Create

Words can build up or tear down.

God can create new things out of these.

When hard times have come and gone.

The promise of newness keeps us alive.

Seeing things anew, because the old

Way doesn't work any longer. 

Creating things new doesn't mean replacing. 

Creating means getting hands dirty and digging

Into the earthen clay, with hands muddied.

Making it with sweat and tears, not given. 

This is the promised hope, so dig in with hands

Wide open and ready for the work.