My dear brothers,

I know Who created you, that’s why I expect so much from you guys.

And to my dad, who set the bar really high for the men in my life.

_________

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 a great and so bold a man
That all the world shall 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 that 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.

(Anonymous)

- repost from December 19, 2007