Commissioner Samuel Brengle

My Aunt posted this on her Xanga site. It is written well and I believe is just as powerful and real now as it was when he wrote it. Lord help us, help me....to grow in grace.

"It's easy to pick out flaws
In the work that others have done;
To point out errors that others have made,
When your own task you haven't begun.
It's easy enough to fuss and find fault
When others are doing their best;
To sneer at the little they have achieved,
When you have done nothing but rest.

It's easy enough to cavil and carp,
To criticize, scoff and deride,
For few of us ever have done perfect work,
No matter how hard we have tried.
It's easy enough not to speak of the best,
And to dwell all the time on the worst;
And perhaps it is proper sometimes to find fault,
But be sure that you've done something first!

~The late Commissioner Samuel Brengle