FEATURED POEM

The Moment
By: Karen R. Allan


In the stillness of this moment, despite your many fears
Will you choose to forge ahead through your vale of tears?
It may seem as though your life is a lesson in endurance,
But have you noticed, in your pain, the sweetness of assurance?

Perhaps it is this moment that decides how you face the past.
Do you carry it as an anvil or let go of it at last?
Will it be your sorrows and heartaches that define you?
Or in this moment, do you choose, to let your pain refine you?

Do you spend the time upon your knees recounting your ordeals?
Or counting blessings while you’re there, from the one who heals?
In the lonely moments when your burdens are not light,
Can you hear the whispered truth that all will turn out right?

Will you choose to feel sorry that He’s asked so much of you?
Or will you learn to rise above and help others struggling too?
And if at times those moments, seem too much to bear
Will you choose to humbly bow and feel His Spirit there?

Or if this moment swells with fear and pain and grief,
Will you remember Him who knelt alone, waiting for relief?
It may seem as though the heartache will stretch out to the last
But your suffering is but a moment…and it too shall pass.