It’s Monday, so it’s time to begin a new week of to-do’s to be accomplished.
It’s January 16th, so my big little brother is flying back to Patrick Henry College today (the alma mater of more than one YLCF reader, I know). It was good to have him home for a month. I’ll only have to cook half as much now, but we’ll miss him.
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so I asked my siblings if they were going to do their schoolwork. “Who was he?” asked 7-year-old Caleb. When I answered, he decided he didn’t care, he would do school anyway. Maybe if I’d described it as Lee/Jackson/King Day like they do at Patrick Henry College, Caleb would have decided to take the holiday.
It’s a postal holiday, so I keep glancing up every time I hear a car slow down, but to no avail. My mailbox will all day remain bereft of a Hallmark envelope affixed with a love stamp.
It’s Monday, and it’s time to return to the normal routine. But if normal is just a setting on your dryer, will I never be considered normal when I dry my laundry on a clothesline?
Lee/Jackson/King Day? What an oxymoron! Also, don’t you think it’s important that your little brother understands the importance of King and the work he did for civil rights? I’m not saying he shouldn’t do his schoolwork – but he decided he didn’t care? Please! Share the importance of MLK Jr. with him! (I’m sorry if this is nit-picky – I know you weren’t trying to make a big deal about it. I won’t be offended if you delete my post – I just felt compelled to comment!)
Grace and peace to you!
In Virginia, Lee/Jackson day was last Friday and Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, today. All three men were heroes. Life is paradoxical
. Though if I could take my pick of holidays, I would choose today … I really like MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and when I took Rhetoric my class heard the audio of his “I Have a Dream” speech … it was cool 
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Sweet article!!! I love how you wrote it! It was awesome!
I have to agree…country is awesome…and is more christian sometimes than CCM. Take for instance “Thats What I Love About Sundays” which talks about what most of us love about sundays….or “Live Like you were Dying” reminding us that you have to live your life right and walk in forgiveness, and never forget it could be your last day.
Check out Craig Morgan…he is a christian and most of his songs are awesome… If you love country music and living a (Godly) country lifestyle you will love his song “Im Country” It’s real country! Thanks again Gretchen!
Kelci
*laughs* Hey, we used to hang our laundry on a clothesline. It was fun!
Haha, MLK was a hero of sorts . . . Lee and Jackson were heros of quite other sorts. Of course Gretchen’s brother should know about King and the good things he did for Civil Rights, but if we were to remember men more for their godly characters than for what today’s history books say they did, then I am convinced that we should all have had Friday off and gone to work today.
Gretchen R.
Hanging clothes on a line always gives me the most womanly feeling! =)
- Katie
*sigh* Being biracial, its sometimes hard to comment on issues like this. I firmly believe Andrew Jackson and Robert E. Lee deserve the same amount of respect and attention that is given to Dr. King. As long as no ones motives have any type of racist (sinful) overtones, there is absolutely nothing wrong with what what Gretchen wants her brother to learn.
Sometimes you have to be careful though, because the Christian Identity crowd uses comments like these to proprogate their agenda. It’s these type of people who scare me and make me feel like I have no place in God’s kingdom
http://www.kingidentity.com/
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I’m not quite sure what Gretchen R. is getting at about the character of these men… and I’m not sure I want to go there.
It does trouble me a bit to hear it implied that Lee and Jackson are more to be celebrated than King. But maybe you just meant that your brother was less familiar with the latter?
Wow, I tend to get political without even trying, don’t I?
I meant absolutely nothing racist. I grew up singing and believing “Jesus Loves the Little Children/all the children of the world/red, brown, yellow, black and white/they are precious in His sight.”
The black people I know are just as proud to be black as Southerners are proud to be Southerners and as I am to be a redhead. That’s how God made us! (And please forgive me if black isn’t the politically correct term, but that’s how my friends refer to themselves as.)
I guess we haven’t bothered to teach my 7-year-old brother yet that some people choose to discriminate against others. He has time enough in his life to learn that. If we talked about it, it could create a problem. And I have never believed in making mountains out of mole hills. Instead, he has learned the history of the Civil War, and Jackson and Lee are already his heroes (though we’re from the North, with not a drop of Southern blood in us!).
Please forgive me if anyone was offended. No offense was meant.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with Gretchen’s brother not caring if it is Martin Luther King Day. The Liberal media has so distorted his(MLK’s) ideals and what he worked hard for.
I love line dryed laundry, too. You can’t beat the smell and the feel is priceless.