This poem was inspired by a friend who spoke of creating something beautiful out of the discarded and the unwanted............for you Helen.
Lord you take the discarded, all we cast aside
And you treasure and nurture, regard with great pride
for you name as your own each and every, bar none
Since you loved us enough to send Jesus your son.
No "unwanted", no "useless", no one "past their best"
Unhindered by age or ill health or the rest
of the things that we feel our worth would deny
Your perception is greater than our natural eye.
You delight in restoring the damaged and broken
with long term solutions, not temporary token
No half hearted "patching up" measures you take
For you deal in wholeness when souls are at stake.
You take broken pieces, the lost you restore
We come with so little, gain abundantly more
Your ways may we replicate, help us to view
The people around us the way that you do,
To somehow look deeper, more clearly behold
Beneath surface grime lie traces of gold.
Karen Holmes
September 28th 2012
