March 17, 2022 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, March 17.
We continue today with our four-part series on creation and the Creator, leading to this Sunday’s first day of spring. Our worship service this Sunday will feature one of my favorite hymns, “This is My Father’s World.”
My niece Lesli lives with her family in upstate New York, in a house built in the 1850’s. That house was new when a new minister came to that area. His name was Maltbie Babcock. He was young and was determined to be an effective pastor to his flock. Whenever the burdens of his job got too great, Babcock would go for long walks into one of the most beautiful parts of America. He would call to his young wife, “I’m going out to my Father’s world.”
At the young age of 42, Maltbie passed away, burdened by the pressures of his position, and by a condition that was little known and even less understood at that time - depression. His wife, when going through his papers, found a poem he had written after one of those long walks. It speaks to us again today.
This is my Father’s world and to my listening ears
All nature sings and round me rings
The music of the spheres
This is my Father’s world, I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
