OUR FATHER DID THIS

John Ruskin (1819-1900) art critic, draftsman, writer, artist and social thinker wrote,

“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, “See! This our father did for us.”

He is writing about building physical structures and I say the very same principles are true in building a life of marriage, family, example and certainly building a spiritual life. Hopefully when we are finished with our building projects our family and friends will say, “See! This our father and mother did for us.”

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” Jesus