The Builder

The Builder

I saw them tearing a building down
A group of men in a busy town.
With hefty blow and a lusty yell,
They swung with zest and a whole wall fell. 


Asked of the foreman,
" Are those men skilled?
The kind you would hire here
If you had to build?"


He looked at me and laughed.
"No, indeed! Unskilled laborers is all I need!
Why they can wreck in a day or two
what has taken builders years to do."


I asked myself as I went away,
Which of these roles I  have tried to play.
Am I a builder with rule and square,
measuring and constructing with skill and care?
Or am I the wrecker who walks through town,
content with the business of tearing down?


( Anonymous. As shared by Dr. David Jeremiah.)


Pondering these thoughts today.