People may find, perhaps for a time, and very often it is matter of complaint, that they try to attend and cannot; they say the Psalms over with their lips, but their minds are all the while upon their own troubles
Thus they seem to feel to themselves, and they are tempted to say, 'What good is this worship doing me?' But if they persevere they will find, bye and bye, that all their wounds have been healing secretly.
It may be, their seeming weariness is a trial, by which the enemy is permitted to vex them, and if they resolutely refuse to give way to it, it may cease altogether, and they may find, even in this world, what a joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful.
John Keble (1792-1866) English clergyman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
Keble's feast day is kept on 14th. July and a commemoration is observed on 29th.March.
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