{"id":20362,"date":"2014-06-27T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2014-06-26T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T23:02:23","slug":"three-wooden-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/27\/three-wooden-crosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Wooden Crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Why there&#8217;s not four of them, Heaven only knows<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I guess it&#8217;s not what you take when you leave this world behind you<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s what you leave behind you when you go<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The faith an&#8217; love for growin&#8217; things in his young son&#8217;s heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> An&#8217; that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Did her best to give &#8217;em all a better start<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> An&#8217; that preacher whispered: &#8220;Can&#8217;t you see the Promised Land?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As he laid his blood-stained Bible in that hooker&#8217;s hand<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Why there&#8217;s not four of them, Heaven only knows<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> I guess it&#8217;s not what you take when you leave this world behind you<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> It&#8217;s what you leave behind you when you go<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">That&#8217;s the story that our preacher told last Sunday<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> As he held that blood-stained Bible up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> For all of us to see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> He said: &#8220;Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an&#8217; the preacher<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8220;Who gave this Bible to my mamma<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8220;Who read it to me&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Why there&#8217;s not four of them, now I guess we know<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s not what you take when you leave this world behind you<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s what you leave behind you when you go<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LT1sNrgnJZc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriters: Kim Williams and Doug Johnson<br \/>\nPerformed by Randy Travis and Josh Turner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Every time I hear this song I can imagine the story it is telling&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">A bus has wrecked. Three people have died\u2014a farmer, a teacher, and a preacher. The farmer left the love of farming to his own son. The teacher left her wisdom to her students. A preacher leaves his Bible with a hooker who then uses it to turn her life around. She reads the Word and turns from her possibly horrible miserable life. She has a young son of her own. She reads those same life-saving words to her own son. Her son would become a preacher&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Now <strong><em>these<\/em><\/strong> are some honorable legacies!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation<br \/>\nthe glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done.<br \/>\nPsalm 78:4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The hooker in the ballad above did not hide &#8216;the glorious deeds&#8217; from her son. \u00a0She did not hide from him what saved her life. Instead, she gave him the same tools that were given to her by a dying preacher to make sure that her son did not follow the same path the she had. \u00a0She got to see a great legacy formed when her son decided to become a preacher. We as parents leave legacies to our children. \u00a0They watch everything we say and do, and they learn by listening to us and watching us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">As parents it is up to us to leave our children with a good foundation in Christ. We pass our morals and beliefs onto our children through our actions and conversations with them. They then will turn around and pass it down to their own kids. Leaving a godly legacy becomes more important with each passing generation as this world begins to turn from God.<\/p>\n<p>We should not hide these things from our children. In the song the hooker does not hide her life from her son. \u00a0Instead, and this is my imagination working, she shares what her life was like to him and reads to him the Bible, which saved her life. \u00a0The preacher made sure that the legacy of God continued when he passed his bloodied up Bible to someone who was in desperate need of it. \u00a0I like to imagine that the hooker was on her way to a new life, and the preacher was God\u2019s instrument in making sure that she made herself better and left a good legacy herself. \u00a0We need to follow this example and leave a good legacy for our own children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Heavenly Father, please guide me in helping to leave a Godly legacy to my children. \u00a0May they learn how good You are and that You will never leave them. Please protect them and help them build their own Godly legacies. \u00a0In Jesus name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway Why there&#8217;s not four of them, Heaven only knows I guess it&#8217;s not what you take when you leave this world behind you It&#8217;s what you leave behind you when you go That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[1287,425,3211,6627,6652,4932,4822,6626],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-laura-pattillo","tag-leaving-a-godly-legacy","tag-psalm-784","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-randy-travis","tag-three-wooden-crosses","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20408,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}