"Heaven's Kiss" [Reflections On Book Powerlines by Leona Frances Choy - Chapter 16, Charles G. Trumbell #16/25]
We had this storybook when we were kids,
Well-meaning, but a joke to us – it rids
One’s life of every danger one could find –
“Safe all day long” it’s theme, still in my mind.“Don’t under ladders walk” (had pictures too);
“Stop, look, and listen” it instructed you;
Page after page, more problems, then some more –
Just like this author – cautions “gifts” galore.So circumscribed a life no one can live;
It gives advice, like Proverbs, yet a sieve
It is because disjointed nuggets, they
Are strung like beads on string – the giver way.For they provide the string for beads they find;
The nuggets, choice to them, strung on their line
Aren’t all that useful when outsiders look,
And certainly result is not a “book”.Which brings us to the “Editor” – whose task
In such a case is finding string at last,
Restringing beads into a string of pearls
In ways which help, not hinder boys and girls.His “String”? It’s “Christ within – our glory’s hope” –
If any hope exists, for all must cope
With factors in and out of self each day –
“Christ joins with us – He doesn’t outside stay”.“So Christ it is whom people meet in me;
Not “Me” helped by His power which people see,
Unless I block His union with myself;
On Kingdom-layer I’m down off the shelf.For now the photos made are made by Him;
New life in Christ by others can begin,
If they will open up to change of life,
And come, through heaven’s-kiss, from dark to light.Thanks Lord for this.
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