Birthday Wishes: My Wish for Thee [Cards]

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What shall I wish you, dear one,

As you enter another year?

A life all free from sorrow,

With never a pain or fear?

A path all strewn with roses

With never a prickly thorn

With all of joy to gladden

And naught to make you mourn?

No! then you would lose the blessing

That comes with sorrow's hour,

You then would lose the comfort

Of Christ's own mighty power;

Oft in the deepest trial

The richest blessing comes

And pain but leads us upward

Toward our heavenly home.

So I will leave your future

In His all-loving hand.

With Him will leave the mysteries

We cannot understand,

Content that He will lead you

The way that's always right,

The roughest path but brings you

To His own glory light.

I know that He will give you

His own deep joy and rest,

I know that He will send you

All that is wise and best;

So I will only wish you

Just His own perfect will,

His own sweet love and blessing

Your inmost soul to fill;

Yet, "more and more" of glory

Until the goal is won,

And in His Royal Presence

Eternity's begun.