i am getting more and more conservative all the time which, yes, i know that makes at least half of you totally ticked off.
it wasn't always the case. there was a time when i would have thought that "pew races," wherein, as i understand it, you slide yourself under the pews of a church as fast as you can while your friends do the same thing and you see who can get "there" first.......there was a time when i would have thought that was fun. i would have thought, what the hell, God has a good sense of humor, God won't mind if we do sack races in the sanctuary, God won't even mind if we play poker in here! (ok. so maybe He'd mind if we played poker.)
i would have thought that having fun - and "expressing ourselves" - is part of what God wants us to do and having it and doing it right here under His nose would make Him, well, would make Him wanna do pew races, too!
no.
absolutely not.
when you come over to my house, do you jump on my furniture?
do you crawl under the tables at a restaurant?
if you went to the white house to meet the president, would you wear flip-flops? (remember the flip-flop flap not too long ago?)
no, no, and no. why not? because it isn't re.spect.ful.
in a separate but related vein, i heard this guy on the radio the other day talking about how unhappy he is with the way that so many marriage proposals are being conducted these days. you know......things like asking her to marry you at the lakers game or parachuting off the top of a mountain with a sign on the balloon that pops the question (better to pop the question, i guess, than the balloon). things like that.
the guy on the radio was pointing out that a marriage proposal is - or at least, used to be and still should be - a serious, private, even holy occasion. not something for public consumption amongst a bunch of beer bottles and peanuts. and certainly not amongst a bunch of strangers.
a marriage proposal ought to occur somewhere quiet, personal, and reverential. he said that he thought proposing at church was probably thee best place of all.
i agree with him.
provided the pew races aren't that day.
