by Jesse Abel
A Word from Papa “J”
Just taking a stroll through the “Howdy Dowdy” show! Don’t remember it? If not; then I feel a bit saddened for you. There was Buffalo Bob, Clarabell, Princes Summerfallwinterspring and a host of others. Did you know that Robert Keeshan was the first person to play the role of Clarabell the Clown? No doubt you know him better as “Captain Kangaroo”!
Good Morning
The Selfridge Department Store was founded in 1909 in London, England and even today is a very well-known store. One day in the mid-nineteen sixties the Navy Destroyer I was on pulled into Portsmouth, England for a weekend so I decided to go to the Department Store and look around. For this being the first time in London, I had an agenda that would take me to several sights so I was in a bit of a hurry.
I could not find the Selfridge store so I stopped one of the men who were briskly walking by. “Sir, I am looking for the Selfridge Department Store, can you tell me how to get there?” and with a superb English accent he said; “Lad, walk down to the end of the street and turn left, then at the end of the block, turn left again, then at the end of that block turn left again. Then at the end of the next block, you may want to turn left again since half way down that block the door to Selfridge will be on your left”.
I said, “Sir you’ve taken me around the block”! “He said; “precisely, the door is right behind you.”! With that he did a partial “Queen Ann salute with his umbrella and marched away with some remark about wondering if all American sailors were that naïve. Stranger things have happened to me, so no doubt that being my first time in London… I was naïve!
The story above is true and bit comical, the events below are true too but have a better and everlasting effect.
The naïve and the ignorant are in the slippery places of life, often in cast away places and headed for destruction. In the loftiness of folly these go astray and are brought to death. In a moment of time they are utterly consumed with terrors within the mind. Terrors that may be real or false, like that of someone in a foreign land or like a nightmare.
As saints we struggle with the very same issues of life as those who perish. Yet God is our deliver from such things that trouble the soul of his saints, we do not need to remain naïve or ignorant of the grace of God, He readily removes the images of fear from the heart of those who put their trust in Him.
When we cry out with a grievous heart and when we are pierced in our mind with troublesome things we can become like the foolish ones, even like a beasts who frets over its next meal. Nevertheless God is continually with His saints, He holds us by His All Powerful Right Hand. He guides us with Perfect Council. Not for just that moment of foolishness or ignorance, not for that hour of trouble or season of despair but throughout time and eternity too. You are not in good hands with a good god; but you are in Perfect Hands with God as your Father and Jesus as LORD. Psalm 73:1-28
Just taking a stroll through the “Howdy Dowdy” show! Don’t remember it? If not; then I feel a bit saddened for you. There was Buffalo Bob, Clarabell, Princes Summerfallwinterspring and a host of others. Did you know that Robert Keeshan was the first person to play the role of Clarabell the Clown? No doubt you know him better as “Captain Kangaroo”!
Good Morning
The Selfridge Department Store was founded in 1909 in London, England and even today is a very well-known store. One day in the mid-nineteen sixties the Navy Destroyer I was on pulled into Portsmouth, England for a weekend so I decided to go to the Department Store and look around. For this being the first time in London, I had an agenda that would take me to several sights so I was in a bit of a hurry.
I could not find the Selfridge store so I stopped one of the men who were briskly walking by. “Sir, I am looking for the Selfridge Department Store, can you tell me how to get there?” and with a superb English accent he said; “Lad, walk down to the end of the street and turn left, then at the end of the block, turn left again, then at the end of that block turn left again. Then at the end of the next block, you may want to turn left again since half way down that block the door to Selfridge will be on your left”.
I said, “Sir you’ve taken me around the block”! “He said; “precisely, the door is right behind you.”! With that he did a partial “Queen Ann salute with his umbrella and marched away with some remark about wondering if all American sailors were that naïve. Stranger things have happened to me, so no doubt that being my first time in London… I was naïve!
The story above is true and bit comical, the events below are true too but have a better and everlasting effect.
The naïve and the ignorant are in the slippery places of life, often in cast away places and headed for destruction. In the loftiness of folly these go astray and are brought to death. In a moment of time they are utterly consumed with terrors within the mind. Terrors that may be real or false, like that of someone in a foreign land or like a nightmare.
As saints we struggle with the very same issues of life as those who perish. Yet God is our deliver from such things that trouble the soul of his saints, we do not need to remain naïve or ignorant of the grace of God, He readily removes the images of fear from the heart of those who put their trust in Him.
When we cry out with a grievous heart and when we are pierced in our mind with troublesome things we can become like the foolish ones, even like a beasts who frets over its next meal. Nevertheless God is continually with His saints, He holds us by His All Powerful Right Hand. He guides us with Perfect Council. Not for just that moment of foolishness or ignorance, not for that hour of trouble or season of despair but throughout time and eternity too. You are not in good hands with a good god; but you are in Perfect Hands with God as your Father and Jesus as LORD. Psalm 73:1-28
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