Duane's thoughts June 29, 2016

OK, I know that I am really going to be showing my age on this one. When I was a kid there was an animated commercial with a kid singing the Oscar Meyer Wiener song:

"Oh, I wish I were and Oscar Meyer wiener. That is what I’d truly like to be. ‘Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, Everyone would be in love with me."

Then there was a second commercial with a bratty kid singing:

“Oh, I’m glad I’m not an Oscar Meyer wiener. That is what I’d truly hate to be. ‘Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, There would soon be nothing left of me.”

Yeah, I know they resurrected the song with a few changes but I remember the old song. The original song. And you know what? When I was a kid, I really did love Oscar Meyer wieners. Of course there were a lot of other things I loved. Like ice cream (especially vanilla chocolate chip), and anything with lemons in it, and water mellon (especially water mellon!) and I loved my bicycle even though now I really love my motorcycle. I also love traveling, always have, always will. I love photography and making things (do you know I designed and sewed two prom dresses when I was in high school?) There are so many things that I love.

Which makes me think. It’s kind of an over used word, isn’t it? DO we really mean we love something - that we couldn’t do without it? Most of the things I say that I love, I don’t really need and although I might miss them if I lost them, it wouldn’t be earth shattering (except maybe the motorcycle - that would really hurt to lose it). So, do I really love these things? Or do I just like them and like the idea of having them? What are the things I really love?

I love my wife, Adele. I love my daughter, Julia. And not because I possess them, but because they possess me. True love isn’t taking, it’s giving. In John 3:16 John wrote: “God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” And then in 1 John 4:19 he wrote “We love because God first loved us.” (Pretty awesome stuff from a guy who used to be called one of the “Sons of Thunder” because of his temper).

There is an Russian proverb that says “Love is like a potato. You can throw it out the window, but it grows wherever it lands.”

Coming up this weeK:

New Light, Friday night at 7:15, July 1 (Hey, did you know that it’s Canada Day?)

We still have lots of S’more fixings as well as ice cream float fixings, pizza rolls and other stuff guaranteed not to be too healthy.

Monday is the Fourth of July. Anyone going for fireworks?

If anyone is interested in rock climbing, let me know. I have all the equipment checked out and ready to go.

And if anyone has anything they would like prayer for or would like to talk with someone about, we are always available.

Allen Cheung - avaliant@gmail.com

Sudden Gurung - sgurung2s@yahoo.com

Veronica Conte - mail4veronica@gmail.com

Duane Fowler - dlfowler@comcast.net

Cheers,

Duane

Wishing you LOTS of potatoes!