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Preaching – Teaching – Preaching

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  • in Australia · Poem
  • — 20 Oct, 2014 at 9:00 am

Preaching – 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.

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