Finally, The Truth on National TV

     Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show and 
Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?"  And
 Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.  She said "I
 believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years 
we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government 
and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that
 He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and 
His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?"

     I know there's been a lot of emails going around in regards to 9/11/01, but
this really makes you think. If you don't have time, at least skim through it, 
but the bottom line is something to think about.... In light of recent events...
terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.

Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, 
her body was found recently) complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools, 
and we said OK.

Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school... the Bible that
 says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as 
yourself. And we said, OK.

Then, Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave 
because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-
esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide) And we said, an expert should know what 
he's talking about so we said OK.

Then, someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children 
when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in 
this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want 
any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued (There's big difference 
between disciplining and touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, 
etc.) And we said, OK.

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and
they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, OK.

Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're
going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so 
they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents
they got them at school. And we said, OK.

Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in
private as long as we do our jobs. And agreeing with them, we said it doesn't
matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as 
I have a job and the economy is good.

And then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude women and
call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female
body. And we said, OK.

And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published
pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them
available on the internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to their free 
speech.

And then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies
that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And let's record music
that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we
said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, and nobody takes it
seriously anyway, so go right ahead.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why
they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill
strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.

I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

"Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl killed in her classroom?" 
Sincerely, Concerned Student... 
AND THE REPLY 
"Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in schools". Sincerely, God.

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the
world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say,
but question what the Bible says.

Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to
believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says.

Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan
who, by the way, also "believes" in God.
Funny how we are quick to judge but not to be judged.
Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they
spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord,
people think twice about sharing.

Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through
cyberspace, but the public discussion of God is suppressed in the
school and workplace.

Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an
invisible Christian the rest of the week.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to
many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what
they will think of you for sending it to them. Funny how I can be more
worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

Are you thinking?

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it....no one
will know that you did. But, if you discard this thought process, then
don't sit back and complain about what a bad shape the world is in!

Rick Bean
CBT Specialist
Boeing Aerospace Operations
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.