Love's Beck and Call

Tis not in vain,

Life’s grief and pain

The Unknown road we trod

If twist-and-turn

Helps us to learn

Our utter need for God

The loss we share

The cross we bear

Is worth its weight of woe

If by its mien

We learn to lean

On He who loves us so

Tis not in vain

If what we gain

Transcends man’s numbered days

As what we learn

Bids us to turn

From proud and careless ways

Pity the one

When life is done

Who did not humbly heed

Love's beck and call

That bids us all

To reckon utter need

© Janet Martin

 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 

The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, 

who loved me and gave himself for me.

Gal.2:20