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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Valley (08/10/06)
Christians like to speak of “mountain top experiences” as times of great joy and blessing and associate “valley” with death and aggravation, as in David’s 23rd Psalm, or John Bunyan’s “Valley of Humiliation”. Or how about Joel 3:14: “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.”

But a valley experience can be a joyous one as well. Consider Ezekiel’s vision in the valley of dry bones (see Ezekiel 37). Then the words of Handel and John the Baptist: “Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill brought low.” With this in mind, I wrote the following poem.

REDEMPTION

Bruised and battered memories,
Splinters of broken bones,
Hearts that were cleft in two--
God holds the pieces
In powerful hands.
He could crush them to powder
And scatter them on the mountaintops.
Gone would be the cries of souls in anguish,
The screams of men in hell.
The souls of babes aborted
Would never see the light
Or blind receive their sight.
Is this the end?

There in the Valley of Decision
A lily springs up
And a new day dawns.
He walks among the gravesites,
Identifies his own.
Fragile pieces are knit together
And given new strength and purpose.
Ashes rise up
And sing for joy
And the mountains are ground to dust.
The lamb will lay down with the lion
As we make our way to Zion
Where the King has claimed His throne.
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Virginia Gorg
08/18/06
Nice poetry! I think you could have left off the explanation at the beginning - the prose and style speak clearly. Good flow and says a lot in a few words :)
Barbara Ann Smith
08/21/06
The beginning gave some wonderful message to look up and read about the different types of vally's we experience. The poem is written well and with much meaning. Thanks for a Great Poem!