When life bears you down <br />And your feet are heavy <br />When your heart is crushed <br />And the grinding relentless <br />How would you respond? <br /> <br />In your tearful warbling <br />In the tasking dale of life <br />Would you clutch to Him <br />In your bawling surrender <br />To reverberate His honor? <br /> <br />In your struggles and tears <br />Would your life extol Him? <br />In the depth of affliction <br />Would His praise ring out <br />And declare His goodness? <br /> <br />If the world maligns you <br />And if the hurt is intense <br />Keep in mind this truth <br />That out of that graveyard <br />Sprouts a glorious Easter lily<br /><br />Oyekake Satty (O. S.) Joshua<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/being-crushed-for-glory/
