Every day there's an artist in our soul
Transforming us with love
God's at work more than we know
For us to live above

Each day, our life may waste away
Yet, each day we are renewed
In all our struggles, pain and grief
God knows just what to do

Just as every autumn leaf will fall
To bud more life to come
So our life down here shall fade
To grow in everlasting love

His life is opening up in us
Although we may not see it yet
He's unfolding deep within our hearts
The beauty He bequests

He gave us life in just jars of clay
To display the more of Him
As the potter, He makes us all
To shine His light within

So each day the love He gives
Is greater than deaths' coldest fear
The eternal glory he has planned
Is to bring us very near

We can rejoice our bodies age
Because within, we're made alive
He has a greater life for us
One that will never ever die

Soft Whispers from
© Derry's Heart Poems
2006

But we have this treasure in jars of clay
to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory
that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
1 Cor 4:7,16-18