You can’t experience healing
if you’ve never been sick
You can’t get muscles
if you don’t even lift
You can’t enjoy the morning
if you never have night
You can’t be courageous
until you have some frights
You can’t appreciate summer
unless you’ve had a cold winter
You can’t enjoy dinner
until you experience hunger
A plant cannot grow
unless it’s been planted down in soil
Peace wouldn’t be peaceful
if you’ve never had turmoil
You can’t make olive oil
until the olive is crushed
You can’t make wine
until grapes start to rot
You can’t make cheese
unless milk begins to froth
A holiday wouldn’t be a holiday
if you always had days off
God is faithful
even through your dark days
For without the darkness
He wouldn’t be able to make a way
