The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

February 1

I TO myself have neither power nor worth,

Patience nor love, nor anything right good;

My soul is a poor land, plenteous in dearth—

Here blades of grass, there a small herb for food—

A nothing that would be something if it could;

But if obedience, Lord, in me do grow,

I shall one day be better than I know.