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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

The Ledger Of My Day

I asked myself when I had come to pray

“What have I done to serve my Lord today?”
God did not call on me today to do

Some work magnificent, but small things too
Can serve His purpose. It has been my lot

To do those little things, and I would not
Disdain to do them. Neither would I ask

That He might find for me some nobler task.

I think He saw it when a little child,
In some small trouble, looked at me and smiled

As passing by, I stopped to lend a hand.
It seemed to me I heard my Lord’s command

That I must be like this small child to

Know
How those who seek His kingdom still

Must go.
I was surprised to hear a neighbor say

She heard me sing a hymn and that

Her day
Was brightened by it, and her faith made

Strong.
Because my voice was lifted in a song.

The vagrant coming to my kitchen door
Received the food he asked and something more.

I stopped my work and sat with him to talk

And as he left he seemed to me to walk
Straighter, as if he felt himself to be

One of God’s creatures, and he left with me
The glow of having helped. I humbly knew

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