Blog 723 – 08.15.2027

Take A Chance Make A Choice

On every chance taken
A new adventure turns
With each shaky step
The traveler learns.

Since I started out yesterday’s blog with an original poem and that seemed to work I thought I would try it again. In my three years of preacher training in Bible college and before that actually I learned that a good short message can consist of three points and a poem. The old preacher described his sermon style as:
1. First,I tells ’em what I’m gonna tell ’em.
2. Then, I tells ’em what I tells ’em.
3. Then, I tells ’em what I told ’em.

Three points or one point expressed in three different ways or from three different angles is pretty good sermon structure. And some use a good illustration rather than a poem. I like a good illustration, or a song but then they are usually poems put to music.

What is my point? I will try to say it clearly just once. The Indigo Girls in their beautiful song Water Shed sing:

Up on the watershed
Staring at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
Till your agony’s your heaviest load

Never fly as the crow flies
Get used to a country mile
When you’re learning to face
The path in your face
Every choice is worth your while.

We worry way too much about which road to take. There is something new and wonderful up and down each of them. True travelers know all roads eventually lead home. So take a chance and make a choice.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White