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From: "Doreen C. Seeback" <>
Subject: Re: [CASTLE-GARDEN] Words for thought
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:59:38 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <1967-3C1EF363-2062@storefull-124.iap.bryant.webtv.net>


Well said. Thank you Pat. Its to bad that so many Virus' are going around,
no one would open attachments. Appreciate the time you spent on this.
Doreen.


--- Pat Q <> wrote:
> Please forgive any that by sending this, you feel I've offended you in
> some way. But, let it never be said that Patty Q was afraid to step up
> to the plate even if she was positive she'd strike out. Most of this
> makes perfect sense to me and the little that doesn't, doesn't matter.
> Remember, don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff.
>
> Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show and Jane
> Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?"
> (regarding
> the attacks on Sept. 11). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and
> insightful response. She said "I believe that God is deeply saddened by
> this,
> just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our
> schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And
> being
> the gentleman that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out. How
> can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we
> demand that He
> leave us alone?"
> In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.
> Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare (she was
> murdered, her body was found recently) 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.
> Then, 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 (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide) And
> we said, an
> expert should know what he's talking about so we said OK.
> 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 (There's a big
> difference between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking,
> humiliating,
> kicking, etc.) And we said, OK.
> 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, OK.
> 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, OK.
> 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, OK.
> And then 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 OK, they're entitled
> to their free speech.
> And then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies
> that
> promotes profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And let's record music
> That encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we
> said its
> 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 killed in her classroom?"
> 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 God 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?
> Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it....no
> one
> will know that you did. . ..
>
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