It's the Hallowday season!
Yep, right down to the line for October...my first blog post in 3 weeks. A low turnout for the trick-o'-treaters this MOONday night. Weather's been a beaut, though. Warm enough 2 days ago to do a little flat water kayaking on our local 10x30 mile lake, with a stiff south wind making for some sturdy breakers along the shoreline. Returning with the wind at our backs, I could actually surf the waves a little bit with my kayak. Not quite like bodysurfing on the Jersey Shore of my youth, but lots of good exercise. And where we put in, there is an old man of 80 who lives by the public landing , and he's always going on about how we really need to fight this war like we mean it, an old WWII officer. And how we're on this earth for less than 100 years, but we're in heaven or hell forever, and do you know where you're going? And then he wishes us to "have a good time." I can almost hear him saying, "Yes, you go have a good time now, you kids. 'Cause having a good time's what's important, right? I don't see anywhere in the Bible where God says to have a good time, do you? No, it's not in there. You wanna know something, kid? I was never, ever a teenager. There were no teenagers when I was coming up. I went to work and I'm still working today. God didn't make man so that man could have a good time. He made man for work, and he made work for man. Man for work, work for man. He didn't say to Adam and Eve, 'now you two young'uns go'n have a good time.' No! He certainly did not. He said to go and toil on the land for the rest of your short miserable days, to die a wretch, until such time as by the grace of God he who might save your spirit might rise to show us all a better way." But the old man is really quite nice and apologetic. He realizes that some of us nosing in on his baliwick are blue state transplants, and that the brimstone politics of yesteryear won't fly in a politically correct age.
posted by Paul Frank Walters @ 22:12
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