Memorial Day service

At church on Sunday, the music directer, Bro Rick showed a slide show of pictures of a soldier and his children while a lady in the choir sing a song about a Hero Coming Home. It was about a dad missing out on the important things in his children's lives due to him fighting for our Country.



That song and show was so touching and was so hard to watch without shedding a tear. We had 2 soldiers in uniform in the service and later found out that one of the men, will be deployed back to Iraq soon. Please remember to continue to pray for our soldiers and their families.

After the song was over, I heard crying and boo hooing. Bro Jack, our pastor went up to one of our church members sitting up front and put his arm on him and announced that Dennis, the man that was crying, had lost his elderly mother earlier this week. I lost it and tears began rolling down my face. No, his mom wasn't a soldier, but she was his hero coming home to Heaven. How devastating for that poor man to deal with such a loss and be right back at church on Sunday. He and his mom were very close and he was so faithful to her. She was older and would always walk around hugging and greeting everyone during the visitation. Such a friendly lady. They are kind of a needy family and I think everyone in the church knew Dennis and his mom. My family went to their house to Christmas carol a couple years ago. His mom will be missed by many. Please pray for this sweet man as he is on his own now and has just lost his mother.



Our pastor went on to preach on the 10 Commandments. We were reading in Deuteronomy 5: 6-21. We were talking about using the Lord's name in vain and he said, the movie Avatar was the #1 movie and had the word G** D***** in it two times. What is this nation coming to? For millions of people to watch and support movies that use God's name in vain like that. That disgusts me.



Also, verse 12 says, remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. Well, one of the busy shopping days for retailers is on Sundays. That is when they make all their $$$ and someone has to work to keep it open. When I was little, I remember nothing being opened on Sunday. We would go to church and come home and spend the day together as a family.



Another interesting statistic that Bro Jack reported was comparing schools in the 70's and the 90's. After looking at the statistics and knowing that prayer was taken out of schools. I am pretty positive that some of these problems would probably not be occurring if WE still had PRAYER in our public schools. I was trying to take notes quickly, but here is what I got. These were the biggest problems then and now, check this out.....



1970's

not putting trash properly in trash can

not doing Homework

talking out with out permission

violating dress code

not listening to teacher



Now, here are the 1990's

drug abuse in schools

mass murder

teen pregnancy

alcohol use

suicide

profanity use



This is pretty scary to see the dramatic changes. I know I have witnessed and experienced a few of the problems from 90's being a teacher. This is so sad. Please pray for our country!