Learning To Lean On Him Poem by Annajoy Thompson

Time and time agin
Life has knocked me down
But I always lift my head
And get back up off the ground

My body's slowly fading
My strength is dissipating
The pain keeps adding up
Soon to be too much

I've got no one to turn to
My supporters have turned their backs
I don't know what to do
To get myself back on track

Each moment's getting harder
Each day worse than the last
My troubles carry further
My breaking point is long past

So here I stand alone
My future in God's hands
My mind free to roam
As I make my final plans

Life was once so good to me
Where is my God now?
I need him here so desperately
I cry out to him so loud

My strength has long since failed me
I'm leaning now on him
But I'm falling oh so quickly
All these times and times again

I always feel to weak
So helpless, so alone
Surely if there were a God
He would have now been known

But I have faith in my father
No matter what life brings
For he loves me like no other
He is the ruler of all things

So though the doubts procure
And swirl within my head
I am letting them go
And trusting God instead

Life has not been easy
Nor will it ever be
But for that I am happy
Because it lets God carry me

Through his saving grace
He has taught me through the miles
That it's not what trials you face
But how you face the trials