The Bridge Builder...
Bami Betiku
Hey James Yeku, I am sure you will like this. I found it on computer just now and got refreshed on the Power of Investment in another…
The Bridge Builder
An old man going down a lone highway
Came in the evening cold and gray
To a chasm vast and deep and wide
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
That swollen stream held no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm deep and wide--Why build you this bridge at the eventide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head.
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This swollen stream which was naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”
--Will Allen Dromgoole
“Make no little plans;
they have no magic to stir men’s blood . . .
Make big plans . . . aim high in hope and work.”
--Daniel H. Burnham of Chicago, Architect and
Planner
Bami Betiku
The Navigators Ibadan
P.O.Box 30729, Secretariat
Ibadan. Oyo State, Nigeria.
Men will not be lost because of their sins,
but because they have failed to make use of God’s remedy for sin…