Life's Journey With God

Jeanette McMillan writes in this poem of a life's journey with God:

My plans were made, I thought my path all

bright and clear,

My heart with songs o'erflowed, the world

seemed full of cheer.

My Lord I wished to serve, to take Him for

my Guide,

To keep so close that I could feel Him by my

side;

And so I traveled on.

But suddenly, in skies so clear and full of

light.

The clouds came thick and fast, the day

seemed changed to night.

Instead of paths so clear and full of things

so sweet,

Rough things, and thorns, and stones seemed

all about my feet,

I scarce could travel on,

I bowed my head and wondered why this

change should come.

And murmured, "Lord, is this because of

aught I've done?

Has not the past been full enough of pain

and care?

Why should my path again be changed to

dark from fair?"

But still I traveled on.

I listened - quiet and still, there came a voice:

"This path is mine, not thine; I made the

choice.

Dear child, this service will be best for thee

and me

If thou wilt simply trust and leave the end

with me."

And so we travel on.