TAKING TIME FOR PRAYER

HAPPY EASTER (view of altar in chapel)

 

THE  DIFFERENCE   ( a poem by Grace L. Naessens)

 

I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day;

I had so much to accomplish,  I didn't have time to pray.

 

Problems just tumbled about me and grew heavier with each task;

Why doesn't God help me, I wondered; He answered:  "You didn't ask."

 

I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak;

I wondered why God didn't show me -- He said,  "But you didn't seek."

 

I tried to come into God's presence;  I used all my keys at the lock;

God gently and lovingly chided,  "My child,  you didn't knock."

 

I woke up early this morning and paused before entering the day;

I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray.