Thought for the Day 3/15/2024

 Friday Tale - Cooperation 

Cooperation, like love and friendship, is something you get by giving.

    There are many travelers on the road that leads to happiness. You will need their cooperation, and they will need yours.

    And there will be other generations after ours. Their lot in life will depend largely on the inheritance we leave to them. We must become bridge-builders, not only for the present generation but for generations yet unborn. 

An old man, travelling a lonely highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm deep and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
For the sullen stream had no fears for him.
But he turned when he reached the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," cried a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day,
And you never again will pass this way.
"You have crossed the chasm deep and wide.
Why build you a bridge at eventide?"
And the builder raised his old grey head:
"Good friend, on the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
"This stream which has been as naught to me,
To that fair-haired boy may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."

~ Will Allen Dromgoole 

Go through, go through the gates, clear the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway, remove the stones. Lift up a standard over the peoples. Behold the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Lo, your salvation comes; behold His reward is with him, and His recompense before him.' "
~ Isaiah 62:10-11