Make Fun Of Life!
  • Learning
    • Alphabet
    • Numbers
    • Foods
    • Time
    • Activities
    • Elocution
    • English Grammar
    • Colors
  • Holidays
    • New Year's Day
    • Groundhog Day
    • Valentine's Day
    • Easter
    • Arbor Day
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving Day
    • Christmas
    • Birthdays
  • Inspiration
    • Everyday Inspiration
    • Christian Faith
    • Christian Quotations
    • Personal Development
    • Moral Conduct
    • Disability
    • Physical Fitness
    • Work
  • Library
    • Fairy Tales
    • Adventure
    • Horror
    • Quotationary
    • Quotation Collections
    • Picture Quotations
    • Stories With Morals
    • Nursery Rhymes
    • Essays
    • Correspondence
  • Life
    • Childhood
    • Friendship
    • Adulthood
    • Marriage
    • Parenting
    • Family
    • Generations
    • In Memory
  • Serious
    • Serious Topics
    • Serious Poems
    • Child Abuse
    • Website Index
    • Website Information
  • Silly
    • Nonsense
    • Limericks
    • Fake News
    • Beaumont's Bits
    • Picture Jokes
  • Society
    • Geography
    • History
    • Biography
    • Americana
  • World
    • Animals
    • Plants
    • Nature
    • Seasons
    • Weather

The Vessel

4/8/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Vessel
 
The Master was searching for a vessel to use;
     On the shelf there were many - which one would He choose?
“Take me,” cried the gold one, “I’m shiny and bright,
     I’m of great value and I do things just right.
My beauty and luster will outshine the rest
     And for someone like You, Master, gold would be the best!”
 
The Master passed on with no word at all;
     He looked at a silver urn, narrow and tall;
“I’ll serve You, dear Master, I’ll pour out Your wine
     And I’ll be at Your table whenever You dine,
My lines are so graceful, my carvings so true,
     And my silver will always compliment You.”
 
Unheeding, the Master passed on to the brass,
     It was wide-mouthed and shallow, and polished like glass.
“Here! Here!” cried the vessel, “I know I will do,
     Place me on Your table for all men to view.”
 
“Look at me,” called the goblet of crystal so clear,
      “My transparency shows my contents so dear,
Though fragile am I, I will serve You with pride,
     And I’m sure I’ll be happy in Your house to abide.”
 
The Master came next to a vessel of wood,
     Polished and carved, it solidly stood.
“You may use me, dear Master,” the wooden bowl said,
      “But I’d rather You used me for fruit, not for bread!”
Then the Master looked down and saw a vessel of clay.
     Empty and broken it helplessly lay.
No hope had the vessel that the Master might choose,
     To cleanse and make whole, to fill and to use.
 
“Ah! This is the vessel I’ve been hoping to find,
     I will mend and use it and make it all Mine.”
“I need not the vessel with pride of its self;
     Nor the one who is narrow to sit on the shelf;
Nor the one who is bigmouthed and shallow and loud;
     Nor one who displays his contents so proud;
Not the one who thinks he can do all things just right;
     But this plain earthy vessel filled with My power and might.”
 
Then gently He lifted the vessel of clay.
     Mended and cleansed it and filled it that day.
Spoke to it kindly. “There’s work you must do,
     Just pour out to others as I pour into you.”
  
-Author Unknown
google.com, pub-5004046848211730, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Further fantastically fascinating frivolity and factuality await you on the Make Fun Of Life! Website if you will courageously click or tap on any of the blinking images or colorful words below.

    Picture
    ​Activities

    Picture
    ​​Adulthood

    Picture
    Adventure​

    Picture
    ​Alphabet

    Picture
    ​​​Americana

    Picture
    ​Animals

    Picture
    ​Arbor Day

    Picture
    ​Beaumont’s Bits

    Picture
    ​Biography

    Picture
    ​Birthdays

    Picture
    ​Child Abuse

    Picture
    ​Childhood

    Picture
    ​Christian Faith

    Picture
    ​Christian Quotations

    Picture
    ​Christmas

    Picture
    ​Colors

    Picture
    ​Correspondence

    Picture
    ​Disability

    Picture
    Easter

    Picture
    ​Elocution

    Picture
    ​English Grammar

    Picture
    ​Essays

    Picture
    ​Everyday Inspiration

    Picture
    ​Fairy Tales

    Picture
    ​Fake News

    Picture
    ​Family

    Picture
    ​Foods

    Picture
    Friendship

    Picture
    ​Generations

    Picture
    ​Geography

    Picture
    ​​Groundhog Day

    Picture
    ​Halloween

    Picture
    ​History

    Picture
    ​Holidays

    Picture
    ​Horror

    Picture
    ​In Memory

    Picture
    Picture
    ​Inspiration

    Picture
    ​Learning

    Picture
    ​Library

    Picture
    ​Life

    Picture
    ​Limericks

    Picture
    ​Marriage

    Picture
    ​Moral Conduct

    Picture
    ​Nature

    Picture
    ​New Year’s Day

    Picture
    ​Nonsense

    Picture
    ​Numbers

    Picture
    ​Nursery Rhymes

    Picture
    ​Parenting

    Picture
    ​Personal Development

    Picture
    ​​Physical Fitness

    Picture
    ​Picture Jokes

    Picture
    ​Picture Quotations

    Picture
    ​Plants

    Picture
    ​Quotation Collections

    Picture
    ​​Quotationary

    Picture
    ​Seasons

    Picture
    ​Serious

    Picture
    ​Serious Poems

    Picture
    ​Serious Topics

    Picture
    ​Silly

    Picture
    ​Society

    Picture
    ​Stories with Morals

    Picture
    ​Thanksgiving Day

    Picture
    ​Time

    Picture
    ​Valentine’s Day

    Picture
    ​Weather

    Picture
    ​Website Index

    Picture
    ​Website Information

    Picture
    ​Work

    Picture
    ​World

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    ​Do you need a joke, quotation, paragraph, or poem about a particular subject or topic? Go to the search box found at the top right side of this page and type it in. We have a surprising variety of material and we add new stuff regularly, so you might find what you are seeking.

    Picture
    Picture
    The fully searchable King James Bible with Apocrypha is online, along with Bible trivia, Bible dictionary, discussion community, and much more. Simply click on King James Bible.

    Picture
    Picture
    ​Make Fun Of Life! can be right there with you, at home or wherever you go, on a laptop, cell phone, tablet, or any other internet connected device. Bookmark us and visit whenever you can. We regularly add fascinating new material just for you!

    Picture
    Picture
    When you reach the bottom of this page on Make Fun Of Life! click on <<Previous or Forward>> to see the next page.

    Picture
    Picture
    You are now on the Make Fun Of Life! Website . . . where humor, inspiration, and learning are back together again - as they were always meant to be.

    Picture
    Picture
    ​​​​Dedicated to the Glory of God, The Cyber Hymnal™ has more than 14,000 Christian hymns and Gospel songs of many denominations and in many languages, with lyrics, sheet music, audio, biographies, pictures, history, and more. A searchable website with free downloads. Click on The Cyber Hymnal.

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Welcome to the Make Fun Of Life! Website. We are here to bring a little happiness to the world. Would you like to be among the first people to see new articles when they appear on the website? Click on the social media buttons on the left side of your screen and then follow us. We wish you the very best imaginable day, and thank you for visiting!

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly