Pushin' broom

Pushin' Broom
Fall has come again
Bringing the leaves to the ground
Another year's gone away,
Nothing's changed in this town

Far may it be from you to live someone else's dream
Though your aspirations soar just thank the Lord once more

So many times we believe that our lives will go to waste
Unless we strive to achieve so many things out of haste

Sometimes we run too fast when God is asking us to crawl

He who is faithful minding less shall be given to rule over all

Does it feel like every time you're alone

A voice begins to speak "There's so much more to life"

You'll hear, but you know you're where God wants you to be

Do you dream your name in lights way up high

For all to see, could it be that faithful to

What you've got is what you first must be

Fall has come again

Bringing the leaves to the ground

Another year's gone away

You plan to leave that boring town

Far may it be from you to leave your dreams because of fear

At least you're not afraid to push a broom another year

Romans 4:17b - God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did

In the fall of 1995 fourteen years ago I was sweeping the feed shed at a salmon farm and listening to music. I was a bored, unmotivated farm tech and I was considering quitting my job and going to work at the mill. As I worked that fall afternoon, I became aware of the lyrics of the song that you see written above, I heard the words "he who is faithful minding less shall be given to rule over all" and it seemed as if the singer was speaking to me. My ears perked up and I listened carefully to every word from that point on and the last verse really hammered the message home as the voice sang "at least you're not afraid to push a broom another year"

I looked down at the broom that I was pushing and just thought "wow! that's weird".

Now you have to understand at this time I was no one out on the farm I was a tech who was not considered for any promotion, probably barely holding on to my job. However, I really believed that God was speaking to me through this song.

A couple months later I transferred to another farm and I really motivated and applied myself. A few months later I was promoted to assistant manager. Wow! Even more amazing, six months later in the fall of 1996 one year after I swept the feed shed listening to that song, I returned to the first farm and was promoted to site manager. Fall had come again, I pushed a broom, so to speak, for a year and now I was given to rule over all at that farm.

Four years after that I was promoted to Area Manager and responsible for the three farms in the area. Four years and a merger later three more farms were added to my area. Then another five. Then another merger and three more farms. Now thirteen years later I truly have been given to rule over all.

God has taught me so many lessons through all this and really expanded my faith. The Bible talks about Abraham's faith being accounted to him and us for righteousness in Romans 4. He was told he would be the father of many nations, he didn't consider his own body already dead (he was 100yrs old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb but gave glory to God. If you told me that I would go from being a site tech that fall to area manager in five years I would've found that extremely hard to believe but I hope I would've replied "with God all things are possible" and "I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me"