Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 364
January 30, 2018///
I’ve lived a long time and seen a lot of changes. In September of this year I will be Seventy-Four and in those years the world has changed a lot.
As I look around at the books I have collected, the Cd’s/Dvd’s/Video’s, and then look at the cassettes, the 33 1/3 rpm records and yes even a few 8 tracks’, I realize that many changes are good and are beneficial, but many have come to bring us down as a society.
The scripture reminds us not to throw out the good with what we think is better.
A dishwasher is better than washing dishes by hand.
A washer and dryer are better than hauling water and washing clothes in a tub and hanging them on a line to dry.
Permapress has replaced an iron for the most part.
Cordless or Cell phones have replaced corded phones and phone booths.
Riding a lawnmower to cut grass instead of pushing a mower is easier and an electric blanket or throw is extremely warm.
The personal computer and the internet is a mixture of good and bad. They can be used to spread the Gospel or spread evil and hate.
Proverbs 22:28 (KJV)
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
We must continue to have conversations not just text or e-mails. When you look someone in the eye you are looking into their soul.
We must continue to just be good to others and to love God and be faithful to Gods house and to help others as friends used to.
What would happen to our culture if we begin to come together to clean someone’s yard or paint a house or sort through stuff left by a loved one who passed on.
Not only would the work get done but we would form a community that would be like the ones our parents were part of and even us if we are old enough to remember that time.
A community that loved not in word only but in deed.
We see simpler times in the shows “The Walton’s” and “Little House on the Prairie” and we sometimes think those were better times.
However, I can tell you I love to be able to take a shower and use my appliances.
I love to be able to fly somewhere in a matter of hours rather than drive in a horse and buggy or a model-t.
I love to be able to play music on my I-pad and computer and be able to find information with the touch of my fingers on the keyboard.
Even typing these thoughts, I am thankful for word processing. I am old enough to yes……….have had a typewriter and all the pains that brought with it.
I think in the middle of all the convenience we enjoy, what we are really missing when we watch the shows showing us past decades, is the family ties, the community, the willingness to know each other and help each other.
We have the ability to correct that. We can go to the moon and fly across the country in a few hours. Surely, we can find the time to really know each other and to know our God and to follow His command to Love one another.
How long has it been since you have had a real heart felt conversation with someone?
NO!!!!! I have no desire to go back to riding in a horse and buggy and cooking on a wood stove. I have no desire to see people die from things that are easily curable in todays world and I have no desire to return to the outhouse or heating from a fireplace only.
But I do want to go back to when family and friends got together for fellowship and when a neighbor or friend had a need everyone came to the rescue.
I do want politicians who are more concerned with helping better their State, County, or Country than to always be right and lie when it is convenient.
I realize that church provides some of the community and outreaches but as a society we have become centered on our needs. May we love as Jesus Loves!!
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Father God, fills us with the desire to be your hand extended and not move the boundary lines of love and compassion.
God Bless You. Love, MeMaw
THOUGHTS FROM SKYDIVING MEMAW 