I think we need a nationwide prescription for
For those who didn’t grow up in the south, attending a week of Vacation Bible School every summer, that was a week long time where you said pledges to flags and the bible, made crafts out of popsicle sticks, played games and at the little “pinkie cookies”—the one with the hole in the center that you would put on your pinkie and eat around. Some of my best memories of growing up are around
It was also where I first learned Bible verses. They would be written on posters, we would put them on crafts, we would write them on our hearts. It was there that I had my most important theology class about the nature of God—God is love. It was there that I had my most important ethics class—Be ye kind, one to another.
In the past few weeks I have come to believe that we need a remedial
But then, we have come to expect that kind of behavior from them! I mean, politicians, athletes, rock starts—who really expects them to be kind one to another?
But what about us? Especially those of us in the church, those who claim to follow the God who is love? How are we doing on the kindness front? I have heard of families which have come apart and suddenly people forget to be kind. They are just mean. I have heard of congregations and ministers suddenly at each other’s throats—forgetting to be ye kind!
I also see it at times in myself—how kind am I when I am cut off in traffic, when I am standing in a check-out line, when I can’t watch my favorite TV show because someone else has taken my TV? Oh, I don’t yell, or threaten, or force myself in, but how kind am I?
Maybe what our nation needs is some time with popsicle stick crafts, a “pinkie cookie” and a memory verse poster to take home. “Be ye kind, one to another.”
