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Did you miss it? Air Conditioning Appreciation Day? It was on the July 3. Or, Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day? It was on the seventh.
I’m
sure that none of us missed Independence Day. By the way, does
Oh well, you can still make National Farrier’s Week and National Therapeutic Recreation Week (starting the 14th). What’s a farrier? How ’bout International Town Criers Day (15th)? Moon Day and Special Olympics Day (20th)? National Ice Cream Day and National Independent Retailers Week (21st)? Cousins Day (24th)? National Salad Week (25th-31st)?
Parents Day (28th)? Finally, one that I can understand. However, I’m worried. August 1 is Respect for Parents Day. Maybe, Parents Day failed!?
If you don’t believe me ’bout all these holidays, just look at the Community Calendar on page 3 of The Sealy News. They always get it right.
In a recent “Give Me A Break” report on ABC’s “Twenty-Twenty,” John Stoessel complained about all those “holidays” being entered into the Congressional Record at our expense. That’s taxes, you know. One congressman quipped, “We have to support the paper industry.”
About two years ago, right before the Fourth of July, I was returning home from a check-up at M.D. Anderson. The D.J. on the radio commented about what life was like over two hundred years ago when our country was founded.
I thought about what life would have been like for me. While chemotherapy is very barbaric and recovery from bone marrow transplant is torturous, back then neither could even be imagined as viable medical treatments. Bleeding was the cure for what ailed you, even if it killed you.
Had I lived during the times of our Forefathers, they would have written on my tombstone, “He got sick and died a young man.”
I am very thankful that Jesus heals. I think of the words of Matthew, “And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity” (Matthew 9:36 RSV).
Matthew continued on in describing the work of Jesus, saying,
“When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few, pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.’ ” (verses 36-38)
As we scurry about our everyday lives, God brings us back to reality with family problems, work problems, sickness and death. What is most important of all is the last, death.
We
must prepare ourselves to meet God. Jesus lets us know that we must help others
prepare to meet God. Right after He tells His disciples to ask God to send
workers to preach, Jesus sent out His disciples “to the lost sheep of the
house of
How many of us like sheep have strayed from God? Allow us to help you return to Him. You do not have to stay away. There is no sin too terrible that He cannot forgive. There is no sickness of the soul so incurable that He cannot heal.
There is one day that all of us will face, the Great Day of Judgment. If you will only add the Day of Salvation to your calendar, then you will be ready for That Day to come.
Come with me to heaven. It will be a great day!
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