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The Most Important Question
This past couple of weeks we've been
asking the Dayton community by way of TV and radio an
important question. Well, the question 'What is God
like?' is the most important question you can ask,
because your understanding of God has everything to do
with your understanding of self. It is a matter of
identity.
  I don't know how many of you got up
Saturday morning to watch Princess Diana's funeral. It
was a tragedy this past weekend, and the thing that
amazes me is that not a lot is being said about the
chauffeur. The chauffeur forgot who he was. I mean,
didn't they say that the test said that his blood-alcohol
level was four times past that of the legal limit for
France? I mean, the man was drunk. He forgot who he was.
He forgot that he was entrusted with the life of a
princess.
 Have you heard about the kid down at
LSU? His second day back at college, he died binge
drinking. Eleven other kids went to the hospital sick.
This is becoming an epidemic around the country and
they're releasing lists of the "Top Ten Party
Schools." Our children do not know who they are
because they have forgotten whose they are.
Last
weekend we took our daughter back to college and I was
driving home - she's about eight hours away - and driving
home I was reflecting over the summer. She'd been home
about three and a half months and I thought back to
Father's Day. Father's Day she had worked late and driven
down to Cincinnati to my parent's home where we were
going to celebrate. Just before we left there that night
she stretched up to hug my mom & dad and I noticed
that she had a belly button ring. She'd been home a
month, I went, "Wow, a belly button ring!" It
just kind of popped out! She kind of looked over at me
really sheepishly. I go "Kristen, when did you do
that?" She said they did that over Easter break at
college. I said, "Well you've been home a month, why
didn't you tell me?" She said, "Well, Dad,
Amanda at church said that you'd probably get mad."
I said, "Kristen it is not about body piercing.
That's not what it comes down to. Or Benj Miller's orange
hair. It's not about that." |
