I forgot about posting this (sorry it is so long). Thanks for asking.

Sun and Rain
Elva Bontrager 1998

As I dwell on the memories of so many years
And on the lives of most people I know
It surely does seem that we learn from extremes
Let me show you that it's really so
There is sun, there is rain, there is pleasure, there is pain
There is friend, there is foe, there's the stranger that I know
Laughter and tears, hopes mingled with fears
The joy and the grief, the rapture and woe

There are giggles and sighs, hellos and goodbyes
So many of each in our lives
Promises broken and words left unspoken
Things idolized or despised
   Anger and gladness and happy and sadness
   The loves and the hates, the births and the fates
   The pathway supernal, the broad road infernal
   The blink of a day a thousand years away

Through the years I could see my life blown by the wind
Soaring high and then dashed to the ground
Finally I wondered just how much I'd squandered
Having every wind that blows toss me around
A good man's not always right nor the bad man always wrong
Things are not always black or white as I'd thought my whole life long
Instead of haste I've learned patience, deep gratitude for questions
The answers can wait. That, at last, I have found

I don't know all the reasons for life's changing seasons
But whate'er they may bring is what must be
So in all of my dreams, through all life's extremes
I'll take each moment and let it shape me
   I'll take the sun, face the rain, take the pleasure, bear the pain
   Love the friend, love the foe, love the stranger in my home
   Life's extremes are the means, fertile seeds that we need
   To live and to love, to give and to grow.

Yes, there's anger and gladness and happy and sadness
The loves and the hates, the births and the fates
The pathway supernal, the broad road infernal
The blink of a day a thousand years away
The blink of my day a thousand years away