A Poem for you....

Friends, I received this poem by email and wanted to share it with you. Hope it encourages you as it has encouraged me as we think about suffering in our lives. "We often need to be reminded that God has a much larger perspective and purpose in mind than what is apparent to the heart that is weighted with trouble.."

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 create so great and bold a man,
that all the world will be amazed;
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 trial shapes of clay
which only God understands.

While his tortured heart is crying,
and he lifts beseeching hands,
How he bends but never breaks,
when His good He undertakes.
How He uses whom He chooses,
and with every purpose fuses him,
...by every act induces him,
to try His splendor out;
God knows what he's about.

~Dale Martin Stone