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Kids Write To The Pastor Dear Pastor, I would like to go to heaven someday because I know my brother won’t be there. Stephen, age 8 Dear Pastor, I know God loves everybody but He never met my sister. Arnold, age 8 Dear Pastor, Please say in your sermon that Sam Peterson has been a good boy all week. I am Sam Peterson (age 9). Dear Pastor, My father should be a minister. Every day he gives us a sermon about something. Robert, age 11 Dear Pastor, I’m sorry I can’t leave more money in the plate, but my father didn’t give me a raise in my allowance. Could you have a sermon about a raise in my allowance? Patty, age 10 Dear Pastor, My mother is very religious. She goes to play bingo at church every week, even if she has a cold. Annette, age 9 Dear Pastor, I think a lot more people would come to your church if you moved it to Disneyland. Loreen, age 9 Dear Pastor, Please pray for all airline pilots. I am flying to California tomorrow. Laurie, age 10 Dear Pastor, I hope to go to heaven someday but later than sooner. Love, Ellen, age 9 Dear Pastor, Please say a prayer for our little league team. We need God’s help or a new pitcher. Alexander, age 10 Dear Pastor, Are there any devils on earth? I think there may be one in my class. Carla, age 10 Dear Pastor, I liked your sermon last Sunday—especially when it was finished. Ralph, age 11 Dear Pastor, How does God know good people from bad people? Do you tell Him or does He read about it in the newspapers? Marie, age 9
Signs From Clever Minds Shoe Repair Shop: We will heel you. We will save your sole. We will even dye for you. Curtain & Blinds Truck: Blind man driving. Gynecologist Office: Dr. Jones, at your cervix. Podiatrist Office: Time wounds all heels. Septic Tank Truck: Yesterday’s meals on wheels Optometrist Office: If you don’t see what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place. Plumbing Company Truck: We repair what your husband fixed. Tire Shop: Invite us to your next blowout. Electrical Service Truck: Let us remove your shorts. Labor/Delivery Room Door: Push, Push, Push. Muffler Shop: No appointment necessary. We hear you coming.
Veterinarian Waiting Room: Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!” Restaurant Window: Don’t stand there hungry; come on in and get fed up. Funeral Home: Drive carefully. We’ll wait. Propane Gas Tank Exchange: Thank Heaven for little grills. Radiator Shop: Best place in town to take a leak.
Quotes From Thomas Sowell “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” l “Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of ‘diversity’ that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen–written in blood–from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji Sowell to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.” l “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” l “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” l “Some people pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being ‘simplistic.’ l “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” l “Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea—in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. We should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” l “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” l “The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” l “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” l “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” l “Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.” l “Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on ‘income distribution,’ the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.” l
Cemetery Visit, Reflections
In September New Jersey forester Bob Williams took this photo of a load of Atlantic white cedar, harvested in Jersey by logger Colin McLaughlin, owner of Advanced Forestry Solutions. The logs were bound for a sawmill in North Carolina.
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As she visited a large military cemetery, the military widow took some photos and reflected on what’s going on in America today. Then she wrote this poem: I don’t see any color here, The headstones look the same, No black, no brown, no white skin tone; There’s no one here to blame. These soldiers fought and died for you, Their color you can’t see. Your rights are still protected, Here’s the place to take a knee.
OCTOBER 2020 l Southern Loggin’ Times
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