Were you a kid in the Fifties or earlier? Everybody
makes fun of our childhood! Comedians joke. Grandkids
snicker. Twenty-something's shudder and say "Eeeew!"
But was our childhood really all that bad? Judge for
yourself:
In 1953 The US population was less than 150 million...
Yet you knew more people then, and knew them better...
And that was good.
The average annual salary was under $3,000... Yet our
parents could put some of it away for a rainy day and
still live a decent life... And that was good.
A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents... But it was safe
for a five-year-old to skate to the store and buy
one... And that was good.
We played kick the can outside IN THE DARK and made
sure mom call for us only once to come in at 9:00.
Things were safe...And that was good.
Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet,
Gunsmoke and Lassie... So nobody ever heard of ratings
or filters... And that was good.
We didn't have air-conditioning... So the windows
stayed up and half a dozen mothers ran outside when
you fell off your bike... And that was good.
Your teacher was either Miss Matthews or Mrs. Logan or
Mr. Adkins... But not Ms Becky or Mr. Dan... And that
was good.
The only hazardous material you knew about... Was a
patch of grassburrs around the light pole at the
corner... And that was good.
You loved to climb into a fresh bed... Because sheets
were dried on the clothesline... And that was good.
People generally lived in the same hometown with their
relatives... So "child care" meant grandparents or
aunts and uncles... And that was good.
Parents were respected and their rules were law....
Children did not talk back..... and that was good.
TV was in black-and-white... But all outdoors was in
glorious color....And that was certainly good.
Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's carburetor...
And the Dad next door knew how to adjust all the TV
knobs... And that was very good.
Your grandma grew snap beans in the back yard... And
chickens behind the garage... And that was definitely
good.
And just when you were about to do something really
bad... Chances were you'd run into your Dad's high
school coach... Or the nosy old lady from up the
street... Or your little sister's piano teacher... Or
somebody from Church...
ALL of whom knew your parents' phone number... And
YOUR first name... And even THAT was good! ~ ~ ~ ~
I don't know about you but I still remember Nancy
Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott &
Costello, Sky King, Little Lulu comics, Brenda
Starr, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone
Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale,
Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a
real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled
with bike rides, playing in cowboy land, playing hide
and seek and kick-the-can and Simon Says,
baseball games, amateur shows at the local theater
before the Saturday matinee, bowling and visits to the
pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with
sugar, and wax lips and bubblegum cigars.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah,
I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?
--Author unknown.
--Found circulating the Net via email.
Today's Truth: "A Silent Sermon!"
A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending
services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor
decided to visit him.
It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone,
sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor's
visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the
fireplace and waited. The pastor made himself at home but said
nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the
flames around the burning logs.
After some minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully
picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the
hearth all alone. Then he sat back in his chair, still silent. The
host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone
ember's flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow
and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead. Not a
word had been spoken since the initial greeting.
The pastor glanced at his watch and realized it was time to
leave, he slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed
it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow,
once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it.
As the pastor reached the door to leave, his host said with a
tear running down his cheek, "Thank you so much for your visit and
especially for the fiery sermon. I shall be back in church next
Sunday."
--Selected from God@Work newsletter. God@Work is a ministry of St Mark's United Methodist Church, 8550 Pioneers Blvd., Lincoln Nebraska 68520 U.S.A.
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