’s compromises we pass through

When grope-grope-groping, the heart longs for song

But cannot find the notes to fit the tongue

When hope-hope-hoping we try to be strong

But hope needs more than hope to lean upon

When mortal woe the will of courage tries

And forces us to think of more than This

Oh, pray that we may come to realize

Hope’s absolute assurance of God IS

© Janet Martin

 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

 In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope 

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Pet.1:3

We can never understand God's ways fully,

But Here are glimpses of who He is...

(Follow the link, then follow the links to each word) 

Love the third-fourth line in this song...

'what more can he say than to you He hath said? 

To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled!'

...another fav by Fernando