Three wooden crosses…

Sometimes listening to HANK FM or country music in general can be a bit like goin’ to church. 

If you aren’t a church goer, maybe it’s like going to a Bible study. If neither of these happen to work for you, maybe you need to give some thought to one or the other, or both.

I have no idea how many times over the years I’ve heard heard Randy Travis sing this song on the radio. Today, on HANK FM, I actually listened to it.

Now I don’t know if this story is true, but it certainly could be. We all need a redeemer; we are all lost and need found. Sometimes that might happen in unusual ways. That’s why it’s called, “sharing your personal testimony. Yours is unique.

This is what Randy Travis sings.

“A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher

Ridin’ on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.

One’s headed for vacation, one for higher education

And two of them were searchin’ for lost souls

That driver never ever saw the stop sign

And eighteen wheelers can’t stop on a dime

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

Why there’s not four of them,

Heaven only knows

I guess it’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you

It’s what you leave behind you when you go

That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres

The faith and love for growin’ things in his young son’s heart

And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children

Did her best to give ’em all a better start

And that preacher whispered, “Can’t you see the Promised Land?”

As he laid his blood-stained Bible in that hooker’s hand

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

Why there’s not four of them, Heaven only knows

I guess it’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you

It’s what you leave behind you when you go

That’s the story that our preacher told last Sunday

As he held that blood-stained Bible up for all of us to see

He said, “Bless the farmer, and the teacher, and the preacher

Who gave this Bible to my mama

Who read it to me”

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

Why there’s not four of them, now I guess we know

It’s not what you take when you leave this world behind you

It’s what you leave behind you when you go

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway”

Songwriters: Doug Johnson / Kim Williams

Thank you, Doug, Kim, and Randy, for the sermon.