SIMPLE TRUST

I do not know why sin abounds

Within this world so fair,

Why numerous discordant sounds

Destroy the heavenly air--

I can't explain this thing, I must

Rely on God in simple trust.

I do not know why pain and loss

Oft fall unto my lot.

Why I must bear the heavy cross

When I desire it not--

I do not know, unless 'tis just

To teach my soul in God to trust.

I know not why the evil seems

Supreme on every hand:

Why suffering flows in endless streams

I do not understand--

Solution comes not to adjust

These mysteries. I can but trust.

I do not know why grief's dark cloud

Bedims my sunny sky,

The tear of bitterness allowed

To swell within my eye--

But, sorrow-stricken to the dust,

I will look up to God and trust.

--R. F. Mayer.