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Old July 17th 03, 11:51 AM
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Billy Graham's daughter was 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 "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 events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started
when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently)
complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.Then
someone said you better not read the Bible in school ..... the Bible 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). 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'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. 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'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." 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 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 the 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 it... 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!


 




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