Photo Credit:
Mel Schockner
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 West Texas juniper on walnut - H23",L51"-1976 Photo by Mel Schockner Second Chance
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This piece of wood records the times and trials of this fair land; each time of poor or plenty is marked by a double band.
The many years together shape a pattern and a form. The hand of God, through hand of man, gives this tree a life reborn.
By submitting to the will of God the twig became a timber, in yielding up it's ancient shape became a beauty to remember.
For one thing is most certain all control is in God's hand, whether it be the shaping of a tree or His plan for the life of man.
So don't resist the Master's hand when He moves to shape your life; a masterpiece He'll make you, unless you twist beneath the knife,
and cause by your own wisdom, the blindness to remain when by trusting God and His loving Son, you could be born to live again.
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