Don Wildmon

AFA/AFR founder

May 1997 – Regularly we receive phone calls and letters from people who are interested in fighting the battle for America’s families. They are so discouraged and broken-hearted and ready to quit. They tell us they go to their minister or others they think would be concerned, only to be rebuffed in their efforts to get others actively involved.

I know how they feel. Quite well. I have been there myself.

If you are one of those, let me share a poem with you. It was written by S.E. Kiser.

Unsubdued
I have hoped, I have planned, I have striven,
To the will I have added the deed;
The best that was in me I’ve given,
I have prayed, but the gods would not heed.

I have dared and reached only disaster,
I have battled and broken my lance;
I am bruised by a pitiless master
That the weak and the timid call chance.

I am old, I am bent, I am cheated,
Of all that Youth urged me to win.
But name me not with the defeated,
Tomorrow again, I begin.

I think Paul said it best. “And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.”

To those discouraged, I can only say: put your trust in and dependency on God, not man.

You will not be disappointed.