Be cheerful though things do not always go as planned

PSALM 27:1

Though things do not always go as we planned

Aim to be cheerful and cease to complain,

Happiness is not an absence of problems

But the ability to deal with them.

Yes, we’ll find it healthier and happier

To glean the best from every day,

With an inward hope that’s deep and strong

We will go a long, long way.


Rough and adverse winds still tend to blow

But the love of the Shepherd will never fail

And He will bring you through victoriously

Calm and unshaken by the gale.

Trials become the steps by which we climb,

Looking beyond the sadness and the strife,

Holding on to the word of the Psalmist,

The Lord is the strength of my life.

Doreen Craig