“For we are God’s Masterpiece…” (Ephesians 2:10, NLT)

What masterpiece arrests you?
What artwork thrills, yet tests you?
What manmade craft invites you?
Inspires, enthralls, and

Smites you, yet delights you?

Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa?
The bowing Tow’r of Pisa?
Mike’s Pieta so tearful
Or Sistine scene,

Pleasing, yet plum fearful?

Stained glass of Notre Dame?
The Giza Sphinx of fame?
Manhattan’s Times Square Plaza?
Navona’s fresh and

Fountainous Piazza?

What genius compositions
By classical musicians
Tattoo your heart with beauties
Give joy and strength to

Ease those heavy duties?

Scarlatti’s fun sonatas?
Bach’s choral-rich cantatas?
Van Beethoven’s quartets
Or Mozart’s moving

Sets of minuets?

Gus Mahler’s mighty “Titan”?
Rich Wagner’s “Flight” will frighten!
Debussy’s “Clair de lune”?
Tchaikovsky’s cracking

Tunes with glory-strewn?

Yet Solomon’s finest could never compare
To nature’s most humble and plain lily fair (cf. Mt. 5)
But nature’s best work, not sweet Mona’s smirk
Not fav’rites by Handel

Could dare hold a candle

To THE Masterwork

God’s Masterpiece! To some, disguised
Unseen, unloved, unrecognized
The Apex of His works, despised
“The Human Being”! We’ll be surprised
One day by folks we loved, ignored
To see they hid our thirsting Lord
Immortal bearers of Christ’s Face
Each thirsting member of our race

God’s Grandest Masterpiece, bar none
Among the creatures He has wrought
His Mother Mary, spotless one
Unstained by sin, by shame unfraught

This chosen one, to bear His Son
God crafted special, sparing naught
She, through the Holy Spirit, spun
The One Whose death

Our death

Dead caught

Be not afraid, nor be distraught!
Heav’n’s King and Queen for you have fought
They fight on fierce for you and kin
So let them in o’er sin to win
Let Mary lead you once again
To love Her Son, through thick and thin

To love Christ through

Each word and deed

And thought