How can our Father ever forget
His children here below?
Does He not feed the ravens all,
And make the lilies grow?
No sparrow to the earth can fall
Without the Father’s care;
The frailest thing that He has made
Does in His goodness share.
Then shall we doubt His thoughtful love?
Should we not trust Him more
Than weaker creatures of His hand,
Who feeds them from His store?
So brood not o’er, with anxious mind,
Tomorrow and its need;
In Jesus Christ our Father gives
A full supply indeed.
-Selected
ML-08/15/1976