Hey Friends,

We all know it is hard not to be self-focused and self-absorbed! Come on, let’s be real, you know it to be true. The number one word used in the English language is “I.”

As leaders it is beyond imperative that we carefully consider those who will follow in our footsteps. This is even more important for those of us leading in the Kingdom of God – His Church!

Henry Ward Beecher said: “We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom; and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.”

This is awesome, written by a Tennessean named Will Allen Dromgoole:

The Bridge Builder

An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and grey,
To 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 of the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“Your 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 pit-fall be,
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

Look behind you. Do you care to help those who will follow in your footsteps?

Just a thought.

Pastor Chris