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Kokomo Kootsie
3/28/2002
Nibbles- Bits & Pieces
Mrs. Jones
‘Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like Mrs. Jones.’
For some living today, Mrs. Jones was a very familiar name, and place to them. Everyone needed her and visited her often on a regular basis.
For you see, Mrs. Jones, was the Outhouse, the privy, the toilet! She was almost always located on the back of the lot, next to the alley. Most had one seat; some had two seats; holes, really.
Heavy traffic to Mrs. Jones during a year, which happened if she belonged to a large family, required a good spring cleaning out.
One day, the huge Italian family next door, decided it was house cleaning time for Mrs. Jones.
Four of the heavy, grown men of the family, armed with shovels, went to Mrs. Jones’ house and lifted her bodily up and set her aside. Then they began to shovel dirt into her basement, from a huge nearby pile.
Soon the job was finished, or so they thought! One of the men decided it was, and decided to stomp it down solid, pack it tight. So he stepped over on to the fill, and began to stomp-and immediately sunk in to his waist!!
There he was, stuck up to his middle in Mrs. Jones’ commodity, and couldn’t get out without help, which his buds, couldn’t give, because they were in various modes of laughter; some bent double; and at least one on the ground rolling in fits of loud mirth!
The hapless one trapped, was shaking his fist and swearing loudly-holding his arms high over his head, as if afraid of having his fingers nipped off!
Finally someone reached over, and helped pull him free; and jumped hurriedly back, when he saw the poor fellow covered and dripping with earth and ordure.
Their loud laughter and back slapping continued as the angry fellow made his way to the barn, shaking and flinging his hands, arms, and legs every step of the way.
Soon an old lady came from the backdoor, with fresh clothes over her arms; she was making noises like an old setting hen, quarrelling all the way into the barn.
He was hosed down by his old mother, and the water was surely cold, from the yelps and cursing coming from that barn.
I was only six years old then, but I never forgot that scene, and I have to chuckle yet, when I let it roll before the eyes of my mind, so many years later.
It was some scene and so funny.
Nehemiah 3:14
But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem, he build it, and sat up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
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Kokomo Kootsie
3/28/2002
Nibbles- Bits & Pieces
Love!
Love! It becomes a hotly controversial subject, just now!
There are all kinds of love, all degrees of love; possessive love, misguided loves all kinds. More sin and crime is done under the love banner than any other possibly, except money.
This concerns the love verse from the bible: ‘No greater love hath a man than he give his life for a friend.’
I agree, if you are willing to give your life for someone, there truly could not be a greater way to show love. The kind of love God means and wants us all to have for our fellowman, for on another.
That’s God’s example to show us how great and wonderful love is. The kind he wants us to have and practice in our lives.
He does not and is not telling us to do that; give up our lives for another, specifically and without reservation. We are given intelligence to use, therefore know, if we are free to do that, if ever confronted with such a circumstance.
God does not tell us to do anything without thought, without figuring the consequences. It’s to understand the power of the love he speaks of all through the bible. God knows life is very precious to all, and no one, but no one wants to give it up willingly. But if we do, that is the ultimate love.
Since God has given us a brain, He expects us to be able to know, to do, what is right to do, in any given situation. To want to, and be willing to, give up your life for a friend.
God himself, would count you foolish to save a friend at the cost of making a widow of your wife, and orphan your children!
The family is sacred to God. They come first. A man or woman is told to leave their parents and cleave to one another in love, forming their own family with children. So toss it away to save a friends life is or would be greatest example of true unselfish love but would be foolish for you to do that. You do not desert your wife and children. God is not asking you to do that.
Do not argue in, ‘blind faith,’ God would see your family! That is your job to do. ‘Man does not live by bread alone.’ So-who takes the place of the spouse to the wife? Who is daddy, to read to his children, play ball, be a real father, an example for them all?
‘Blind Faith’ is to be fully understood, as well as he wants you to understand, Love.
A minister once told my small granddaughter, it was ‘blind faith,’ if you decided to stand out in the middle of our busy street, as cars whizzed by on both sides and know you would not be hit, would be safe. God would take care of you!
Don’t try it!
God expects you to use common sense he gave you. You have no reason or business in the middle of the street, just standing there.
You are not to test God or ask for a sign!
God does not expect you to give up your family, your wife and children, for anyone.
He only expects and hopes, you to understand what love really is and act accordingly. The extent you can and should show that love. The sacrifices you should and will make, to show that real love.
But the sacrifice is not your family-recall-‘let no man put asunder.’ You are a man-and a husband-‘the head of the wife’!!
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