This is a second guest post this week from my friend Katie Williams while I’m off in the mountains with my family. Follow Katie here and check out her face-painting ministry here. After a long break we’ll be back to the blog next week, picking up where we left off with some thoughts about Children’s Ministry and the Senior Pastor and also a book review for my friend Larry Shallenberger.
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I heard this poem in church one day, I often reread it during the most busy times of my life to help me stay on track.
When I’m stressed, tired, overworked and under appreciated I have the potential to become a wrecker. But if I’m aware, and intentional, I can take that negative energy and turn it into becoming a great builder.
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I watched them tearing a building down,?A gang of men in a busy town.?With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,?They swung a beam and the sides fell.
I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled?And the kind you would hire, if you had to build?”?And he gave a laugh and said, No indeed,?Just common labor is all I need.?I can easily wreck in a day or two?What other builders have taken a year to do.”
And I thought to myself as I went my way,?”Which of these roles have I tried to play??Am I a builder that works with care?Measuring life by the rule and square.?Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan,?Patiently doing the best I can??Or am I a wrecker who walks the town,?Content with the labor of tearing down.”
- The author is unknown.
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What will you be this week, this month, this year? A builder or a wrecker? You have the power to choose.
