The Ministry of Waiting

Each one of us does his own little part in carrying out God's great plan. If our part is to stand and wait, it is no less honourable than his who comes after us and takes up what fell from our hands and carries it on to completion. Said the blind Milton—

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

"The world comes to him that can wait," says the proverb; and victory comes, and rest comes, and God comes, and glory comes, to him that can wait.

In Green Pastures

J.R. Miller

Our Comfort in Sorrow

There is no book like the Bible for the sorrowful. It tells of the Comforter; it points to the perfect plan according to which God is working out our blessedness: it insists that all things are working together for good; it opens the vista of the blessed future, where all the grief and tears of men shall be put away for ever.

Don't Forget God's Blessings

Take comfort. We have nothing to fear for the future, unless we forget the way the Lord has led us in the past.   Proverbs 16:3

God's little book of CALM,

Richard Daly

The Solitary Way

Alas! How few may know the grace it takes
To tread the solitary way! Alone!
Ah, yes, alone! No other human heart
Can understand the nameless sorrows there—
The nights in weeping spent, and yet, when dawns
The day, to greet the world with radiant smile,
And scatter sunshine while you whisper low
To your poor heart, "Canst bear a little more?"
Alone! Poor heart, and dost thou question, Why?
Dost think it strange that thou must walk this way?
Ah, no! Thou dost but follow in His steps
Who went before, and of the other people there
Was none with Him! Alone? Yet not alone—
Hath not thy blessed Lord and Master said,
"My presence shall go with thee"? Ah, my soul,
No longer, then, a solitary way!

Poems of the Way