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Into His Peace

We see
the shattered pieces
of broken hearts
and broken lives –
a kaleidoscope
of pain.
Accustomed
to our humanness,
we find it
strangely beautiful,
this diversity
of human pain
and brokenness.

But then we see
the one broken
by broken men,
marred
and scarred
beyond recognition,
done to death
on human scaffold –
his scarred face
the beauty
of the Healer.
His wounds
bring the broken
to wholeness,
drawing
the shattered pieces
into his Peace.


© Peter J Blackburn 2004
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