The Healing Spring

I've thought a lot about prayer lately. I've decided to pray and not to act, is to not pray at all. As Elder Ballard recently stated, "We are responsible for the salvation of our own souls."

The Healing Spring

A body ravished by disease

Lay lifeless on the ground,

Sprawled beside the healing spring

That it never found.

A man that had but lift his hand

And dip within the spring,

Didn’t move or turn his head

Or even do a thing.

He cried and wallowed for relief,

But no one heard the sound.

So he lay without a prayer

On the unforgiving ground.

“Why not move and save yourself?”

A voice seemed to say.

“I have faith; I’ll be healed,

But not in such a way.

I need but pray.” He replied

From the spot of ground

Where now his lifeless body lay

By the spring he never found.

                       Jack Shirley