Uplifting Life

Life--complex gift received of God's great hands; no choice have we. When life begins we are unaware even that we live. The sands in life's brief glass fall beneath shepherding star. Childhood's lessons, meant to chart roads ahead are painful memories, unfortunate, for babes unwanted, ill, or filled with dread of abuse, born of souls degenerate. Propelled by time's swift wave, proportional or not the hard trials that befall our way, our response we govern: build bitter walls or live knowing grief cannot joy outweigh. I would not blame divine hands who life gave, for on His kind palm me He did engrave. Reference to Isaiah 49:16 ESV Behold, I have engraved you on the palm of my hands; your walls are continually before me. Copyright, July 9, 2014 Faye Lanham Gibson