How little we know what God has in store
as daily he blesses our lives more and more.
I've lived many years and I've learned many things,
But today I have grown new spiritual wings...
For pain has a way of broadening our view
And bringing us closer in sympathy, too,
To those who are living in constant pain
And trying somehow to bravely sustain
The faith and endurance to keep on trying
When they almost welcome the peace of dying...
Without this experience I would have lived and died
Without fathoming the pain of Christ crucified,
For none of us knows what pain is all about
Until our spiritual wings start to sprout.
So thank you, God, for the gift you sent
To teach me that pain's Heaven- sent.
Helen Steiner Rice
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