Living What We Pray For
I knelt to pray when day was done,
And prayed, “O Lord, bless everyone,
Lift from each saddened heart the pain
And let the sick be well again.”
And then I woke another day
And carelessly went on my way,
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye.
I did not try to share the load
Of any brother on the road.
I did not even go to see
The sick man just next door to me.
Yet once again when day was done,
I prayed, “O Lord, bless everyone.”
But as I prayed, into my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear,
“Pause now, my son, before you pray.
Whom have you tried to bless today?
Gods sweetest blessing always go
By hands that serve him here below.”
And then I hid my face and cried,
“Forgive me, God, I have not tried,
But let me live another day
And I will live the way I pray.”
by Whitney Montgomery
Whitney Maxwell Montgomery was born on 14 September 1877 on a farm in the vicinity of Navarro County, Texas, United States of America. He was married to Vaida Stewart Boyd on 9 June 1927, and together the couple wrote poetry, and edited and published numerous books in their print shop. Whitney Maxwell Montgomery passed on at 89 years of age on 7 December 1966.
I knelt to pray when day was done,
And prayed, “O Lord, bless everyone,
Lift from each saddened heart the pain
And let the sick be well again.”
And then I woke another day
And carelessly went on my way,
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye.
I did not try to share the load
Of any brother on the road.
I did not even go to see
The sick man just next door to me.
Yet once again when day was done,
I prayed, “O Lord, bless everyone.”
But as I prayed, into my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear,
“Pause now, my son, before you pray.
Whom have you tried to bless today?
Gods sweetest blessing always go
By hands that serve him here below.”
And then I hid my face and cried,
“Forgive me, God, I have not tried,
But let me live another day
And I will live the way I pray.”
by Whitney Montgomery
Whitney Maxwell Montgomery was born on 14 September 1877 on a farm in the vicinity of Navarro County, Texas, United States of America. He was married to Vaida Stewart Boyd on 9 June 1927, and together the couple wrote poetry, and edited and published numerous books in their print shop. Whitney Maxwell Montgomery passed on at 89 years of age on 7 December 1966.
