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Photo Credit:

Mel Schockner

 

 

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The pictures and poetry in this sight are protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America.  The pictures and poetry may not be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or profit.  Short quotations or occasional page copying for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged.  Permission will be granted upon request.

West Texas juniper - H 48"- Photo by Mel Schockner

 

Freedom's Way

... a cry to God and His response

 

This sculpture won "Best of Show"

at the International Wood Carvers Congress 1n 1994

 

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View similar sculptures in "Treasures of the West" Gallery

 

Click here to see the creation process of this sculpture in a step by step illustration.

By the tens of thousands

we vanished to the grave,

watched our children die,

so powerless to save.

Then they called us savages,

when with no place to hide,

we all too late took a stand,

to turn their crimson tide.

 

Our way of life was taken,

our land, our very soul.

What's left to give our children,

now the white man's in control.

O Great Spirit hear me,

have you turned your back and fled?

My heart has died in bitterness,

my future too seems dead.

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Unforgiveness ties your heart

to the horrors of the past.

Why let bitterness form the mold

from which your dreams are cast?

With eyes upon a grievance,

hands clinging to a right,

is it any wonder

your future's lost from sight?

 

Not one tear has fallen

that I have not felt your ache,

and their is no shackle given Me

I will not gladly break.

For I showed the Way to freedom,

when I forgave you from the tree,

let go the past, 'though it's all you have,

and give your life to Me.

 

 

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