Materfamilias: A Good Season

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A Good Season

This is a good season in life. I am plenty old enough to have had a variety of them: hopeful, anxious, joyous, doubt-filled, somber, restless. Of those that I have experienced, I must say, I am really enjoying the season of now. There is a settled peace and a familiar rhythm to our life even though changes abound. God is doing amazing things in the girls' lives and our lives. As he reveals Himself in remarkable ways, there is such a peaceful assuredness about that I am at a loss to effectively communicate the feeling.
Other seasons will come as this one will go; God remains the same. They will change. There is such joy in the knowledge that God doesn't.

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Pretty Good

There once was a pretty good student,

Who sat in a pretty good class;
Who was taught by a pretty good teacher,
Who always let pretty good pass-

He wasn’t terrific at reading,
He wasn’t a whizbang at math;
But for him education was leading,
Straight down a pretty good path.

He didn’t find school too exciting,
But he wanted to do pretty well;
And he did have some trouble with writing,
and no one had taught him to spell.

When doing arithmatic problems,
Pretty good was regarded as fine-
5 plus 5 needn’t always add up to be 10
A pretty good answer was 9.

The pretty good class that he sat in
Was part of a pretty good school;
And the student was not the exception,
On the contrary, he was the rule.

The pretty good student, in fact, was
Part of a pretty good mob;
And the first time he knew that he lacked was
When he looked for a pretty good job.

It was then, when he sought a position,
He discovered that life could be tough-
And he soon had a sneaking suspicion,
Pretty good might not be good enough.

The pretty good town in our story
Was part of a pretty good state,
Which had pretty good aspirations,
And prayed for a pretty good fate.

There once was a pretty good nation,
Pretty proud of the greatness it had,
Which learned much too late, it you want to be great,
Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad.

~Charles Osgood