After Failure
The careful, unremitting work I did has not availed. I gave my best to one large task, And now I know I failed. Today I’ll do the little things, The things I can do best. I’ll do the little, easy things And give my heart a rest. A dozen little things, well done, Will lighten […]
The One-Talent Man
A trusting eager child, he was derided, Made shrinkingly aware of lack of worth When one he loved rejected work he prided Himself on, and he hid it in the earth. So later, entrusted with one precious thing, He his it lest he lost it, for he fearer. He bears his punishment; and time will […]
Answer
Full half a hundred times I’ve sobbed I can’t go on, I can’t go on. And yet, full half a hundred times I’ve hushed my sobs and gone. My answer, it you ask me how, May seem presumptuously odd, But I think that what kept going on When I could not, was God. –From Halfway […]