Repentance in Poetry

This is one of those proud-moment posts that most fathers would look forward to publishing. Last month I was working with Micah on his Faith in God for Boys award. Micah is making great progress and understands the principles taught in the program. (Tangent: I wish he would read the scriptures more frequently by himself because he always seems to get a good bit out of each reading session when he commits to it. That is something I still need to push him towards.) After a discussion on the repentance, Micah sat down and wrote the following poem in about 5-10 minutes.

The scanned copy is not the most pristine. So, here is the text of the poem to make things a little easier to read:

Poem on Repentance

Whenever I make a sin or mistake, what must I do? Repent.

Whenever I make a choice I shouldn’t make? Repent.

And from this poem what is the lesson we should take? Repent.

Repentance is one of the things we must learn to go to our Father above.

For a 10-year-old, I think it's pretty impressive, but I may be somewhat biased. It is concise, symmetrical, doctrinally sound, and some rhyming is even thrown in just for fun. There is nothing more important than to learn the principle of repentance at such an early age, for we all know he will need to rely on this principle for the rest of his life and beyond.