Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Grace for your spirit June 18, 2014

Grace for your spirit
Fathers, do not provoke  your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.  Ephesians 6:4
In my generation, we have went from "Father knows Best", to "Father Knows Zilch".  We all need to remember that need to be building bridges for the next generation.  I think this poem helps.
An old man, going a lone highway, came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide.The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned, when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,“You are wasting strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again will pass this way; You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide- Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?
The builder lifted his old gray head: “Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said, “There followeth after me today, A youth, whose feet must pass this way.This chasm, that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

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