These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Shakespearean Sonnet: "Finding the Gold in the Ore"

The situation could be rather tough
without the hope of finding gold within.
The One we serve is every whit enough
to bring us good when souls against us sin.

We do much better when we think the best
of fellowmen upon this Terran sod.
The actions, that may seem a selfish test
become the heat, that's used in us by God.

To think, that God in gentle process breaks
the ugliness in our own outer shell
removes some pain, that otherwise it makes
deliv'ring us from our own inner hell.

The dinginess and crust of ore is gone,
that gold may shine and stand His floor upon.

by Jay O'Toole
on January 26th, 2021/size}