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An Inspirational Poem About Faith

This inspirational poem about faith and hope teaches us that faith is not just a passive thing - one where you merely believe or wait for something to happen.

In reality, it is an active motion, one where you positively keep striving for achievement, even when things don't look so good.

Faith
by S.E. Kiser

Faith is not merely praying
Upon your knees at night;
Faith is not merely straying
Through darkness to the light.

Faith is not merely waiting
For glory that may be,
Faith is not merely hating
The sinful ecstasy.

Faith is the brave endeavor
The splendid enterprise,
The strength to serve, whatever
Conditions may arise.


~S.E. Kiser (1862 - 1942)

Samuel Ellsworth Kiser was born in Shippenville, Pa. He began newspaper work in Cleveland, and from 1900 until 1914 was editorial and special writer for the Chicago Record-Herald.

Kiser was noted for his humorous sketches, which had been widely syndicated.

Among his books are "Georgie," "Charles the Chauffeur," "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy," "Ballads of the Busy Days," "Sonnets of a Chorus Girl," "The Whole Glad Year," and "The Land of Little Care."



More Poems by Kiser

A Little Prayer
December 31
Unsubdued


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