<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Count It All As Joy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Count it all as joy! <br>Even the pain of living, <br>You believe has increased...<br>Can and will cease to be.<br>If the grip you hold.<br>Loosens to let grief go! <br>And, <br>That is okay...<br>If it goes away.<br>It is not meant to stay, <br>To have you in despair that way! <br>Count it all as joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you did not experience sorrow, <br>How would you recognize happiness? <br>Count it all as joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you did not know struggle...<br>Or a burden to bear.<br>How would you know a gladness, <br>That appeared in your heart to share? <br>Count it all as joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you did not know loss, <br>And the agony connected.<br>How can you appreciate...<br>A peace of mind and reflect it? <br>Count it all as joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even those rough times, <br>Appearing along your path...<br>Aren't there to paralyze you, <br>As obstacles in your view.<br>To subdue there to last! <br>Count it all as joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trial and tribulations? <br>Even take 'them' and celebrate.<br>You are awaiting, <br>To be showered with treasures.<br>Know it and keep 'that' to anticipate.<br>Count it ALL as joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maintain a steadfastness in your praises.<br>To God...<br>And do not for a moment, <br>Contemplate a doubt in hesitation.<br>God prepares every wish to be delivered.<br>Know you are blessed, <br>With each test you receive! <br>Perceiving 'this' as it is! <br>Depend on this.<br>And count it all as joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Dedicated: <br>Mrs. Eula Shamberger<br>Hartford, Connecticut</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thank you, Eula.<br>This has been the first time I have been inspired<br>to begin and finish a composition in the presence<br>of the person who provided that inspiration! <br>We both were there in your office January 29th 2008<br>when you said 'Count It All As Joy'. And I could not<br>leave until this 'poem' was completed in its entirety! <br>THAT has never happened to me before. This was<br>indeed a message...a blessing! And I am very grateful! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lawrence</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434079" data-title="Count It All As Joy de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Count it all as joy! Even the pain of living, You believe has increased... Can and will cease to be. If the grip you hold. Loosens to let grief go! And, That is okay... If it goes away. It is not meant to stay, To have you in despair that way..."></div> </div> </div>

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