Tuesday, October 20, 2009

IN SECRET

IN SECRET (Matthew 6:6; Alma 33:7)

How merciful (when we approach
In confidential prayer)
Our Father is – He blesses us
In Providential care.

When we are in the wilderness,
He turns our enemies.
In field, or house, or secret hour,
He hears our earnest pleas.

He raises up a healing type,
That we may live and see
(If we but cast our eyes in faith)
An everlasting Tree.

The springs of perfect love He grants
Will make our burdens light.
All this is ours if we will kneel
Before the Source of Life.

(20 October 2009, Tuesday, Pleasant Grove, Utah)

2 comments:

Dallin said...

I like this one.

Cynthia Hallen said...

Thank you! My friend said that she likes the way the parentheses iconically point to secret prayer. I had not thought of that -- I was just trying to set off the syntax.