I Find Wade's Footsteps Far Too Large to Walk
Watkins, William John
I Find Wade's Footsteps Far Too Large to Walk For Wade, 1963-93 William John Watkins I follow Wade, my son, as some do Christ. What good I do is good done in his name. I take his life as pattern...
...And I have tried to love as he loved, but I try in vain...
...1 take my joy from when I feel him near, my pain from doubt that he is here at all, and though my death no longer makes me fear, at death I fear I may not hear him call...
...I take his life as pattern for my life and try to give as freely as he gave, who almost at the moment that he died waved off a nurse to tend a wardmate's pain whose face he never saw...
...If, though I lived him day by day, he's gone, the loss is less, and Hell's already done...
Vol. 124 • June 1997 • No. 12
