The Ceiling Fan

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The Ceiling Fan

by Johnny Ray

The fan up top is my heart

Constantly moving, constantly turning

Never resting, with never a break

Until a fateful day, when the blades

Stop turning, stop the motion, in which

The rotation has always known.

Should a mechanic be present on the fateful day,

Repairs can be made immediately and the

Heart is saved. Others not trained in fan

Mechanics help by turning the blades

Until the mechanic arrives.

There are many mechanics and even more

of the others who help turn the blades. It is

important to have the blades turning.

This is a little poem or parable I wrote this morning. I actually thought of it last night and shared it with my wife, as I was on the floor staring at my ceiling fan, of all things.

Matthew 8:18-22

When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

Another disciple said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

The blue part is also repeated by Christ in Luke 9:58.

Isaiah 29:13-21 (NIV)

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish. Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"? In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest? In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see. Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down- those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

The part in red is quoted twice in the New Testament by Christ: in Matthew and Mark.

I am sure I had something brilliant and deep with all this, but I can not remember what it was. As it is right now (on Mother's Day), I still can not focus. Oh well... I am going to have to come back to this later. It's great stuff, the passages... Pray for me. Johnny Out.