Are You a Bridge Builder?
Copyright 2005 John Boe
When you get right down to it, there are really only two types of people in this world, those who build bridges and those who don't. Are you a bridge builder? You very well may be and not even know it.
Bridge builders are team players and go out of
their way to render support and encouragement to
people they meet along the road of life. They truly
understand the power of a well-timed kind word and
the importance of sincere appreciation.
Bridge builders make outstanding mentors because
of their eagerness to share and nurture. They are
terrific role models and leaders in every sense of
the word. Bridge builders unselfishly invest of
their time and energy helping others to reach their
full potential.
Bridge builders are always quick to praise people
who have mentored them on their journey. They're
extremely grateful that someone recognized their
talent and helped them develop their potential.
Bridge builders help others not for personal gain
or credit, but simply because it's the right thing
to do. They don't build bridges for the sake of mere
recognition; they build because it's in their very
nature to do so.
Bridge builders care more than others think is wise,
risk more than others think is safe and expect more
than others believe is possible!
If you're a bridge builder congratulations, the
world is a much better place because of the difference
you make in the lives of others. How many bridges have
YOU built lately?
The Bridge Builder
An old man going a lone highway,
came at the evening cold and gray,
to a chasm vast and deep and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
but he turned when safe on the other side
and built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man", said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with
building here; your journey will end
with the ending day. You never again
will pass this way. You’ve crossed the
chasm, deep and wide, why build a
bridge at evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head;
"Good friend in the path I have come",
he said, "there followed after me today
a youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me,
to that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
Good friend I am building this bridge for him!"
-- Will Allen Dromgoole (1860-1934), Writer
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