How -- Not Why  

Not why -- dear God --
Please, let me not ask why
This bitter cup,
Nor spend myself
In futile questioning;
Let me look up --
Help me to face what is
And what must be,
Knowing thou seest what
I may not see.
Not why -- but how --
Lord, help me find the way
That this, my grief,
In some divine
And mystic manner may
Help my belief --
May mellow, strengthen,
Fortify my soul,
That I may better reach
Thine unseen goal.
Dear God -- the clouds hang
Heavy in my sky --
Oh, give me grace to question
How -- not why.