Latent Prints

latent prints of the Potter
invisible to the naked eye
but still there written
God’s hands leaving a mark

pressed into my clay
the marks of the potter
the loops, the arches, the whorls
visible only within me

in my inmost parts
the ridge patterns evident
God molding my dust
with hands, with fingers

God’s mark upon me
deep within, lasting
latent prints there too
if we would only see


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Edited September 6, 2012
new poem – “Latent Prints”
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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