WISDOM FROM A FOUNDING FATHER - Just a Minute Radio 12-02-08 Tuesday.

Hello Again…

Great to have you with us. We’re in what I call the ‘swivet’ time again… At least that was the name my mother gave it. Things get so busy we’re all “in a swivet” – [Maybe it’s spelled swivit… ]

Well… that got me started… I couldn’t find it in my New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary… and I’ve found the fastest way to get to odd information like that is to try Google on the Internet… sure enough it turns out to be spelled both ways. I also turned up a blog or two about outdoors in the snow… and being around the Holidays [like we are] in a state of ‘perpetual agitation’ – That’s good enough … I think I’ll leave it there. I’m sure if you didn’t get the idea it’ll come along and whap you soon.

According to my elderly aunts and grandparents the holidays in “olden days” were much different than they are today. My mother’s farming family in the region between Mauldin and Simpsonville in Greenville County SC was much afflicted – to hear them tell it – by the Great Depression. So I’m pretty sure I was a ‘depression baby’ which means I’m frugal to the point of being ‘penny-wise and pound foolish’ which we’ll have to leave for another day’s reminiscences. [Praise the Lord for spell-checkers.]

There were eight children in that two-mule farm raising corn, cotton (the cash crop) a rather large vegetable garden – a cow or two and quite a few chickens for eggs and Sunday dinners. Well… that’s another day’s bloggin’ but it’s fun to remember just a little bit. The kids get tired easily but I remember all those grown ups talking about they were too poor to have fireworks so to simulate the noise around New Years Eve they’d get a stick of lumber each… and stand in a circle and see if they all could make a bang by flappin’ it on the ground either in sequence or all together. Next they’d start off on a story about using a ladder as a long sled out on the pasture hill when it snowed (which is now home to about 14 homes)… We can jump on our memory horses and ride off in all directions. J

I have a grandson who seems to be gifted along with his three brothers… in using and enjoying computers. But the oldest has the persistence and mind of a ‘tinkerer’ and I’m needing his help with this machine now… but he’s off in Hawaii with most of the rest of his family. I think some time in the future they will have *many, many* stories to tell for they have lived in Hawaii… Samoa … and Fiji… and who knows how many South Sea stories are tucked away in those young guy’s heads.

Gotta get outta here… it’s too late to be typing. Drop me an e-mail if you wish… the address is at the bottom… that’s probably easier than going through the rig-a-mo-role of signing-in, passwords and all that – and I’ll get back to you ASAP.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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WISDOM FROM A FOUNDING FATHER

JUST A MINUTE – History records Thomas Jefferson -- 3rd President of our country -- as a deist one who believes in God but not necessarily in Christ as Saviour and Lord. He published his own “Bible” removing all the parts with which he did not agree.

It’s totally puzzling to see such a brilliant man to reject such obvious truth – nonetheless here are words which mark an indelible record of Jefferson’s faith and the strength of his belief -- although by his own account not in Christ as Saviour.

President Jefferson wrote: (quote) "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."

I call President Jefferson’s words to the attention of President-Elect Obama and the government he’s intent on forming.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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