Daily Thoughts For Daily Needs (Helen Steiner Rice)

If we put our problems in God’s hands

There is nothing we need understand

It is enough to just believe

That what we need we will receive.

           

Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain 

Teardrops and laughters, pleasure and pain

We can’t have all bright days but it’s certainly true

There was never a cloud that the sun didn’t shine throu 

        

The more you love, the more you’ll find,

That life is good and friends are kind

For only what we give away

Enriches us from day to day.  

Often we stand at life’s crossroads

And view what we think is the end

But God has a bigger vision

And he tells us it’s “only a bend”.

           

Everything is by comparison

Both the bitter and the sweet

And it takes a bit of both of them

To make our life complete.

           

Oh make us more aware, dear God

Of little daily graces

That come to us with “sweet surpriese”

From “never-dreamed-of places!”

           

We can’t pluck a rose

All fragrant with dew

Without part of the fragance

Remaining on you.

           

God never sends the winter

Without the joy of spring

And though today your heart may “cry”

Tomorrow it will “sing”.

           

(Helen Steiner Rice)