Poem April 20, 2020 Issue

Peck and shed

Lona Ingwerson

The goal,
it seems to me,
in this human experience
is to simply grow closer to God—
to grow in grace,
to see God, good, more clearly in everyone,
to see His hand in everything.
Easy for some?
A bit of work for most of us,
but
the nice part about this opportunity,
if I may say so,
is that it makes all the difference:
A chick does have to peck at that egg shell;
the butterfly does need to shed what needs shedding;
so we need not resist or resent
our need to peck and shed.

—Lona Ingwerson

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