“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Hebrews 12:11 The Gardener picked up his pruning shears,The sharpest ones with oiled blades so strongThat snipped with ease and never stuck up tight;A barrel for the leavesContinue reading “The Gardener’s Shears”
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Sweet is the Sleep
The labourer at a greenhouse must suffer much for the sweetness of sleep. Some days she doth stand upon her feet for eight hours. She heaveth soil bags of fifty pounds onto the blue machine. When she seeth others watching, she asketh for assistance, but when their backs are all turned, she undertaketh the heavingContinue reading “Sweet is the Sleep”
Inspired to Inspire 