Diamonds In the Rough

We are diamonds in the rough...

With tools of chisel and hammer

Our God lovingly chips away

Our spirit, our falseness, our iniquities...

To shape us, molds us

Creating a hardness of faith... like a diamond

Sparkling with his inner-beauty...


For God loves us so much

That he employs

Our friends, our family ...creates adversaries

To the task of grinding away

Our likeness... our pride of life

To bring forth diamonds

Polished and worthy

To be set in the crown

Of his Son...

Forever, without end...

Michael Byrd


1 Peter 1:6-7 - In this ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold trials, (7) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of Gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.