Dear Friends;
I hope I don't offend any of you with this
item, but, there are times when I wish we could reverse some things
in life we gave away and take back some of those principles we were
taught to live by. I think this item says it all... God Bless the
Unknown Writer!!!
Your Friend, Don Willis
In light of the
recent shooting by an alleged 16-year
old at the Washington National
Zoo...........
Let's see, I think it started when
Madeline Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools,
and we said OK.
Then
someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible that says thou
shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.
And we said, OK.
Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank
our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would
be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.
And we said, an expert should know
what he's talking about so we won't spank them anymore.
Then someone
said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they
misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in
this
school better touch a student when
they misbehave
because we don't want any bad
publicity, and we
surely don't want to be sued.
And we
accepted their reasoning.
Then someone said, let's let our
daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have
to tell their parents.
And we said, that's a grand
idea.
Then some wise school board member said, since boys will
be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the
condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't
have to tell their parents they got them at school.
And we said, that's another
great idea.
Then some of our top elected officials said it
doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.
And agreeing with them, we said it
doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in
private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.
And then
someone said let's print magazines with
pictures of nude women and call it
wholesome
down-to-earth appreciation for the
beauty of the female body. And we said we have no problem with
that.
And someone else took that appreciation a step
further and published pictures of
nude children and then stepped further still by making them available
on the Internet.
And we said they're entitled to
their free speech.
And the entertainment industry said, let's make
TV
shows and movies that promote
profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And let's record music that
encourages
rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and
satanic themes.
And we said it's just
entertainment, it has no adverse
effect, and nobody takes it
seriously anyway, so go
right ahead.
Now we're
asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know
right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers,
their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long
and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal
to do with... "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Dear God,
Why didn't you save the little girl in
Michigan?
Sincerely,
Concerned
Student
AND THE
REPLY...
Dear Concerned
Student:
I am not allowed in
schools.
Sincerely,
God.
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and
then wonder why the world's going
to hell. Funny how
we believe what the newspapers say,
but question what
the Bible says.
Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to
believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible
says.
Funny how someone can say "I
believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also "believes" in
God).
Funny how we are quick to judge but
not to be judged.
Funny how you can send a
thousand 'jokes' through
e-mail and they spread like
wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord,
people think
twice about
sharing.
Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar
and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public
discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school and
workplace.
Funny how someone can be so
fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the
week.
Are you
laughing?
Funny how when you go to forward
this message, you will not send it to many on your address list
because you're not sure what they believe, or what
they will think of you for
sending it to them.
Funny how I can be
more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of
me.
Are you
thinking?
Author Unknown
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Have a good day and God
Bless!
Your Friend,