Did you ask the Lord for patience?

Did you plead for it in prayer,

Then tribulations great befell you,

And you thought He didn’t care?

O, my child, He heard and answered,

Answered full your prayer;

“Tribulations worketh patience,”

That’s the gem you longed to wear.

(This is stanza 1 of a poem by Josephine Hope Westervelt found in the book Streams in the Desert.  I will post addition stanzas in the days to come.)