Read and learn
FEBRUARY 23, 2008 (SATURDAY)
Browsing the headlines of the online newspapers this week, I ran across several items of interest. You never know what you might read in the newspapers these days.
I read about a pastor in Florida who called upon all his married church members to have sex every day for a month. Wha..? The object of the agenda is to build more intimacy in marriage. Call me old-fashioned, or just call me old, but I don’t understand how such a suggestion could ever be issued from the church pulpit. The pastor can preach on whatever he likes for the next month, because the congregation will not be thinking about his sermon.
I turned to another page and read where Hunter Pence walked through a closed glass door that shattered and showered him with shards. His team mates are teasing him mercilessly. As Molly used to say on the old radio, “’Tain’t funny, McGee.” I did that a couple of months ago, but I was fortunate because the glass didn’t break. I was unfortunate, though, because it was the front door of a house where about 30 people watched the dignified pastor make a fool of himself. It hurt and it messed up my eyeglasses. The rest of the evening was spent by all of us studiously avoiding mention of my excellent example of stupidity. (When we first moved into our house on Pine Avenue in Rockport, several family members and guests walked into an interior sliding glass door. First, I hung a stained glass icon on the door so it wouldn’t be invisible, and then I screwed it to the floor so it could no longer be in the closed position.)
Will Rogers loved to say, “All I know is what I read in the papers.” I don’t know what was in the papers back then, but they are fairly interesting today.