A stony heart
Matthew 5:44-45 New English Translation (NET Bible)
44 But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
A stony heart
Son-shine in the morning can melt a heart of stone
Baking heat in the afternoon can’t do much more
Just heating up the mourning of the dead man’s bones
So the odor of this gloom will knock on every door
“Dead is dead”, a common phrase but who’s the judge of that
Who knows what life is about, unless it is Life, Him-self
Really in every appointed case judges are destined to fall flat
For to judge is a foggy deadly cloud that hangs above our head
Will a rainy day somehow soften a heart of stone?
Or will the tears taste bitter and so to be spit out?
Is this vessel clay determines to be prone
To the hunger for the better so to fulfill itself in doubt?
Jan Wienen