Monday, September 29, 2014

TRELLIS AND VINE

CHILDHOOD LEGENDS AND MANHOOD REALITIES Legend is a powerful teaching tool and cultural exemplar, whose trellis young minds may cling to and climb. In my old neighborhoods, our legends were great athletes from our hood, and from well beyond, since athletic supremacy was our youthful ideal. But, as we matured into manhood, after reality had degraded exalted sports ambitions, and humbled youthful legends, we had to move on! So, it is in life. "When I was a child, I spoke as I child, I thought as a child, I understood as I child; but, when I became a man, I set my childish things aside." 1 Cor. 13:11