It is as if these types of people are a log of wood

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III


Jonah

It is as if these types of people are a log of wood taken by the "Son of the carpenter" who works with them. He takes part of this beam of wood by the plane, part o f it by the saw, and part by hammer. 'thus He keeps sawing, cleaning, and cutting it, making a pattern from it and nailing it until it becomes a nice chair for Him to rest in. Or as though we are a piece of clay handled by the Great Potter, who moulds it until it becomes a vessel for honor. He is God whose Spirit was hovering over the face of the waters and continued to work until He changed the earth which was desolate, void and covered in darkness into this beautiful nature of whose beauty poets and writers sing.