At Best This I Could Do!

Be they deeds big or small,

I should let You do them all,

And so be freed from praise and blame,

And also from all pride and shame,

For ‘my’ actions there’d be none,

All You Yourself would’ve done,

Then I could rest, being assured,

And of all fear then fully cured,

Knowing that no wrong did I do,

All ‘my’ deeds being done by You.

Nor would I then feel any regret,

Nor by boastful arrogance beset,

For, if You did all ‘my’ deeds, not I,

How could I exult in them or cry?

At best what I could do is watch and see

You doing all ‘my’ deeds through me!