DIAMONDS

 

Diamonds

Silently falling glitter

sparkles as they float nearer

like sequins

or diamonds.

Effervescent,

almost transparent

these white orbs

from heaven poured.

Weightless, one-by-one

they quickly adorn

everything they happen to touch,

though sometimes turning into mush.

Floating, like feathers in one's hand,

like a twinkle from a fairy's wand,

lasting for a second unless

the surface is coldly dressed.

If the surface is frozen

then these diamonds have chosen

to stay for a while.

Some will smile.

Others will frown

for that means towns

are covered with snow

to plow or to blow.

Do be sure to look for

diamonds in the snow are

like glitter that sparkles

and sequins that twinkle.

Jewels from on high

these gems from the sky

adorning the earth

when diamonds drop forth.

* * * * *

Like diamonds in the snow

you are precious, you know.

Like a jewel in a crown glows

your life does adorn and grow

although sometimes life's hard blows

will cause you sorrow and woe.

Those tears you sow

will later grow

into a glow

as you help others who are low

in their own sorrows and woes.

You'll sparkle from head to toe.

So though sorrows that bestow

grief and heartaches of "oh no"

that one often undergoes

have a purpose, although

we'd prefer not to undergo,

in the end there's a glow that grows.

Like the sparkle of a diamond glows

our sorrows are someday meant to show

that God is faithful and will bestow

His beauty on everything below.

A diamond in the rough from head to toe

is being chiseled from sorrows and woes.

The Lord their God will save them on that day

as the flock of his people.

They will sparkle in his land

like jewels in a crown.

How attractive and beautiful they will be!

Zechariah 9:16-17

Choose my instruction instead of silver,

knowledge rather than choice gold,

for wisdom is more precious than rubies,

and nothing you desire can compare with her.

Proverbs 10:11

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