WINTER SERIES
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winter beauty
belies danger... all take heed
snow can kill
moonlit snow... behold
mountain hare's... shadows feeding
ermine coated stoats
winter ptarmigan...
shadows that move up hills
white fauna hiding
snow buntings... confounders
white through spring and summer times
there is always one
Categories:
confounders, seasons, snow, weather, winter,
Form: Haiku
Trials to blessings? Is it so
that the evil I encounter
God redeems to good from woe?
Afflictions, vexing confounders,
convulsing me upon the surge,
the Master Potter's implements
to conform me, mold and purge.
Confident His just intent
is with skillful wheel to craft
an object shapely for His pleasure.
Upon the scrap heap never cast
an imperfect caricature,
unyielding to Your purposes,
disobedient to Your plan.
Pliable--not rigid, formless--
surrendered in Your loving hand,
the sharp knife shapes the tender clay;
I flinch beneath the chastening mace:
My God determined to portray
a trophy worth of His grace.
© Faye Lanham Gibson, 6-14-2014
Categories:
confounders, character, christian, god, spiritual,
Form: Lyric