NEVER ALONE II

You’re sad and broken-hearted,
And you feel you’ve been betrayed,
And you seek to find the reason in
Mistakes that you have made.

Your world is toppling over,
And you watch the pieces fly,
Because you’re helpless to prevent it,
No matter how you cry.

No man who ever lived has strength
Enough to stand alone,
And everything we have today,
Tomorrow may be gone.

So that is why no matter what,
Take care what you’re about,
No happiness can ever come
From shutting Jesus out.

Each of us learns from failure,
To rise each time we fall,
This is the only way that life
Makes any sense at all.

It takes a lot of straining,
To walk that extra mile,
But nothing’s free, we have to work
For everything worthwhile.

So do not weep for yesterday, That you cannot recall,
And know within your heart, the Lord
Is with you through it all.
Though human love is here today, And in a moment gone…
Who loves the Lord will always find
…He never walks alone.

Grace E. Easley
Poems of Joy
From the Salesian Collection