Today's Poem: Sing and Praise:

Sometimes a light surprises
believers while they sing
It is the L-rd Who rises
With healing in His wings

When comforts are declining
He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining
To clear it after rain

In holy contemplation
We sweetly then pursue
The theme of G-d's salvation
And find it ever new

Set free from present sorrow
We cheerfully can say
Let the unknown tomorrow
Bring with it what it may

It can bring with it nothing
But He will bear us through
Who gives the lilies clothing
Will clothe His people too

Beneath the spreading heavens
No creature but is fed
And He Who feeds the ravens
Will give His children bread

Though vine nor fig tree neither
Their wonted fruit should bear
Though all the fields should wither
Nor flocks nor herds be there

Yet G-d the same abiding
His praise shall tune my voice
For while in Him confiding
I cannot but sing and rejoice.