“Lord, let me not be too content
With life in trifling service spent–
Make me aspire!
When days with petty cares are filled,
Let me with fleeting thoughts be thrilled
Of something higher.
“Help me to long for mental grace
To struggle with the commonplace
I daily find.
May little deeds not bring to fruit
A crop of little thoughts, to suit
A shriveled mind.”
When Jesus asked His two ambitious disciples if they were able to drink the cup He was about to drink and to be baptized with the baptism with which He was baptized, they said promptly, “We are able.” Their heroic answer furnishes a noble motto for every phase of life. Whatever call comes to us, whether it be to sorrow or to joy, we should say in quiet confidence, “I am able.”
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