Call Back

I read this poem from an excerpt of Streams in the Desert by Mrs Charles E Cowman this week and I can't stop thinking about it. 

Its about struggles in life. The Valleys. The Storms. And the encouragement that gets us through. 

It reminded me that I need to "Call Back". To remember that in the business of life, I musn't be blind to those around me who need to know there is hope.

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 Life is a steep climb, and it does the heart good to have somebody "call back" and cheerily beckon us on up the high hill. We are all climbers together, and we must help one another. This mountain climbing is serious business, but glorious. It takes strength and steady step to find the summits. The outlook widens with the altitude. If anyone among us has found anything worthwhile, we ought to "call back."

If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back--

"Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track; 

And if, perchance, Faith's light is dim, because the oil is low, 

Your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.

Call back, and tell me that He went with you into the storm; 

Call back , and say He kept you when the forest's roots were torn; 

That when the heavens thunder and the earthquake shook the hill, 

He bore you up and held you where the very air was still.

Oh, friend, call back, and tell me for I cannot see your face;

 They say it glows with triumph, and your feet bound in the race; 

But there are mists between us and my spirit eyes are dim, 

And I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.

But if you'll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry, 

And if you'll say He saw you though the night's sin-darkened sky--

If you have gone a little way ahead, oh, friend, call back---'

Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track.

---Mrs Charles E Cowman