Try As We May

 Truly touching articles in this latest issue of Rural Route!
Thank-you to everyone who allowed us a peek into your lives/hearts!
It really does remind us to remember those with heavy, daily crosses to bear!
Many of our other 'local heroes' are not featured in these articles and we remember you as well...
I was startled to realize within a five miles radius from our home are four husbands/dads living the remainder of their lives in wheel-chairs!
 (Wayne Martin, Doug Weber and Ralph Martin besides Robert who is the Front Cover photo)
...our hearts and prayers go out to them, their wives/families!

Below is part of the story from a young girl who is watching as her friends get driver's licenses. etc...
(Esp. touching to me as my niece is one of her faithful friends)

Warning; paragraph below may cause tear-flow💕

Some things we suffer will not go away

Nothing will alter it; try as we may

Still, not for nothing, the trouble life sends

This binds us nearer to fam’ly and friends

This shines the light of Love’s beam, true and dear

This ushers pity of God through each tear

This teaches us through the Yielding of Plan

 Of a Creator much greater than man

Who knows the mind of God? Not you or me

Who knows what trial is waiting to be?

But this we rest in; no matter the test

God, rich in mercy allows what is best

Man, poor in spirit will be Heaven-blessed

Man who is mourning will be comforted

Man who is meek will inherit the earth

Faith waits until fulfillment bares its Worth

Try as we may we are not in control

God is the Giver of body and soul

He, our Father loves us, one and all

Tender, the Mender of Man and The Fall

He, through His suffering and by His death

Brings to man’s suffering, hope in each breath

So we rejoice as we trust in the Lord

Heaven is waiting with sorrow’s reward

© Janet Martin

 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness."
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,
so that Christ's power may rest on me.
2 Cor.12:9