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Sorrow into Joy

Circling
around
myself
life seems
so unreasonable
so unfair
so painful...
I cannot see
beyond
my negativity.
God
must have forgotten
all about me!

But then I see
a cross
and one
who dies
in cruel agony,
bearing
a load
not rightly his,
feeling
human hate and
"My God,
why
have you left me
all alone?"

In that
incredible
love
I see
and find
the grace of God
turning
my sorrow
into joy.


© Peter J Blackburn 2003
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