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The Difference

 

 

 

 

 

I got up early one morning

 

and rushed right into the day.

 

I had so much to accomplish

 

that I didn’t have time to pray.

 

Problems 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 gray and bleak;

 

I wondered why God didn’t show me.

 

He said, “But you didn’t seek.”

 

I tried to come into God’s presence;

 

I used all my keys at the lock.

 

God gently and lovingly chided,

 

“My child, you didn’t knock.”

 

I woke up early this morning,

 

And paused before entering the day;

 

I had so much to accomplish

 

That I had to take time to pray

 


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