Blessings Unknown

Blessings Unknown

I have to believe everything happens for a reason.

For God is All-knowing of things in their time and season.

I do round after round of what if, instead, I had done this,

Worrying time after time of opportunities missed.

But He knows all of me—every single part.

My weakness, strength, even all my heart.

And He takes all of it and works it for my good,

And He sees that all things happen as they should.

He knew which mistakes I'd make...

He knows what I'll choose and what it will take

To teach me, shape me, refine me to be

That daughter of God whose potential He sees.

Every pain, each trial, experience, and story is given

To help me rise up, repent, and start living

The life and path He desires me to take;

All that happens is for my good, for my sake.

And I have to exercise faith and hope in what comes

Believing all that happens is part of many blessings unknown.

By Melinda Taylor

November 2014