Thought for the Weekend 5/31/2008

When you’re sick and you think, What’s the use?
And you’re tired, discouraged, afraid;
And you keep asking why they don’t remember how hard you try
And forget the mistakes that you have made;
When you’re chuck full of pain and you’re tired of the game,
And you want to get out of it all –
That’s the time to begin to stick out your chin
And fight with your back to the wall!

When you’ve done all you can to carryout your plan
But you can’t keep your head up much more;
And the end of the bout leaves you all down and out,
Bleeding, and reeling and sore;
When you’ve prayed all along for the sound of the gong
To ring for the fight to stop –
Just keep on your feet and smile at defeat;
That’s the real way to come up on top!

When you’re tired of hard knocks and you’re right on the rocks,
And nobody lends you a hand;
When none of your schemes, the best of your dreams,
Turn out in the way you’d planned,
And you’ve lost all your grit and you’re ready to quit
For life’s just a failure for you,
Why, start in again and soon you will win
And continue to win through and through.
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Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:30-31