"When the rough winds blow"

“When the rough winds blows”

Consider it pure joy my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops patience. James 1:2-3

For patience, when the rough winds blow!

For patience, when our hopes are fading, -

When visible things all backward go,

And no where seems the power of aiding!

God still enfolds thee with His viewless hand,

And leads thee surely to the Promised Land. – N. L. Frothingham

WE have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below, and those above us, and with our own equals; with those who love us and those who love us not; for the greatest things and for the least; against sudden attacks of trouble, and under our daily burdens; disappointments as to the weather, or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness of the body, or the wearying of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or others’ failure toward us; in every day wants, or in the aching of sickness or the decay of age; in disappointment, bereavement, losses, injuries, disapproval; in heaviness of the heart; or its sickness amid delayed hopes.

In all these things, from child-hood’s little troubles to the martyr’s sufferings, patience is the grace of God, in which we endure evil for the love of God. – E.B. Pusey 1880-1882

Mary Wilder Tileston [Edited by Shirley Leger July 2020