We eat, we work, we shop, we run around, and we tire. We get physically weary. We get emotionally weary. We get spiritually weary. And we wonder why our life seems to be going full speed ahead nowhere — aimlessly, pointlessly, recklessly.
I got up early one morning,
and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish,
I didn’t have time to pray.
Troubles just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
Why doesn’t God help me? I wondered.
He answered, “You didn’t ask.”
I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled on grey and bleak.
I called on the Lord for the reason,
He said, “You didn’t seek.”
The anonymous poet then wrote a little epilogue:
I woke up early one morning,
and paused before entering the day.
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.
“I had…
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