WITH GOD I CHALLENGE YOU

Gravitation --

With God I challenge you.

You might drag me down, way down

But, not out.

Aging --

With God I challenge you.

You might make me old, really old

But not useless.

Disease --

With God I challenge you

You might lay me flat, flat on a sickbed

But, just for a while, a little while.

Affliction --

With God I challenge you

You might hurt me bad, terribly bad

But. I’m stronger afterward.

Darkness --

With God I challenge you.

You might blind me now and then,

But, I shall see light, the light of God

Death --

With God I challenge you.

You might overcome me for a time, or even a long time

But when the trumpet of God sounds

I shall rise again.

---by A follower of the Carpenter