Perseverance & Waiting for Direction

"If you are too lazy to plow, don't expect a harvest." Proverbs 20: 4

"All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD. Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed." Proverbs 16:2-3

Something Went Wrong

A few years ago I had an opportunity to visit an old run-down, forgotten farm. People had wondered why it had remained empty for so long without a buyer. The place had some good features and even a few old antiques, which had been left behind. So my brother and I, having nothing better to do one day, decided to go and take a look at it. The following poem says best what we discovered as we visited the old place.
Something went wrong
says the empty farm house
in the weed-choked yard,
at the end of the narrow
rutted road.

Something went wrong
says the worn boots
sitting beside the empty corn bin
in the leaky old barn.

Something went wrong
says the rags
forced into cracks of windows
and places plaster had been.

Something went wrong
says the abandoned sand box
made from a John Deere tire,
where lies a half-buried rubber toy cow.

Something went wrong
says the Bible,
in the unopened box,
lying on the dusty floor.

We don't always have an answer for everything, but sometimes what isn't said speaks louder than what people may be saying or conjecturing. The old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” proved itself to be true, as my brother and I stood and surveyed the scene before us.