BE NOT DISMAYED
Be not dismayed if you are overwhelmed
By loss that has no answer on its face,
Or grief that leaves your very life unhelmed,
Or rage that makes you, briefly, lost to grace.
The passion of the hour will pass away.
No turbulence can crest and hold for long
Our crises come to visit, not to stay
The heat of anger often cools to song.
The testing hours of danger, ruin, birth,
Or worsening disease that holds no hope,
Provide new concepts of our strength and worth;
And probe our tolerance, our depth, our scope.
The calmest life must have its ebb and flow.
We cannot function, drifting with the tide;
And we must have our crises, who would grow.
Bear faithfully the storm. It will subside.” Gerald F. Fisher
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