Encouragement Poems

Worries

Take yesterday's worries and sort them all out

And you'll wonder whatever you worried about.

Look back, at the cares that once furrowed your brow,

I fancy you'll smile at most of them now.

They seemed terrible then, but they really were not,

For once out of the woods, all the fears are forgot.

Author Unknown

One Year to Live

If I had but one year to live;

One year to help; one year to give;

One year to love; one year to bless;

One year of better things to stress;

One year to sing; one year to smile;

To brighten earth a little while;

I think that I would spend each day,

In just the very self-same way

That I do now. For from afar

The call may come to cross the bar

At any time, and I must be

Prepared to meet eternity.

So if I have a year to live,

Or just a day in which to give

A pleasant smile, a helping hand,

A mind that tries to understand

A fellow-creature when in need,

'Tis one with me, - I take no heed;

But try to live each day He sends

To serve my gracious Master's end.

Mary Davis Reed