This isn't mine but is somethng I desperately need to hear!

I did a significant amount of crying today and dialogue with God about my life.  This poem came to mind - something I have heard Ravi Zacharias read in a few of his lectures.  I can't say that it made me stop crying - maybe even a little worse than before.  But it is very healing to read it!
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When God wants to drill a man,

And thrill a man,

And skill a man

When God wants to mold a man

To play the noblest part;

When He yearns with all His heart

To create so great and bold a man

That all the world shall be amazed,

Watch His methods, watch His ways!

How He ruthlessly perfects

Whom He royally elects!

How He hammers him and hurts him,

And with mighty blows converts him

Into trial shapes of clay which

Only God understands;

While his tortured heart is crying

And he lifts beseeching hands!

How He bends but never breaks

When his good He undertakes;

How He uses whom He chooses,

And which every purpose fuses him;

By every act induces him

To try His splendor out-

God knows what He's about.

--- Author Unknown -----