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Living What We Pray For

1/6/2020

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​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.
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2 Comments
Michelle Thompson
8/25/2019 04:11:47 pm

Is this poem, "Living What we Pray for" by Whitney Montgomery public domain or is it copyrighted? I would like to use it in a book I am writing. Thank you for your time.

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Carolyn Montgomery Taylor
11/4/2020 07:00:28 pm

Whitney Montgomery was my great uncle. I honestly don’t remember ever having read this poem. Was it in one of his books?

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