HORSESHOES

HORSESHOES
By Neal Torrey
(C) 2000 All Rights Reserved

Did you ever sit and ponder; have you ever stopped to wonder
Why horseshoes seem to have all the luck?
When life pitches you a sinker, or your fire becomes a clinker,
And you find yourself mired deeply in the muck…
When trouble comes to fell you, no one really needs to tell you;
Live throws more things at us than we can duck!
When you find a horseshoe, and nail it up, of course you
Must invert it so the luck does not run out.
I harbor a real suspicion that’s just a silly superstition.
Horseshoes make their own luck without doubt.
the horseshoe lasts much longer, because it’s made far stronger
Than the rocky ground we travel in this life.
Because it’s been superheated, it’s not about to be defeated
By any heat that comes from daily strife.
A sudden plunge in icy water must certainly be a shocker,
But it gets those metal molecules aligned.
Tempered by the two extremes, however shocking that it seems,
That horseshoe will meet any test it finds.
When God puts you in the fire and the temperature goes higher,
It’s done so that your gold may be refined.
When life hits you with a shocker; like a plunge in icy water,
God has put you through a special kind of test.
Each trip through the Refiner’s Fire, and the tempering that transpires,
is God’s special way of bringing out your best.