Providential Mercies

 

 

If God can take an earthen root

And grow a peony;

And plant within an acorn

The burstings of a tree;

If God can gown a little bird

And fill its heart with song -

Then He can take my feeble self

And make me sweet and strong.

 

If God can take a tiny seed

And nurture it to worth;

Dress the field and bushes

With flower-scented birth;

If He can govern suns and rains

And use them for our good -

I'm thus assured God works for me

In just the way He should.

 

There's not a sparrow drops its wing,

Not a human cry that falls,

But what God responds with all His love -

He hears our bleating calls!

 

~ Roxie Lusk Smith