Things Are Not Always What they Seem...

PAD Challenge day 14: For today’s prompt, pick a popular saying and make that the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

The harder the battle the sweeter the victory-Roland

Things are not always what they seem;the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden . Phaedrus


Things are not always what they seem

Dreams, darling with delight

After their thrill of whim is filled

Cannot quell appetite

Free will, feels freer than it is

Never free of its charge

Where we adore or just ignore

The love of God at large

The voice of choice often seems small

And quite irrelevant

Yet, it begets the seed that sets

In motion, what we plant

Things are not always what they seem

Life’s trial and its hurt

Produces in its end, my friend

A patience-perfect work

© Janet Martin

 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.  

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, 

not lacking anything.…

James 1:2-4