Accepting Pain

Accepting Pain By Dane Smith-Johnsen Accepting pains, I fain life becomes troublesome. In Sun or rain As days of great helplessness come. Praying remains, Sustain hope that hurts shall soon go. Forestall complaints. Watch faith with great endurance grow. Go not insane Nor spend thoughts on self-pities lure. And be not vain, Dwell not on aches without a cure. Jesus the Christ, Pain and death without protest bore. Kingly gifts, myrrh Scores of sins roared upon Christ's door. God's Begotten Willing, complaint-less, crucified. A mortal man Suffered pain and shamefully died. Soon pain shall pass. Living truths prepared souls procure. God judges last. Trusts, take comfort as pains endure. ã October 31, 2009 (Dedicated to all that suffer with the mental and physical ills of mortality- Never give up!)