One Thing After Another

Lord, I don't understand
     the unrelenting pressures on my life:
A long period of not being well,
     and then a legal tangle,
And then the child whose life unravels
     before my very eyes.
I'm made of sturdy stuff
     but I confess I sometimes think
This is too much,
     this one thing right after another.

"Of course, it's one thing after another!
That is the way I mold My children's lives.
You could not bear the shaping tools
     all at a time.
They come one after another.
     Be glad!"

A note: I wrote this some years ago. The illness is long past, the legal situation is forgotten, the child weathered that crisis and several new ones. It is still true, though, that I face "one thing right after another," just as you do, no doubt. Our God is just as faithful today as He has been in the past.

MaryMartha
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