Its strange

[Guest guest]

I hope this catches you the way it caught me!

 

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send along to one another for

a laugh, this is a little different: This joke today is not intended to be a

joke, it’s not intended to be funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

 

A prominent American’s daughter was interviewed on the Earthly Show and Jane

Clayson asked her “How could God let something like this happen?” (Regarding

the attacks on September 11)

 

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, “I

believe 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 He is, I believe He has

calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His

protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

 

In light of recent eventsi terrorist attack, school shootings, etc., I think

it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found

recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, 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). We said an

expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.

 

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children

when they misbehave. 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, touching, beating, smacking, humiliating,

kicking, etc.) And we said OK.

 

Then someone said, 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. 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.

 

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 further again by making

them available on the Internet. And we said OK, they’re entitled to free

speech.

 

Then the entertainment industry said, let’s make TV shows and movies that

promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. 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, nobody takes it seriously

anyway, so go right ahead.

 

Now we are 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.”

 

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 Holy books say.

 

Funny how you can send ‘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 lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass

freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in

school and workplace.

 

Are you laughing?

 

Funny how when you 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. Funny how we can be more worried about

what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

 

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard iti No one

will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back

and complain about what bad shape the world is in!

 

Are you thinking?