Preaching – Teaching – Preaching
0Preaching – Teaching – Preaching
Mark Fowler
Magill, South Australia
Australia
Failed at preaching.
Took up teaching.
Good at sharing;
poor at caring.
Failed the godly.
Strange, but oddly
curbed behaviour.
Failed the saviour.
Knew symmetry.
Blitzed geometry.
Taught poetry;
used puppetry
Loved kids learning,
minds discerning.
Child creating;
less berating.
Soon I’m caring.
Lives worth sharing.
Student’s learning;
passion burning.
Christian schooling!
They’d been fooling.
‘You teach Heaven!
Lesson seven.’
‘Don’t do, Jesus,
though he frees us.
Failed at preaching;
love my teaching.
Like the humdrum
curriculum.
Not sacrifice;
not God advice.
Not me really;
touchy, feely.
Mathematics!
Plus dramatics.’
Not prestigious,
this religious
faith I’m sharing;
Jesus caring!
Now I’m preaching,
through my teaching.
Loving oddly
all things Godly.
Bio: A man finds his vocation can be lived in many ways, not always obvious at first glance.