Your Mission

Theo (2022)

 

- G.M. Grannis

If you cannot on the ocean

Sail among the swiftest fleet,

Rocking on the highest billows,

Laughing at the storms you meet;

You can stand among the sailors

Anchored yet within the bay;

You can lend a hand to help them

As they launch their boat away.

Md Towhidul Islam (2022)

If you are too weak to journey

Up the mountain steep and high,

You can stand within the valley

While the multitudes go by;

You can chant in happy measure

As they slowly pass along;

Though they may forget the singer

They will not forget the song.

Tobias Bjørkli (2022)

If you have not gold and silver

Ever ready to command;

If you cannot toward the needy,

Reach an ever-open hand;

You can visit the afflicted,

O’er the erring you can weep;

You can be a true disciple

Sitting at the Saviour’s feet.

Pixabay (2022)

If you cannot in the harvest

Garner up the richest sheaves,

Many a grain both ripe and golden

Will the careless reapers leave;

Go and glean among the briers

Growing rank against the wall,

For it may be that their shadow

Hides the heaviest wheat of all.

Bayu Samudro (2022)

If you cannot in the conflict

Prove yourself a soldier true,

If where fire and smoke are thickest

There’s no work for you to do;

When the battle-field is silent

You can go with careful tread:

You can bear away the wounded,

You can cover up the dead.

Cottonbro (2022)

If you cannot be the watchman,

Standing high on Zion’s wall,

Pointing out the path to heaven,

Offering life and peace to all;

With your prayers and with your bounties

You can do what Heaven demands,

You can be like faithful Aaron,

Holding up the prophet’s hands.

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Do not, then, stand idly waiting

For some greater work to do;

Fortune is a lazy goddess–

She will never come to you.

Go and toil in any vineyard,

Do not fear to do or dare;

If you want a field of labor

You can find it anywhere.

Daniel Duran (2022)

Your Mission 

-By G.M. Grannis