Sarah Chen

Sarah has offered up a poem of her own writing. It is below, with context that Sarah also provided. 

This is a poem I wrote for Andrew's 9th birthday. On birthdays in our family we have treasure hunts to find the gifts. Each person writes a clue that leads to the gift they give. Ideally the clue is a poem that includes some family joke or memory from the past year, as well as where to look for the present. This year I taught Andrew how to pogohop, and had fun giving him challenges and mazes on the sidewalk. I wanted to hide his present by the pogostick, so I wrote this clue: 

Down the driveway in 5 hops, up again in 4

I say "want to play?" and you're out the door 

Stay in the blue boxes or weave around 

Follow the chalk path and don't cross the bounds. 

But I must remind you it wasn't always this way 

You thought it too hard and gave up in dismay 

Only with practice and patience you learned 

These wild new tricks - your perseverance was affirmed.

Like a dufflepud with an extra spring in his stride 

You go bouncing and twirling and boinging with pride 

So when something is hard and you just want to quit 

Just think, in the end you might find it's worth it.

Sarah's favorite Bible verses are both from the book of Psalms:

Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4 

He leads me in the right paths for His name's sake.
Psalm 23:3b

These two verses remind Sarah that God has plans for her better than the ones she can even imagine for herself and that everything she does is for His glory, at work in God's grand plan for the world.