{"id":1750029,"date":"2022-11-24T01:02:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750029"},"modified":"2022-11-24T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:02:37","slug":"a-poets-reflection-on-why-we-can-thank-god-for-worry-and-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-poets-reflection-on-why-we-can-thank-god-for-worry-and-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poet\u2019s Reflection On Why We Can Thank God For Worry And Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-poets-reflection-on-why-we-can-thank-god-for-worry-and-trouble%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an American gem from Wisconsin whose poetry is well worth reading wherever you find it. She\u2019s written many poems duly popular in children\u2019s poetry anthologies, but her adult work is also worthy. Here, Wilcox treats a serious and seasonally appropriate theological theme in her characteristically joyful way.<\/p>\n<p> Thanksgiving <\/p>\n<p>We walk on starry fields of white<br \/>And do not see the daisies;<br \/>For blessings common in our sight<br \/>We rarely offer praises.<br \/>We sigh for some supreme delight<br \/>To crown our lives with splendor,<br \/>And quite ignore our daily store<br \/>Of pleasures sweet and tender.<\/p>\n<p>Our cares are bold and push their way<br \/>Upon our thought and feeling.<br \/>They hand about us all the day,<br \/>Our time from pleasure stealing.<br \/>So unobtrusive many a joy<br \/>We pass by and forget it,<br \/>But worry strives to own our lives,<br \/>And conquers if we let it.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not a day in all the year<br \/>But holds some hidden pleasure,<br \/>And looking back, joys oft appear<br \/>To brim the past\u2019s wide measure.<br \/>But blessings are like friends, I hold,<br \/>Who love and labor near us.<br \/>We ought to raise our notes of praise<br \/>While living hearts can hear us.<\/p>\n<p>Full many a blessing wears the guise<br \/>Of worry or of trouble;<br \/>Far-seeing is the soul, and wise,<br \/>Who knows the mask is double.<br \/>But he who has the faith and strength<br \/>To thank his God for sorrow<br \/>Has found a joy without alloy<br \/>To gladden every morrow.<\/p>\n<p>We ought to make the moments notes<br \/>Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;<br \/>The hours and days a silent phrase<br \/>Of music we are living.<br \/>And so the theme should swell and grow<br \/>As weeks and months pass o\u2019er us,<br \/>And rise sublime at this good time,<br \/>A grand Thanksgiving chorus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox&#8217;s poem &#8216;Thanksgiving&#8217; acknowledges that &#8216;Full many a blessing wears the guise \/ Of worry or of trouble.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1563,"featured_media":1750032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}