This Will Pass Away, Too

I found this poem by Helen Steiner Rice and loved it!!!

If I can endure for this minute

Whatever is happening to me,

No matter how heavy my heart is

Or how dark the moment may be ...

If I can remain calm and quiet

With all the world crashing about me,

Secure in the knowledge God loves me

When everyone else seems to doubt me ...

If I can but keep on believing

What I know in my heart to be true,

That darkness will fade with the morning

And that "this will pass away, too!" ...

Then nothing in life can defeat me

For as long as this knowledge remains

I can suffer whatever is happening

For I know God will break all the chains

That are binding me tight in "the darkness"

And trying to fill me with fear ...

For there is "no night without dawning"

And I know that "my morning" is near.