Do not change, friend Don't let the lie of conformity rob you of LifeBelieve only the voices of your beauty For your uniqueness is the face of my God Your expression of his indescribable creativity I, like you, have known the scorn of the 'normal' I have allowed the pressure of un-identity to devalue me But Christ did not allow it Within me he refused to die From beneath the weight of petty proprieties Life forced his way back into my conscience And has exposed the stupidity of sameness For uniformity is the work of the evil one I am reborn into the Truth of my conception To light lamps of creation To dance in the richness of anticipation For Life is not to know only that which is found But to find that which is not yet known I am alive in the knowing of Life But driven by the hunger to yet know Him For knowing the infinite is inexhaustible But to know only the known is stagnation So, please friend, delight in your difference For in you something new is revealed Another aspect of God's beauty So be grateful for sharing the new For we who know what you are doing Are joyed to see more of God through you I was once bound by uniformity But now with you I live to be peculiar And reveal Him in ways inimitable Stephen Pursell, original: 12/01, revised: 11/13/14 |  |
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