Saturday
Feb062010
two churches
Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:34AM (My apologies to Robert Frost.)
Two churches diverged in yellow wood,
And sorry i could not have pastored both
And be one pastor, long i stood
And preached down one as long as i could
Until the babies screamed in the crying room;
Then i accepted the call to the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it had no deacons there;
But as for the stewardship campaign
Had worn them down about the same,
And the other that moment equally lay
In debt, no budget in the black.
Oh, i accepted to my wife’s dismay!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
We settled in at the lowly shack.
i shall be telling this with a sigh
Some Southern Baptist Convention ages and ages hence:
Two churches diverged in a wood, and i,
i took the one that required no coat or tie,
And that has made all the difference.
Two churches diverged in yellow wood,
And sorry i could not have pastored both
And be one pastor, long i stood
And preached down one as long as i could
Until the babies screamed in the crying room;
Then i accepted the call to the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it had no deacons there;
But as for the stewardship campaign
Had worn them down about the same,
And the other that moment equally lay
In debt, no budget in the black.
Oh, i accepted to my wife’s dismay!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
We settled in at the lowly shack.
i shall be telling this with a sigh
Some Southern Baptist Convention ages and ages hence:
Two churches diverged in a wood, and i,
i took the one that required no coat or tie,
And that has made all the difference.
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