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We've Always Been Provided For

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 52.

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We've Always Been Provided For

“Good wife, what are you singing for? You know we've lost the hay, And what we'll do for horse and kine is more than I can say; While like as not, with storm and rain, we'll lose both corn and wheat.”
She looked up with a pleasant smile, and answered low and sweet, “There is a heart, there is a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
He turned around with sullen gloom. She said, “Love, be at rest; You've cut the grass, worked soon and late, you did your very best. That was your work; you've not at all to do with wind and rain, And do not doubt but that you will reap rich fields of golden grain; For there's a heart, and there's a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
“That's like a woman's reasoning,— we must, because we must.”
She softly said: “I reason not; I only work and trust. The harvest may redeem the day; keep heart, whate'er betide: When one door shuts, I've always seen another open wide. There is a heart, there is a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
He kissed the calm and trustful face; gone was his restless pain. She heard him with a cheerful step go whistling down the lane, And went about her household tasks full of a glad content, Singing to time her busy hands, as to and fro she went: “There is a heart, there is a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
Days came and went: 'twas Christmas-time, and the great fire burned clear. The farmer said: “Dear wife, it's been a good and happy year; The fruit was gain, the surplus corn has bought the hay, you know.”
She lifted then a smiling face, and said: “I told you so; For there's a heart, and there's a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.” —Selected.