The Lamplighter
August 2009
From the Pastor’s Desk
I seldom read the comics section of the Sunday paper though there was a time when it was one of my favorite parts. I still like the old “Peanuts†cartoons, though there are only reruns now that Mr. Shultz is gone. I do remember one very old “Dennis the Menace†cartoon in which Dennis was kneeling beside his bed beginning his bedtime prayer. This is how he started: “God, you might want to pull up a chair. I’ve been very busy today.â€
I’m not real sure, but I suspect that more than a few of us have had days like that. Well, at least I have! Sometimes I wonder at the extent to which I must certainly try my maker’s patience and His willingness to forgive. More than one day, I confess, I have to agree with Paul’s summation of his daily activities where said in Romans: “For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the veil I do not want to do; this I keep on doing. ……what a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?â€
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