| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 13 |
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Thus we get hints of the graciousness of the divine thoughtfulness in giving us time in periods of little days which we can easily get through with, and not in great years in which we would faint and fall by the way.
It makes it possible for us to go on through all the long years and not be overwrought, for we never have given to us at any one time more than what we can do between the morning and the evening. George Klingle has put this in striking form:
God broke our years to hours and days,
That hour by hour, and day by day,
Just going on a little way,
We might be able all along to keep quite strong.
Should all the weight of life
Be laid across our shoulders and the future rife
With woe and struggle, meet us face to face
At just one place,
We could not go;
Our feet would stop; and so
God lays a little on us every day;
And never, I believe, on all the way
Will burdens bear so deep,
Or pathways lie so threatening and so steep,
But we can go, if by God’s power
We only bear the burden of the hour.
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