If my days were untroubled, my heart always light,

Would I seek that fair land where there is no night?

If I never grew weary with the weight of my load,

Would I search for God's Peace, at the end of the road?

If I never new sickness and ne'er felt pain,

Would I search for a Hand to help and sustain?

If I walked not with sorrow, and lived without loss,

Would my soul seek solace at the foot of the Cross?

If all I desired were mine day by day,

Would I kneel before God, and earnestly pray?

If God sent no winters to freeze me with fear,

Would I yearn for the warmth of the spring every year?

I ask myself this and the answer is plain,

If I never knew sickness and never felt pain,

I'd seek God less often, and need Him much less,

For God's sought more often in times of distress.

And no-one knows Jesus or sees Him as plain,

As those who have met Him, on

The Pathway of Pain.