SWEET TRANQUILLITY

If just one thing from nature I could glean
From all her vast lessons all worthy to be learned.
It is that my soul be tranquil and at peace
What ere this life each day to me would bring.
If one day a gentle zephyr carries me on my way,
Then turns me to be tempest tossed and blown from shore to shore.
I, with accepting grace smile at both,
Knowing both are needed to help me in my growth.
If a kind hand is held out while I am in need
Or in that same day some deprived soul steals all I have,
I will kneel and thank God fervently
For all his wondrous gifts to me.
If with health and wealth I'm served by God's good grace,
Or like Job racked with pain and all I have is gone,
I hope with all my heart in tranquillity proclaim.
`I know that my redeemer lives' and I'll see Him once again,
Then natures greatest lesson I will have learned,
For she accepts with grace and beauty all that comes her way
Be it shower or storm, burning heat or winters icy snow,
And when all is done she is content and bathed in sweet         tranquility.

M Ann Margetson
October 1993
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