Monday Moments - a better builder

DESTROYER OR BUILDER?

(Author Unknown)

I watched them tear a building down

a gang of men in a busy town

with a heave ho-ho and a lusty yell,

they swung a beam and a side wall fell.

I asked the foreman "Are these men skilled

and the men you'd hire if you had to build?"

He had a long 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 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 who works with care

measuring life by the rule and the square?

And shaping my deeds to a well made plan,

patiently doing the best that I can?

Or am I a wrecker who walks the town

content with the labor of tearing down?

I came across this last night as I was going through some stuff. It made me think. With the holiday season in full swing and the new year quickly approaching...I've been thinking a lot lately.

I really want to be a builder. I want to "work with care" and "shape my deeds to a well made plan". I know I really appreciate the people in my life that build me up. Those that inspire and make me feel good about myself. My goal...to be a better builder to others.