Today’s Thought “The End of Summer” G. Ward

 

“And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.” Zechariah 8:5

 

Another Labor Day is upon us. It’s that holiday that will soon introduce autumn. As a child, it marked an anxiousness for every young person (particularly in Michigan); because school would begin on the day after. The celebration would always begin on Friday eve. There was good food for several days (a fat boy’s delight). Laughter seemed a norm and anticipating more fun went without prompting.

Now we’re in a day whereby incessant commercials warn those celebratory ones to not drink and drive. Many have forgotten the essence of congregating with punch and soda pop. Many allow for alcoholic substances to decide where real fun begins. The sobriety in man is estimated (in these circles) as constraining. When some are allowed ingestion of spirits, it immediately promotes gregariousness in even the most recluse. While the kids play in the streets, coming in periodically for a drink of punch, what are they seeing you do or say? While vicariously living through them with an expectancy of greatness as they grow, will they too think it’s necessary to enjoy the same, allowing the thoughts of the subliminal to prevail (even if it’s not beneficial or edifying)?

Happy Friday!