CHOOSE WELL
Psalm 1 (God blesses the righteous)
Luke 6: 17- 26 (Blessings and woes)
(Read by Linda Plug)
A farmer sat in a restaurant near a table where several clergy were having breakfast and discussing the necessary ways to pray – how to hold your hands, whether to close your eyes, whether to kneel stand or sit, and so on and on. The discussion was quite animated, and the various clergy had some pretty firm opinions on the subject.
This is all part of a poem I will sshared in church, but for this purpose I will share only the closing remarks made by the farmer as he prepared to leave. He said to them,
“I beg your pardon reverend sirs, but may I have a word? I’m just a common farmer but I do indulge in prayer”. He then goes on to tell them how he was trying to repair a faulty rope on his bucket at the well, and when he tried to release it, he slipped and fell into the well, with the rope wound around his leg. He continues then”
“The rope was faulty, as you know, and just there where I hung,
short of the water by an inch, my thoughts of God begun.
Now you may have your theories, ideas and advice,
And I am very certain many folks think they’re quite nice.
But so it seems, to me at least, what stands me in good stead,
The prayin’est prayer I ever prayed was standing on my head!”
The preachers sat in awe to hear the farmer tell his tale… and wondered as he left the room, “Did his prayer succeed or fail?”
Rudy Plug
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