If that church college I attended aimed to teach us anything, it was how to be missionaries, so in the first or second term everybody had to take a speech class. The teacher tried to make it more interesting and less intimidating by calling the course Interpersonal Communications and, on the theory that college freshmen are most interested in themselves, making the first speeches be in groups of three or four and the topic be "Who Am I?"
Just the facts, as in the student directory, was my reaction to that assignment, but one kid in my group wanted to impress the teacher and gushed, "I am an ever-changing who!"
I suppose I did participate in keeping the "Who" name and jokes going throughout our church college years. I thought that was a terribly amusing and thought-provoking line.
"Who, who, who are you?"
"I am an ever-changing who.
Not one, but two,
Or perhaps a few."
"What, what, are you for real?"
"Depends on how I feel.
I can lie and cheat and steal
So long as innocent's how I feel.
Nothing but me can change it
On my ever-turning wheel."
"How, how, how is this?"
"Oh, the sublime, ineffable bliss
Of changing with the wind: that! to this!
There's not much I ever miss."
"How, how do youexplain that?"
"For eveyrone I have met,
I'm a new who, don't forget.
I've not stopped changing yet."
"The changing who, the changing who,
Never the same, but always new!
Change is the only constant for it.
Hebrews 13:8 would bore it.
Christ, ever different yet ever the same,
Died for this who. Who-m can He redeem?"
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