Phil, your dad was a wise man.

earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:

>John,
>
>You get no argument from me.  When we first moved to Omaha, it was a blue
>Sunday city.  Nothing was sold on Sunday at all.  One only needs to look
>around and it is pretty clear our society has gone downward and isn't coming
>back.  Look at the things in Boulder, Colorado alone which have happened in
>the last two years.  Horribly frightening if you don't know that Jesus is
>coming soon.  Colorado voted down Jessica's law while 41 other states have
>voted it into law.  I remember a few years ago, a pastor, and several others
>from his church, came to Denver for a conference.  They all stayed in our
>house for the week.  I explained to my children that when these people were
>in the house, we would not be watching TV or playing video games.  Why?
>Because, I explained, these visitors would be greatly offended by it because
>they did not believe in owning a television or playing video games.  I was
>ice skating one Sunday afternoon before having to leave to go back to the
>school for the blind.  Our pastor showed up.  There were hundreds of people
>on the ice and my mom made my little sister and I skate over to talk to the
>pastor for a minute.  I was embarrassed.  When my dad was alive, he would
>have never allowed us to do that.  However, once, I remember clearly that
>dad allowed me to go swimming on Sunday afternoon, between church services,
>with two brothers whose father worked with my dad and dad didn't want him to
>be offended.  Why?  Dad had just led this man to Christ and knew he would
>not understand my father's convictions.  So dad allowed it this one time.
>So, in short, it works both ways and I believe my dad knew the difference.
>The question is, do we?  Shoot, if I lived in a community that the majority
>felt it was wrong to mow grass on Sunday, I wouldn't mow on Sunday either.
>I hated taking naps on Sunday afternoons, though, but it didn't matter
>because we rarely were allowed outside and we never got to play with
>neighbor kids on Sundays.  Not riding my bike on Sunday was by far the
>hardest thing for me as a kid growing up because I always was on the back of
>my bike.
>
>Phil.
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John


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