Sunday, January 30, 2011

Rose from Brier

I came across this in Mountain Breezes (a collection of Amy Carmichael poems) a few weeks ago and found it encouraging...

Thou hast not that, My child, but thou hast Me;
And am not I alone enough for thee?
I know it all, know how thy heart was set
Upon this joy which is not given yet.

And well I know how through the wistful days
Thou walkest all the dear familiar ways
As unregarded as a breath of air;
but there in love and longing, always there.

I know it all; but from they brier shall blow
A rose for others.  If it were not so
I would have told thee. Come, then say to Me:
My Lord, my Love, I am content with Thee.
Amy Carmichael

3 comments:

Unknown said...

This is a favorite of mine, but I have not read it for a long while. It's going into my journal... :)

Cheri said...

Ditto to what Kristin shared!

When we have Christ, we have all that we need.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful! And yes encouraging. Thanks for posting, Rachel. :)