Kaleidoscope of Life

by Jalisa Wenger - Used by permission

 

An array of sparkling colors

Set in perfect symmetry

Constitutes a changing picture

Which we cannot fully see.

 Gems of variegated brilliance

Congregate with somber stones.

Deeper shades enhance the beauty

Of the richly colored tones.

 Amid rubies in resplendence

Near the sapphire's brilliant hue

Set among the amber earth tones,

Jewels of white enhance the view.

 Sparkling diamonds carved by hardship.

Glowing pearls formed in pain.

In the Great Designer's wisdom

Hardship brings us greater gain.

 

Though we cherish vibrant patterns

And we're loathe to see them go,

Yet they too must be relinquished

To the circulating flow.

 Though our lives are ever changing

Still our hearts can be at rest.

For the Great Designer uses

Only colors He sees best.

 

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,

behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear:

and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

Isaiah 54:11-14