As though it had never been

By Octavius Winslow

Morning Thoughts

Child of God soon, O how soon! All that now loads your heart with care And wrings it with sorrow, All that dims your eye with tears And renders the day anxious And the night sleepless, Will be as though it had never been,

Emerging from the entanglement, the dreariness, the solitude, the loneliness, and the temptations of the wilderness, you shall enter upon your everlasting rest, your unfitting inheritance, where there is no sorrow, no declension, no sin, no sunset, no twilight, no evening shadows, no midnight darkness, but all is one perfect, cloudless, eternal day.

For Jesus is the joy, the light, and the glory thereof.