The Monument

• God,
• Before He sent his children to earth
• Gave each of them
• A very carefully selected package
• Of problems,
• These,
• He promised, smiling,
• Are yours alone, No one
• Else may have the blessings
• These problems will bring you.
• And only you
• Have the special talents and abilities
• That will be needed
• To make these problems
• Your servants.
• Now go down to your birth
• And to your forgetfulness, Know that
• I love you beyond measure.
• These problems that I give you
• Are a symbol of that love.
• These monuments you make of your life
• With the help of your problems
• Will be s symbol of your
• Love for me.

Your Father.

Reference:  Charlie’s Monument Quoted from Blaine M. Yorgason

Thanks to Linda W. for helping me to get this poem “just right”