2013/12/04 – Devotional
Spiritual Lesson From Pain
By: Helen Steiner Rice
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.
04
Dec
Dad,
This is a good one. It’s hard to look at pain as Heaven sent but it is.
Love you.
Mike
This was a very beautiful but sad poem.
This was a very good devotional. Thank you for it!
-Amada
It is so difficult to see when it is happening to me. Thank God for allowing me to see His cup as HALF FULL, I just need to fill it the rest of the way