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Tuesday Breakfast Notes #27


 

Building or Wrecking


For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.


Hebrews 3:4

 

I first came across this poem as a senior in high school, and it continues to come to mind every so often. I know my mom will remember it! It's not much writing from me this week, but the words felt like what I was supposed to share with you. Have you seen this poem before?

"A Builder or a Wrecker"

by Charles Franklin Benvegarf


As I watched them tear 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 side wall fell


I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled,

And the men you'd hire if you wanted to build?"

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 builders have taken years 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 who works with care,

Measuring life by rule and square?

Am I shaping my work to a well-made plan

Patiently doing the best I can'


Or am I wrecker who walks to town

Content with the labor of tearing down?

"O Lord let my life and my labors be

That which will build for eternity!"



The angel reading, June 2021.

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