THE POWER OF EXPECTATION (3 OF 4)
by Craig Smith
The Power of Expectation (3 of 4)
Series: Love Has Come
Craig Smith
Luke 2:26
I. Introduction
A. Two announcements (3 minutes)
1. RSVP system
2. LifeGate Video
B. Transition
When I was a kid, we spent a lot of Christmases in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where my parents grew up and it's where my grandparents lived their whole lives. I like both grandparents' houses, but my dad's parents was my favorite, largely because they lived in a neighborhood with train-tracks and one of my favorite things to do was to walk down to those tracks with my granddaddy. He would always have a few pennies in his pocket and we'd put them on the tracks, because when the train ran over them it would squish them super flat. It was just cool. But what I remember most isn't the squished pennies...it was the experience of waiting for the train to come. We never knew when it would happen, so we'd usually go back to the house and try to get on with the day, but I was always on pins and needles waiting for the train to come. So I spent the day looking for the first sign that it was on its way. That first sign was always the very faint sound of a train horn off in the distance. I don't know if you've ever heard a train horn up close, but it is absolutely deafening. I mean, it is seriously loud, so you could hear it when the train was miles and miles and miles away. I loved that sound because once you heard it, you knew the train was coming.
The hard thing for me as a little kid was that, while that sound told me for certain that the train was coming, there was a long delay between the announcement that it was coming and its actual arrival. Which means I had to keep waiting. And waiting is hard. And I think every year, the delay between the announcement and the arrival was so long that I started to wonder if the train was really coming.
When I would voice that concern to Granddaddy, he'd say ''did you hear the horn?'' Yes. ''Was it a car horn or a train horn?'' Train ...
Series: Love Has Come
Craig Smith
Luke 2:26
I. Introduction
A. Two announcements (3 minutes)
1. RSVP system
2. LifeGate Video
B. Transition
When I was a kid, we spent a lot of Christmases in Memphis, Tennessee. That's where my parents grew up and it's where my grandparents lived their whole lives. I like both grandparents' houses, but my dad's parents was my favorite, largely because they lived in a neighborhood with train-tracks and one of my favorite things to do was to walk down to those tracks with my granddaddy. He would always have a few pennies in his pocket and we'd put them on the tracks, because when the train ran over them it would squish them super flat. It was just cool. But what I remember most isn't the squished pennies...it was the experience of waiting for the train to come. We never knew when it would happen, so we'd usually go back to the house and try to get on with the day, but I was always on pins and needles waiting for the train to come. So I spent the day looking for the first sign that it was on its way. That first sign was always the very faint sound of a train horn off in the distance. I don't know if you've ever heard a train horn up close, but it is absolutely deafening. I mean, it is seriously loud, so you could hear it when the train was miles and miles and miles away. I loved that sound because once you heard it, you knew the train was coming.
The hard thing for me as a little kid was that, while that sound told me for certain that the train was coming, there was a long delay between the announcement that it was coming and its actual arrival. Which means I had to keep waiting. And waiting is hard. And I think every year, the delay between the announcement and the arrival was so long that I started to wonder if the train was really coming.
When I would voice that concern to Granddaddy, he'd say ''did you hear the horn?'' Yes. ''Was it a car horn or a train horn?'' Train ...
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