Maybe I’ll Shine

August 14, 2012 at 9:37 am · Filed under Daily Encouragements, Inspiration, Poems, Uncategorized ·Tagged Charles L. Mashburn, dust, encouragement, God, http://dversepoets.com/2012/08/14/openlinknight-week-57/, light, love, poetry, writer

This is something new for me. I don’t often write poems of a religious nature, but as I read today’s “Daily Encouragement”, I saw a poem in it. So if you read the encouragement this morning, this will sound very familiar. You can also listen to me read this one if you’d like to.

Audio version of “Maybe I’ll Shine”. <— click on the title

Maybe I’ll Shine

Have you ever looked at something

Something you’ve seen many times before

And suddenly it looks different      

Maybe it’s the way the light hits it

That obviously happens

A table that looked clean the day before

Looks dusty when the morning light streams across it

The light of God’s love shows things as they truly are

I cringe at the thought

Wondering how I must appear

When God’s light shines upon me

But then I ponder God’s love

And the fact that He loved me

Even before I knew Him

And I realize His love is much the same

As the morning light on the table

As it suddenly occurs to me

Things are not as I thought they were

… They’re better

I am far from perfect                               

I’m a bit dusty, blemished, and scarred

But like an old chunk of coal

I am being worked and polished

And one day…

Maybe I’ll shine

Copyright © 2012 C. Mashburn

Pictures courtesy of Google Images

Sharing this with dVerse Poets Pub on their Open Link Night ~ Week 57

Audio version of “Maybe I’ll Shine”. <— click on the title

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