Joseph
L. Mendez Jr.
Project
Manager/ Estimator
E.C.
Bones Inc. Construction
----- In
light
of
the many jokes we
send
to
one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be
a joke, it's not funny, it's intended to get you
thinking.
(I
sent it to everyone on my list. Will you?)
Billy
Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her
"How could God let something like this Happen?" (regarding
Katrina)
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 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.
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.
"Good
friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you know they are
always there
