Patent Prints

Patent prints of the Potter
clear, visible to the naked eye
the stain of my sin
the blood of my Savior
the potter, the Christ
God’s hands leaving a mark

lifting me from death
from my sin, my shame
pressed into my clay
the marks of the potter
the loops, the arches, the whorls
his blood splattered
visible only within me

God’s mark upon me
deep within, lasting
latent prints there too
if we would only see
in my inmost parts
the ridge patterns evident
God molding my dust, plastic
with hands, with fingers


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Edited September 6, 2012
new poem – “Latent Prints”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/latent-prints.html
Edited September 6, 2012
“Marked by the Potter – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/marked-by-potter-v2.html
September 5, 2012
new poem, “Plastic Prints”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/plastic-prints.html
Fingerprint articles, including Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint
June 30, 2008 and July 1, 2008
earlier poem “Marked by the Potter”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_4977.html
Jeremiah 18:1-4, Jeremiah 18:1-12 and
Upper Room devotional for June 30, 2008
http://www.upperroom.org/Devotional/default.asp?month=6&day=30&year=2008&x=107&y=6



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