Tag Archives: Sunday School

SUNDAY DINNER

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SUNDAY DINNER

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Sundy dinner–after church–

Our church and theirs…

Mom and Dad would

Wholesome goodness prepare.

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Mom would help Dad with services

For patients on the hill…

My brother and I walked down

To the Methodist Church by our parents’ will.

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Sunday School then the service,

Early service sometimes as well….

Four years apart were we brothers,

Each with experiences, do tell.

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We’d walk back “up the mountain”

Or ride our bikes (or try)…

Depending on which route was taken,

We’d  get back for dinner and pie!

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–Jonathan Caswell

CAN’T DO IT!

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CAN’T DO IT!

He’d like to participate

But has too much on his plate…

Gone are days

For him to praise

God for a leader’s fate.

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He’s not on the church ballot,

It’s been so many years…

He doesn’t teach Sunday School anymore

But those who do, he cheers.

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In worship, he leads the singing,

Of hymns old and true…

He leads without accompaniment:

Something not all can do.

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He’s proved himself unreliable

For much of anything else…

He prays and sings, a few other things,

No major stuff under his belt.

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Except…responsibility

That he needs help with right now…

His primary ministry–to his wife–

To love her more, somehow.

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The Lord has promised good to him,*

His hope and love secure…

God will his shield and portion be

As long as life endures.

–Jonathan Caswell

* a slight rewrite of a verse in AMAZING GRACE!

IT OCCURRED TO ME…

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IT OCCURRED TO ME…

 

February fourteenth of this year,

A reminder of our life-time cheer…

Twenty-six years we’ve stayed

Since the first exchange was made,

For since then we’ve become very dear!

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In the year nineteen eighty-eight,

My prospects for love weren’t great…

Then out of the blue

She wrote to you-know-who,

The first step in finding God’s mate.

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My Prayer Letter found her just fine,

I was a Missionary at the time…

The suggestion was strong

From my blind date (that bombed),

She wrote after proper prayer time.

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By March twenty-seventh, that year,

We met with Sunday School cheer…

She liked who she saw,

He was handsome and tall–

They were engaged by May third, same year!

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A year and a month to the day

Later, both families could say…

Related by marriage

Cannot be disparaged,

Now that these two are on their way.

 

–Jonathan Caswell