Forsyth Park Caller March 2025

A Bird’s Eye View

Mom got up early Sunday morning and got the kids ready for church. Dad sat in the living room, reading his newspaper and looking out at the snow. They’d had this conversation before, but nothing had changed. “Why don’t you go with us this week?” she asked. He didn’t look up from his paper.

“You know why” he said out loud and then in his own mind he finished the answer with “A truly great God wouldn’t care about puny humans anyway.” The man replayed the argument in his mind: “If God is so perfect and great, why would he care about helping us? If God is so powerful, why would he make His Son become a human being? Why would He stoop so low to help if God really is so great?”\

The house was silent except for the sound of the logs crackling in the fireplace. From the other end of the house came a strange thump.
The man put down his paper and walked down the hall. Outside the window huddled a group of birds. In confusion and fear, they had flown into the window pane and fallen to the ground. They huddled together in the snow, trying to figure what to do next.
The man felt sorry for the birds. He thought to himself “The birds could go in our barn and they’d be warm there.” So he went outside and opened the door to the barn. Then he waited in the cold. The birds didn’t move.
“I know, I’ll shoo them over to the barn door” the man thought. But as he tried to herd the birds, they only scattered. Only when he left them alone did they come back to their spot in the snow.

The man had one last plan. He went back in the house and got a loaf of bread. Carefully, he tore off pieces of bread and made a path to the barn door. But the birds just huddled closer together, ignoring the gift of life the man was offering.
Stumped, the man stood looking at the birds, wondering just what would it take to get them to safety. He thought to himself “If only I could become a bird and lead them to safety, then they wouldn’t have to die.”
He stopped and thought about it again. And then he finally understood.
Louis Cassell

This is Just a Resting Place

Sometimes the road of life seems long as we travel through the years,
And with a heart that’s broken and eyes brimful of tears.
We falter in our weariness and sink beside the way;
But God leans down and whispers “Child, there’ll be another day.”
And the road will grow much smoother, and much easier to face;
So do not be disheartened-this is just another Resting Place.
Helen Steiner Rice

To Be Like Him

“I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him, but there’s not much the Holy Spirit has to work with.”
Dwight L. Moody

Worship

Worship is a blessed privilege, not only because it brings supreme glory, but because it also brings likeness to God. It is by communion with God we are made like Him. When Moses came down from beholding God, his own face shown with a strange and aweful glory.” Our complete transformation into His likeness will come through the complete and undivided vision of Him. “We shall be like Him; for we shall see Him even as He is.” R.A. Torrey

The Way Back

While it is certain that God deals with men in different ways and that there is no one pattern for conversion, it is true that where there is no sorrow for sin there can be no joy of salvation. Conviction, repentance, the cry for mercy, and the experience of the mercy of God spell out the sinner’s way back to God.” The Sunday School World

HOME

I have slipped away to the Homeland, to my mansion wondrous fair,
Rejoice with me then in my gladness, remember I have left every care.
Grieve not for the house that I lived in, as you lay me ‘neath the sod.
Remember the one who dwelt in it, has gone to be with her God.
For the little old house that I lived in, was wind-shaken, old and decayed
It had weathered the storms and the tempest, and the lightning around it had played.
The Savior who loves me so dearly, Who walked by my side all the way,
Saw my little house was crumbling, so He bade me haste away.

For He has finished a mansion, in the Homeland over the sea;
He has it all ready and waiting, and so He has come after me.
And in it I shall dwell forever, away from all sickness and pain,
For Jesus has purchased my freedom, and cleansed me from every stain.

CHUCKLES

A Sunday School Teacher asked her young class to memorize Psalm 23. She gave them a month, and said they would recite it in front of the congregation. Little Rick tried and tried, but he couldn’t get past the first line. When the day came and it was his turn, he went up to the microphone and said “The Lord is my shepherd, and that’s all I need to know!” Fun Definitions
Adult-a person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
Beauty Parlor-a place where women curl up and dye.
Committee-a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
Secret-something you tell one person at a time.
Tomorrow-one of the greatest labor-saving devices of today.

Highway Hymns

65 mph-God will take care of you
75 mph-Nearer my God to Thee
85 mph-This world is not my home
95 mph-Lord, I’m coming home