God Keeps Watch
We move about in God’s great world,
His garden of growing life and love,
And often strike the stinging thorn,
Or dread the darkening cloud above;
Yet Father God is always there,
O’er level plains or mountains steep,
And hears our every whispered prayer,
For over all His watch doth keep.
—Anon.
Thinking of God
I think about God.
Yet I talk of small matters.
Now isn’t it odd
How my idle tongue chatters!
Of quarrelsome neighbors,
Fine weather and rain,
Indifferent labors,
Indifferent pain,
Some trivial style
Fashion shifts with a nod.
And yet all the while
I am thinking of God.
—Gamaliel Bradford.
Alternate Reading: Luke 4:1-13.