Patient Prayer

I ask You, Lord, what good it does to pray
for something over days and months and years,
You answer us in Your mysterious way,
due to the prayer and sacrifice and tears.

You often wait and ask that we should wait,
not be discouraged by the silence there,
it seems our words pile up at heaven’s gate,
but You hear all, there is no wasted prayer.

You seek our patience and our faith the most,
the waiting puts our virtues to the test,
it finally’s not our praying we should boast,
to praise and boast Your greatness is the best.

Your good advice--submission to these three--
first faith, then patience, then humility.

                     by Pete Voelz       5/16/15