1 Pet 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His Eternal Glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

Living.

If life is not filled with pain

would it worth living be?

If contentment  at times was not stained

could it be wholly free?

Perfection formed through suffering

and much wisdom has much grief.

Why protect myself through buffering

the artificial representation of me?

If pure to the core I need to be

in heart and thought through Spirit.

Why does my core acts fancy free

like dis-obedience should produce merit?

On a scale from one to ten

with ten being most earnest.

I could not even get one/tenth

for Truth is always discerning.

So most pain that generates through life

is produced by indifference "mine".

Insensitive, selfish searching through strife

protecting my "home made" shrine.

Jan Wienen