ROBERT SERVICE

This picture has nothing to do with this blog. It is a fine example of a homeschool. Not only are the kids not being taught evil things that CA kids are routinely taught. They get to learn how to read and write and they learn about history and HIS story. These things are not a priority for CA teachers (with a few exceptions) to stress.

ROBERT SERVICE, a favorite poet of Ronald Reagan and myself, is not known for his Christian themes. Imagine my surprise when I found the following:

A Rusty Nail

I ran a nail into my hand,
The wound was hard to heal;
So bitter was the pain to stand
I thought how it would feel,
To have spikes thrust through hands and feet,
Impaled by hammer beat.

Then hoisted on a cross of oak
Against the sullen sky,
With all about the jeering folk
Who joyed to see me die;
Die hardly in insensate heat,
With bleeding hands and feet.

Yet was it not that day of Fate,
Of cruelty insane,
Climaxing centuries of hate
That woke our souls to pain!
And are we not the living seed
Of those who did the deed!

Of course, with thankful heart I know
We are not fiends as then;
And in a thousand years or so
We may be gentle men.
But it has cost a poisoned hand,
And pain beyond a cry,
To make me strangely understand
A Cross against the sky

I do not agree with his conclusion. I believe we are just as wicked if not more. If Jesus were to come today, as He did back then, he would be killed again. Of course the next time He arrives it will be at the end of the Tribulation with an army of saints behind Him and the obvious power of God.

EVEN SO COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS

HTOITA