A Sweet Poem....

As you might or might not know...Ruth Bell Graham, wife of Billy Graham recently passed away. I received in the mail today a book of her poetry, titled, Sitting By My Laughing Fire.

I haven't read it all the way through, but last night I just picked it up and it opened to this poem - and oh how I needed to see it. And to read it out loud - speaks to you even more. (I have no idea when she wrote this poem - she mentioned that sometimes she wrote poems for other people -but it really touched me! So much so, I called D.C. to read it to her.)

It reads:

Dear God, I prayed , all unafraid
(as we're inclined to do)
I do not need a handsome man
But let him be like You;
I do not need one big and strong
nor yet so very tall,
nor need he be some genius,
or wealthy, Lord, at all;
but let his head be high, dear God,
and let his eye be clear,
his shoulders straight, whate'er his state,
whate'er his earthly sphere;
and let his face have character,
a ruggedness of soul,
and let his whole life show, dear God,
a singleness of soul,
then when he comes
(as he will come)
with quiet eyes aglow,
I'll understand that he's the man
I prayed for long ago.
By: Ruth Bell Graham