I had a great Thanksgiving yesterday, ate to much food(what else is new)enjoyed a lot of laughter, listened to people be encouraged and built up, saw a bunch of kids just hanging out and enjoying each others company, it was for all intent purposes a church meeting.....absolutely wonderful.
I spoke with my two boys today, just to see how they are doing on their journey's....both are doing well and so much better then I was at their age. You know so many of us "older" ones look back over our lives and wonder how well we did, I guess that comes from wanting to be reassured that in spite of our mistakes and weakness we have left something good behind us. My children bless me so much and make we want to be sure that I am faithful with the time I have left so that perhaps I can see grandchildren and experience the blessing of seeing the favor of God extend to another generation.
I have added a writing from "The Book of Virtues" by William Bennett that I think speaks to the gift of an older generation's responsibility to be faithful for the coming generation.
The Bridge Builder
Will Allen Dromgoole
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 fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other
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 must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide--
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
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 the bridge for him."
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