Someday We'll Understand

This week we were saddened to learn that the mother of one of my son's friends died in a head-on car accident. She was a nice lady, about my age with two kids still at home. While praying for her family, this poem came to mind.

Not now, but in the coming years

It may be in a better land

We'll read the meaning of our tears

And there we'll understand.

God knows the way, He holds the key

He guides with unerring hand.

Sometime with tearless eyes we'll see.

Yes, there, up there we'll understand.

Then trust in God through all my days,

For not, for He does hold thy hand;

Though dark the way, still sing and priase,

Sometime, sometime we'll understand.

By Maxwell N. Cornelius