Did you ask Him for submission?

Did you plead for it in prayer,

And such suffering great o’ertook you

That you thought He didn’t care?

Ah, my dear, He heard and answered

That true prayer with bitter tear;

For we only learn obedience

By things we suffer here.

(This is stanza 2 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.)