When I was a child
uncountable years ago
I asked You to be my shepherd.
Your answer was instant;
You promised to be by my side
every step of the way;
and You have not dissapointed.
I know that You never said
that I would not encounter
difficulties and challenges;
but I believed,
I trusted.
It’s true that
I have been fearful once in a while,
It’s true that
friends looked the other way
and even despised me
when I needed them most.
It’s true that
I have been lonely now and then;
as I journeyed the contours
of this wide world.
But You have kept the promise
to the letter.
You have been there for me
as I endured and overcame
the more than fair share
of the rough, the hardknocks
and the beatings,
that came my way,
sometimes overwhelmingly.
I know that Your replies
to my asks, my prayers and my demands
were not always positive
and were not always immediate;
but they always came,
positive or negative,
at Your time
and were never wrong.
I am a witness
that Your grace
has been sufficient
each and every time.
I remain most thankful
for Your love and magnanimity
as You continue keeping Your promise
to be a light in the midst of darkness;
as You continue to dry every tear that I cry
including the tears of joy
as I count my blessings.
And so ……………………………………. ,
just like David the Psalmist in Psalm 37:25:
I am a witness that once I was young
and now I am old,
yet I have never seen
the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread.
Thank You Lord. Alhamdulillah.
