Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Page: 4 of 16
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OPINION PAGE
Page 4
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Coleman Chronicle & DV
THE SKUNK BLIND
ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE
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Cheers To Clyde Saverance, Joe Haynes, KSTA,
Daniel Stovall and the Chronicle & DV for a job well
done in promoting and organizing the Old-Old-Old
Time Gospel Jam and Concert. It was very enjoyable
and we heard some beautiful singing.
Also, thanks to the above mentioned for their pro-
Jeers to the party or parties that think it is okay to
dump their trash in our dumpster. We pay quite a bit
extra to have that dumpster on our property and it is
not for your use. You know who you are and thanks
to some of the items in your trash so do we.
Jo Cavanaugh
ran
the
“Steady as she goes,
Mother!”
guidance. She was a mile
past the scene of the crime
before she called 911.
Then a third traveler came
upon the victim: A cocaine
dealer and cartel member.
A man who was in the
country illegally, who had
booze on his breath and
marijuana in his blood-
stream, and who hadn’t
been to Mass since he was
a child.
He saw the shooting victim
and somehow his heart
was broken with compas-
sion. He steered his car to
the side of the road and
jumped out with a first aid
kit and a bottle of water. He
triaged the wounded man
the best he could, loaded
him into the back seat of his
car, and drove him to the
hospital.
Cheers ! to Holiday Hill Nursing Home for all their diligent
work and care for 2 people in our lives. They do a great job
! We couldn't survive without them !!!
My apologies to Anne for not getting this in 2 weeks
ago!
There, this good neighbor
checked his rescued friend
into the Emergency Room.
He arranged for the trans-
port of what was left of the
victim’s car, and he then
went to the hospital admin-
istrator with a pile of cash,
saying “I don’t know if this
man has health insurance,
but I will stand good for the
bill regardless.”
Now I ask you, “Which of
these three do you think
was a neighbor to the man
who fell into the hands of
robbers?” Of course this
question is not mine and
neither is the story. It is a
question and story that
belongs to Jesus. It is a
retelling of the parable of
the Good Samaritan.
Jesus framed as radical a
possibility conceivable by
Brett Autry
Amber Hardin
Ruth Poldrack
Karen Allen
Christine Flynn
Crissy Goulet
Lois Harper
Olivia de los Santos
Trudi Rutherford
Zane Laws
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Carol Jones
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A man was going from
Indianapolis, Indiana, to
Louisville, Kentucky, when
along the way he had a flat
tire. Stranded on the side of
the road, he was robbed,
his car was stripped, he
was shot, and left for dead.
A Baptist pastor, on his way
home from the annual
meeting of his denomina-
tion, saw the man. But he
had a report to deliver to his
congregation about the vir-
tuous resolutions passed at
the meeting he had just
attended and an important
sermon to preach about our
culture’s deteriorating fami-
ly values. Besides that, his
children were in the car,
and he refused to trauma-
rifle! Look! The chain is
broke! Behind you now!
Don’t let go! He’s toward
the house!”
Dad, rifle in hand, told
Mom to give the cord a
quick jerk and run as fast
as she could to keep the
skunk from getting his
feet on the ground to
spray. Mom took off like
a beach umbrella in a
hurricane! Through the
flower beds, across the
yard, over the hedge and
onto the gravel as fast as
“Faster! Faster!” yelled
Dad as he assumed the
shooting stance.
He debated whether to
build a “skunk blind” and
wait, or buy a “skunk
call” and lure them within
shooting range, or sim-
ply bomb the boneyard.
In the end he decided to
use a leg trap. First he
locked up the dogs and
all the cats he could
catch, then baited the
trap with bleu cheese
and set it.
At three o’clock in the
morning Darlin’
Daughter was wakened
by the sound of Dad
shouting at Mom. There
was a large ruckus!
Darlin’ listened though
her window and heard
Dad dancing around the
dog door as the chain on
the trap clanged against
the sheet metal shed!
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simply to love. And to love,
it is not necessary to have
perfect doctrinal integrity, to
get the details of church
“right,” or to be as religious-
ly and moralistically pure as
possible. No, to love like
God is to dirty our hands by
helping our neighbors - “to
do to others what we would
have done” for ourselves.
Clucking our tongues,
shedding a few tears, and
simply observing the pain
of our world while keeping
a religious and respectable
distance from the suffering
is no substitute for binding
wounds, wiping tears, and
embracing those in need.
We might just need such an
embrace ourselves one day
- even if that embrace
comes from the most
unlikely of neighbors.
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By: Baxter Black
One of the jobs of a Dad
is to protect his family
from invaders. It
explains his membership
in the NRA and his ten-
dency to look longingly
at the .357 magnum in
the glass case. He’s
never had to shoot a
grizzly bear or rabid
rhino, but he has imag-
ined it; saving the family
then striking a pose like
Thor on the pinnacle of
the Parthenon.
A covey of skunks had
taken over the boneyard
just over the hill from the
house. An uneasy truce
had been established
between Mammalius
squirtonamus and Dad
until...he discovered
they had been sneaking
into his machine shed
through the dog-door
and eating the dog’s
food!
tize them with this carnage.
So he never took his foot off
the accelerator.
A few minutes later, a
Bishop of the Methodist
church came driving by. A
successful woman, she sat
on the board of Focus on
the Family, the National
Association of
Evangelicals, and
Concerned Women for
America. Considering the
scene before her, she con-
cluded that her work in
these organizations must
continue.
It was the only way to stop
such meaningless acts of
violence; violence most
likely perpetrated by dan-
gerous gangs of teenagers
who were the products of
broken homes and without
the proper Judeo-Christian
Darlin’ Daughter
downstairs to
kitchen. She could hear
the clanking chain bang-
ing against the lattice
that surrounded the
porch deck. Meanwhile
Mom tied an extension
cord to the trap which
kept the skunk from
crawling underneath.
she could sail. Her night
gown fluttered and her
hair flew as she raced
onward in her bed slip-
pers with the skunk
bouncing crazily in her
wake!
the community of his day -
far more drastic than any-
thing I have said here. He
took a known pariah, a well-
established outcast and no-
gooder, and turned him into
a moral and spiritual hero -
all at the expense of the
upright church-goers.
Jesus told such a story, not
to define the boundaries of
neighborly behavior, but to
define what it means to
love. Graphically, he
showed his listeners that
those who do not fit into our
religious boxes, our precise
doctrinal categories of right
and wrong, and our church
systems are sometimes
more capable of acting like
God than we professionals
who pride ourselves in say-
ing we know who God is.
After all, to act like God is
Darlin’ stepped out onto
the porch. There was
Dad illuminated by the
yard light, poised; cow-
boy hat, tighty-whities,
high top boots, body the
color of cold chicken
breast, aiming his
22.250 into the dark-
ness, all proudly on dis-
play like Thor doing a
Fruit of the Loom com-
mercial under a big fat
Alberta moon!
“Get a shovel! Find a
board! Grab the chain!
Hose him down! Get my
Pol icy
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motion of our Greater Vision Concert. It was a won-
derful evening of gospel singing and sweet
Chrisitoan fellowship.
And to our Church family at Community Baptist
Church who worked so deligently in making our
Church property look so beautiful for our visitors.
A “Big Thanks” to all who attened and supported the
Gospel Jam and Singing and the Greater Vision con-
cert.
God Bless you
Anne Smith - Community Baptist Church
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Hardin, Amber. Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 25, 2012, newspaper, July 25, 2012; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1175084/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.