To the Payne Family...especially my friends Vince and Lisa, My thoughts and prayers are with you. I know this time is a difficult one for you. Your emotions are mixed as you remember both happy and sad times at this crossroads in your family. This is a poem is was one that my grandmother lived by. I know her only by the woman who fought to come visit me in the hospital as a premature baby, she passed a month after I was released. I share it hoping it brings you hope, comfort. May God Bless You! What God Has Promised God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our lives thro’; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain. God has not promised We shall not know Toil and temptation, Trouble and woe; He has not told us We shall not bear Many a burden, Many a care. But God has promised Strength for the day, Rest for the laborer, Light for the way, Grace for the trials, Help from above, Unfailing sympathy, Undying love. by Annie Johnson Flint