A Child Like Clay

A child like clay is pliable Guidance molds him with each day With right values, he grows up able To live his life and not go astray. A child like clay adapts the form He bends and follows as one leads To what is true he will conform Absorbing the wisdom that he needs. A child like clay when left alone Hardens up warped and marred, To doing wrong he is always prone, His life is a mess, he ends up scarred. A child like clay when hardened wrong Will need a thorough brokenness A crushing from which he will be strong A new creation, born from forgiveness - 'Stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path, he who hates correction will die.' Proverbs 15: 10 - Copyright Cynthia Buhain-Baello February 2010 Philippines