Blessings

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Blessings

 

I knelt to pray when day was done

And prayed, " O Lord, bless everyone,

Lift from each saddened heart the pain

And let the sick be well again.

 

And then I woke another day

And carelessly went on my way,

The whole day long I did not try

To wipe a tear from any eye.

 

I did not try to share the load

Of any brother on the road.

I did not even go to see

The sick man just next door to me.

 

Yet once again when day was done

I prayed, " O Lord, bless everyone. "

But as I prayed, into my ear

there came a voice that whispered clear,

" Pause now, my son, before you pray.

 

Whom have you tried to bless today?

Gods sweetest blessing always go

by hands that serve him here below.

And then I hid my face and cried,

" Forgive me, God, I have not tried,

But let me live another day

and I will live the way I pray. "