Faith

If you can keep the Faith, When everything looks dark, If you can look on the bright side, When you seem to have missed the mark, If you can hold your head high and smile, When your heart tells you to cry… If you can hope for a better tomorrow, When it would be easier to sit and sigh, You’ve got it! If you can bite your tongue, When others’ are running loose, If you can say kind things about enemies, When they have said unkind things about you, If you can fall flat on your face, And see the funny side of things, If you can lose everything you have, And, still wear a smile and sing, You’ve got it! Faith does not depend upon what it sees, It wears rose-colored glasses. It can sing in the darkest night. Faith is not daunted by what others say. It remembers that in time everything passes. When Faith is confronted with the impossible, It looks for “that way to escape.” Like the ram caught in the bushes, Faith believes- anyway! It does not just believe in today. Nothing is final-except Death. Faith looks at the ashes… And dreams of tomorrow. No matter how bad things are now, Faith says… “It could have been worse,” And thanks God that He has helped- Even in the midst of tragedy.