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The “Quick Takes” page of the May 27, 2006 issue of World spoke
of several oddities in the news.
Ed Larkins, of Milford, Mass. named the 300-pound cement gnome given to
him for his 70th birthday “Shamus.” When bandits stole
Shamus, he couldn’t believe it. “I went into the house screaming,
‘Shamus is gone! Shamus is gone!’ It was like losing a child.”
When Danish college students wanted to protest a reduction in government
grants for education, they dumped 440 pounds of cooked spaghetti (with
sauce) on the steps of the finance ministry in Copenhagen.
Perpetual college student Johnny Lechner, an undergraduate
student at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater for twelve years,
has accumulated 234 credit hours, more than 100 more hours above what is
needed to graduate. He continues his “quest” for a degree in the fall.
Don’t you wonder why people do the things they do? What does
spaghetti have to do with education grants? Why would anyone spend
twelve years and counting, piling up hours without graduating? Why would
anyone steal a 300-pound cement gnome? Who would want a 300-pound cement
gnome in the first place?
But don’t you know that our heavenly Father must look down
on us and shake His head in wonder at the way we live sometimes. “No man
can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your
life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body,
what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than
raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one
cubit unto his stature?” (Matthew 6:24-27).
Why?
by Bob Prichard
www.oxfordchurchofchrist.com |
