A Week of Poems, Day 3: Wit's End Corner

                                  

                                       “At their wit’s end they cry unto the Lord in their trouble,

                                               and He bringeth them out.”-Psalm 107:27, 28

This week my oldest daughter is posting some of her photography along with several selections classic Christian poetry.We found this poem in the book The Best Loved Religious Poems, published in 1933. If you are a weary mother in need of some encouragement, this poem is for you! ( All punctuation and capitalization is as the author intended.)

                                                          Wit’s End Corner

                          Are you standing at “Wits End Corner,”

                                    Christian, with troubled brow?

                               Are you thinking of what is before you?

                                    And all you are bearing now?

                               Does all the world seem against you,

                                    And you in the battle alone?

                               Remember-- at “Wit’s End Corner”

                                     Is where God’s power is shown.

                                       
                           Are you standing at “Wit’s End Corner,”

                                    Your work before you spread,

                                 All lying begun, unfinished,

                                     And pressing on heart and head,

                                 Longing for strength to do it,

                                     Stretching out trembling hands?

                                 Remember-- at “Wit’s End Corner”

                                     The Burden-bearer stands.

                                       
                          Are you standing at “Wits End Corner”?

                                   Then you’re just in the very spot

                                 To learn the wondrous recourses

                                      Of Him who faileth not;

                                 No doubt to a brighter pathway

                                      Your footsteps will soon be moved

                                 But only at “Wit’s End Corner”

                                       Is the “God who is able” proved.

                                                                -Antoinette Wilson

This post is linked to Homemaking Link-up at Raising Homemakers.