Build on the positive

Seems we have had an overabundance of negativity in our community lately, with problems concerning water wells running dry, hospital-doctor disputes and empty business buildings. I recently read the following taken from the summer 2009 Masons Tribune and thought it was worth sharing.

BUILDING

I watched them tearing a building down

A gang of men in a busy town

With a yo-heave-ho and a lusty yell

They swung a beam and the side wall fell.

I asked the foreman “Are these men skilled ----

The kind you would hire if you wanted to build?”

He laughed and said, “Why, no, indeed,

Just common labor is all I need.

They can easily wreck in a day or two

What builders have taken years to do”.

I asked myself as I went my way,

Which of these roles have I tried today?

Am I a builder who works with care,

Measuring life by the rule and square,

Shaping my deeds by the well-laid plan,

Patiently doing the best I can?

Or am I a wrecker who walks the town

Content with the labor of tearing down?

----Anonymous

Thelma Sprenger, Ritzville