Today’s Thought “Wild, Wild West” G. Ward

 

“Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.” Psalm 96:1

 

I love classic westerns. In my youth we referred to them as “Cowboy Movies.” Good guys always won. Moreover, there was absolutely nothing sexually provocative incorporated in these movies. Hard work was central to everyone’s day (including children). A great regard for the land and animals was a given and everyone had great respect for sacerdotal things, even the town drunk.

It was 2:37 a.m., the alarm company called to say our system had been triggered. I immediately thought we had been burglarized (it’s because we’ve been burglarized at our church two other times). Many are yet flabbergasted when I tell that story. Their immediate response is “how could someone break in a church?” I sarcastically reply, “By breaking a window and coming in.” Furthermore, church and attending is more relative to verbal expression than activity. We once arrived this far by faith, we’ve now come this far by Facebook.com with its many religious insertions, while awakening on Sunday mornings in a C-Span type of quandary, debating with oneself, “should I, or shouldn’t I go to worship services on today?”

The cowboys never had that debate. On Sundays, they would stop roping and harvesting to worship the Lord of the harvest…

Happy Tuesday!