To Be Like Christ - Joni Eareckson Tada

So a friend had this poem posted to their wall on facebook and I did some research about it as they had it listed as unknown.

Well it was actually penned by Joni Eareckson Tada and was quoted in her book A Step Further. 

The discussion in her book leading up to the poem was on the topic regarding our attitudes during trials.  "In short, am I going to be like Christ?"

So when suffering comes, and it does come, the choice is yours.  Read her poem on the matter.

When God wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man, and skill a man,
To play the noblest part;
When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Then watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects,
Whom He royally elects;
How He hammers him and hurts him,
And with mighty blows converts him
Into shapes and forms of clay
which only God can understand
While man's tortured heart is crying
And he lifts beseeching hands...
yet God bonds but never breaks
when man's good He undertakes;
How He uses whom He chooses,
And with might power, infuses him,
with every act induces him to try
His splendor out,
God knows what He's about!