Poem by Joni Erickson Tada

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When God wants to drill a man,

And thrill a man, and skill a man,

When God wants to mold a man

To play the noblest part,

When He yearns with all His heart

To build so great and bold a man

That all the world shall be amazed,

Then watch His methods, watch His ways!

How He ruthlessly perfects

Whom He royally elects:

How He hammers him and hurts him,

And with mighty blows converts him

Into shapes and forms of clay

Which only God can understand

While man's tortured heart is crying

And he lifts beseeching hands...

Yet God bends but never breaks

When man's good He undertakes;

How He uses whom He chooses,

And with mighty power infuses him,

With every act induces him to try His splendor out.

God knows what He's about!

 

 

Joni Erickson Tada