10/8/2018
Well the square table talks recently have been broad based discussions to be sure. But, in an over-all sense, they seem to always be about why we can see some perilous happenings and others cannot. It isn’t that we’re alone in seeing these things as bad-to-evil. Oh, no, many of our acquaintances and friends on FB see these same things. But to the larger audience, the city, county, state, nation, world: our question which has yet to be answered at the square table is why can’t they get on board with this?
Of course, at the top of the list is always, why people cannot see the Lord Jesus Christ for who and what He is for us. Followed by seeing the Bible as God’s word, and then a desire for fellowship around those two subjects (and not religion.)
But, there are other subjects: Vaccinations, water, dangerous traffic routing, politics, public bickering
Take water, for instance…and no, this is not a commercial! But, every few days for the last 12-15 years there has been another crisis with a water system effecting an entire city, sometimes several cities along a certain watercourse, to the point that even boiling the water will not clean it up enough to drink. Is there not enough interest in clean healthy water to cause more preventive and curative measures to be drawn up? Who and how many true experts in what is happening to our water supply would it take to fix this? More than we have interested in it, that’s for sure.
Or, in our town, a ridiculous traffic situation with a simple answer, yet there isn’t any, zip, nada, zero, nil, interest in even talking about it amongst the leaders. Sometimes one of them will nod, or even say, “oh, I agree with you.” Then walk away or change the subject.
What causes otherwise “movers and shakers” to avoid as if it were the plague, this question? Reminds me of Austin, TX, who had leaders in the 60s & 70s who said, “we want to keep Austin small.” That’s head-in-the-sand politics. So now they’re sooo big, sprawling with traffic snarls you wouldn’t believe, all due to lack of foresight. Been working on it sense the early 80s and still not fixed.
How many rants can you take in one morning? So sorry. Maybe I’d better get the other half of the square table discussion group to write about a couple of these things.
The SIMH this morning came quickly, maybe because when I opened my eyes I thought I had overslept (not a chance.) The Everly Brothers had several big hits in their day and one them was bouncing around: “Wake Up, Little Susie!” (You know, they are out on a date, went to a drive-in movie, boring movie, fell asleep, yeah, yeah, yeah….now go sell that to moms and dads, right?)
Hope Monday is your favorite day of the week!! Get on with it!
Thanks for reading, the Elder
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