I CAN HAVE IT ALL

A poem about virtues

I can have everything
But if I don't know what I have
Then I have nothing

If my goods are stored away
Forgotten, unaccessible
Then these goods, my goods,
Are as good as dead

I can have patience
I can have faith
I can have love
I can have it all
But unless I know it
Unless I know how to use it
Then it is as if I do not have it

But all goods can be found,
All virtues restored.
For it only takes the heart to seek
And the desire to withhold.
To have the strength to find

But to have the ability to keep
And retain that which was captured by strength,
You must know and believe
It is not your strength but His.
Providing to all, invariably
To those that seek


Editor's Pick in Spiritual Newsletter 7/27/11