Children Are Quick

Art Linkletter, famous for recognizing humor in children and reporting it, missed some of them that arise periodically. The following came to me via a hand-me-down. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did for the few minutes that I needed to briefly change the course of my thinking: T + Teacher S = Student C = Class T: Maria, go to the map and find North America. T: Correct. Now class, who discovered America? C: Maria T: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? S: You told me to do it without using tables. T: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile?” S: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L T: No, That’s wrong. S: Maybe it's wrong, but you asked me how I spell it. T: Now Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating? S: No sir, I don’t have to, my Mom is a good cook. T: Clyde, your composition on ‘My Dog’ is exactly the same as your brother’s, did you copy his? S: No sir. It’s the same dog. T: Harold What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested? S: A teacher. T: Donald what is the chemical formula for water? S: H I J K L M N O T: What are you talking about? S: Yesterday you said it is H to O. T: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn’t have ten years ago. S: Me! T: Glen why do you always get so dirty? S: Well, I’m a lot closer to the ground than you are. T: George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louis, do you know why his father didn’t punish him? S: Because George still had the axe in his hand? Thanks for visiting. - Bob Eph 5: 1-17

Listening to Your Conscience

There is no such thing as a child born badly. God does not create any thing or any one evil. God, pure love, creates only good. Man fails in following God for reasons of his own making and reasons of others’ interference. From the beginning of time, each of us has had an instinctive awareness of the existence of God and of our own mortal soul. We can ignore it for a time, but eventually we realize the truth, and we decide our fate,our eternity by our actions. It has been said that conscience is one avenue God uses to commune with man, His creation. Trifling with your conscience (which tells you right from wrong), trying to reason with it to make it come around with your preference rather than what your conscience tells you, is often the cause for ignoring God, your heavenly Father. Your relationship with God ought not to be set aside because you do not understand God’s providence. For God’s law see Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, there are only slight variations between them. The First of the Ten Commandments instructs us: Love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul and with all your strength, and have no other gods before Him. You may ask, “what other gods?” That would mean anything or anyone that you place before and above God Himself. To obey the first commandment we need to know our God. If you do not open and read His Holy Book there is no way you can fulfill the command to know Him; there is no way you can understand and obey the other nine commandments so vital for an orderly, peaceful heart and mind, and eventually attain eternal life with Him in heaven. There is no other way. The risk of loss is greater than you have given time to imagine. Not paying attention to your conscience has consequences that interfere with, even distort, your normal thought process. At risk, each time you try to make an excuse for not listening to your conscience, is erosion of your mental peace. What peace you may have had becomes corrupt. In time,if God graces you with more time,a behavioral change is necessary to recapture the peace previously enjoyed in your age of innocence – i.e. before you began negotiating with your conscience to have your way. It is not hard to understand that when you ignore your natural conscience your life takes a detour. This can be temporary; however, if you never learn it becomes permanent,with self-condemning consequences. This danger need not be the situation. Listen and follow your conscience when it instinctively tells you right from wrong, you will be confident you are doing what is natural. Then enjoy peace of heart and mind as meant to be. You cannot put a price on this condition. The more you obey your natural instincts, plus the more you learn about our God, the more you will come to know Him and love Him while in this world, and be ready to be with Him in eternal bliss in the next. † Thanks for visiting. - Bob Mt 10:29-33