Jubilee

This poem was written for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. I was asked by Carolyn Days to write a poem to be put on the program for the sacrament meeting honoring that day. It is a poem of praise and thanksgiving for all that God has given us in these latter days.

Gale L. Wolfenbarger
3 April 1988

Jubilee
One hundred years and fifty more
Since on that lovely day,
The church of God was formed on earth
And saints here knelt and prayed.
And since that day the world has changed
And man has flown in space,
Walked on the moon and found new ways
To feed the human race.
But man is not the author
Of the things his mind has known.
For life from God is not a thing
That any man can own.
O'er half a century man is blessed
By God and prophets dear.
Now raise your voice in song and praise
In this, the jubilee year.
Yes, songs of triumph, songs of praise
For blessings great and small,
Songs of laughter songs of joy
To him who gives us all.
Gale L. Wolfenbarger
1980
Copyright © 2005 Gale L. Wolfenbarger