The Golden Trowel Award is the highest award an individual Lodge can bestow upon one of its members. A Lodge has the ability to formally recognize a Brother’s unselfishly giving his service to Masonic principles in general or to his Lodge. This award in not awarded by the Grand Lodge of Texas A.F. & A.M., although the concept originated there. It is not mandatory that the award be given at all but given to a Brother who has demonstrated his devotion to the teachings of Masonry without thought of personal recognition or any special honors. He furthers the principles of Freemasonry by “spreading the cement of brotherly love and affection that unites Masonry into one scared band or society of friends and brothers…”
“But we as Free and Accepted Mason are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of spreading the cement of Brotherly Love and Affection…..”