'The scars tell of toil and battle
The scars tell of toil and battle
We may go through life and keep our hands very white, unroughened, unwounded — yet at the end we may find that they have wrought nothing, and won nothing.
When an army comes home from victorious war, it is not the regiment with the full ranks of unscarred men that the people cheer most loudly — but the regiment with only a remnant of soldiers, and these bearing the marks of many a battle.
In the same way, hands scarred from conflict with life's enemies are more beautiful when held up before God, than hands white and unwounded and covered with flashing jewels — because the scars tell of toil and battle .