• A Mother's Influence

  Contributed by Scott Malone on Apr 5, 2005 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Children, Parenting

  Denomination: Baptist

A Mother’s Influence

I took a piece of plastic clay

And idly fashioned it one day;

And as my fingers pressed it still

It moved and yielded at my will.

I came again when days were past,

The form I gave it still it bore,

And as my fingers pressed it still,

I could change that form no more.

I took a piece of living clay,

And gently formed it day by day,

And molded with my power and art,

A young child’s soft and yielding heart.

I came again when days were gone;

It was a man I looked upon,

He still that early impress bore,

And I could change it never more.

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Morning Glory, January 8, 1994 .