DISAPOINTMENT?

Do you ever feel disapointted or let down by life?  I think we all do at times.  Here is a poem I found. The author is unknown:

Disappointment, His appointment, change one letter, then I see

That the thwarting of my purpose

Is God’s better choice for me

Disappointment must be blessing

Though it may come in disguise

For the end from the beginning

Open to His wisdom lies.

Disappointment, His appointment

whose the Lord’s who loves me best

Understands and knows me fully

Who my faith and love would test.

For like loving earthly parent

He rejoices when he knows

That his child accepts unquestioned

All that from His wisdom flows.

Disappointment, His appointment

No good thing will He withhold

From denials oft we gather

treasures of His love untold

And though we know each broken purpose

leads to fuller deeper trust

still the end of all his dealings

He is our God who’s wise and just.

Disappointment, His appointment

Lord I take it then as such

Like the clay in hands of potter

yielding only to thy touch

All my life’s plan is thy molding

Not one single choice be mine

Let me answer unrepining

Father, Not my Will but Thine