Why Fear?
by Ruth Bell Graham

I think it harder, 

Lord, to cast

the cares of those I love

on You,

than to cast mine. 

We, growing older,

learn at last

that You

are merciful

and kind.

Not one time

have You failed me,

Lord—

why fear You’ll fail mine?

Taken by permission from “Ruth Bell Graham’s Collected Poems,” by Ruth Bell Graham, ©1977, 1992, 1997 The Ruth Graham Literary Trust. 

Ruth Bell Graham’s life was marked by her love of the Word of God, the Bible. She taught her children to memorize Scripture, and her Bible was filled with handwritten notes she had jotted down while studying.