WAIT

By Grace Noll Crowell

 

If but one message I may leave behind,

One single word of courage for my kind,

 

It would be this---Oh, brother, sister, friend,

Whatever life may bring, What God may send,

 

No matter whether clouds lift soon or late,

Take heart and wait.

 

Despair may tangle darkly at your feet,

Your faith dimmed, and hope, once cool and sweet,

 

Be lost; but suddenly above a hill,

A heavenly lamp, set on a heavenly sill,

 

Will shine for you and point the way to go,

How well I know.

 

For I have waited through the dark, and I

Have seen a star rise in the blackest sky,

 

Repeatedly---it has not failed me yet.

And I have learned God never will forget,

 

To light his lamp. If we but wait for it,

It will be lit.

 

(Ruby notes " I found this in one of my mother’s scrap books a couple years after she and my late sister died and it gave me a lift and I read it and re-read it and know its committed to memory and still it gives me hope!")