Path of prayer

I have read more on this vacation than I ever have. Read 2 books on prayer. I have felt a stillness and calmness that I haven't felt since men's retreat. Here is a passage from one of the books.


Unanswered yet! The prayers your lips have pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to fail? Is hope departing?
And think you all in vain those falling tears?
Say not the father hath heard your prayer,
You shall have your desire-sometime-somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Though when you first presented
This one petition at the fathers throne
It seemed you could not wait the time of asking
So urgent was the heart to make it known;
Though years have passed since then, do not despair
The lord will answer you-sometime-somewhere.

Unanswered yet? Nay do you say ungranted,
Perhaps your work is not wholly done.
The work began when first your prayer was uttered,
And god will finish what he has begun.
If you keep the incense burning there,
His glory you shall see-sometime-somehwere.

Unanswered yet! Faith cannot be unanswered;
Her feet are firmly planted on the rock;
Amid the wildest storms she stands undaunted,
Nor quails before the loudest thunder shock.
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer,
And cries, "it shall be done-sometime-somewhere."


E.b. browning