BIG DAYWas your “Columbus Day” celebration some kind of a big bust again this year? I’ve never been one to put a great deal of either effort or money in a set of hours culled out of the month of October to either the honor or the blame for discovering this side of the planet Earth.
I have never become used to a government which can butt in without even as a much as a “How ‘d do, Miss Agnes” and changes the dates around so holidays don’t happen on the day intended. In fact, I missed it entirely this year. “Columbus Day” would be today on my wall calender. I was well into Monday before I found we had not received a single “application for credit cards” or “refinance now...” It finally sank in with me – we were celebrating a holiday and there would be no delivery of mail. “Holiday for what? I asked and a confident voice replied “Sumpin’ about Memorial Day, they say...!” So much for the official observation of Columbus Day 2005 at our household, except two days later when I looked at the wall colander that October 12 is to be remembered as being “the first day Observatories” I looked back a few days and, sure enough, I had missed Columbus Day which had been celebrated this year on Monday, June 10th which is also “Thanksgiving Day in Canada”. That's so close to ours. It’s a shame we didn’t get together and agree to have the same date. Ours used to be set on the last Thursday of the month of November, but F.D.R. Get both honored and blamed now for setting it up a week or two earlier to provide a larger “envelope” for Christmas shopping.
I think the most humiliating change-of-date thing that can possibly occur in a family is one that deals with family groups. Having fallen away from regular churchgoers. They all arrive at the church and each of the children pushes into the crowded pews, sorry to be late and getting located during loud singing of the loud opening hymn roars to its conclusion and immediately the Pastor raises one arm. Every worshiper finds his or her place as he proclaimed firmly the words the words of Benediction marking the end of the church's first seasonal worship service under Daylight Savings Time!
I have seen in happen. There is no better time for forgiving; for compassionate understanding than at such a moment. We know that we can all fall short of what is set for us do to Not one of us is perfect. We all fall short of the wonders we are here to perform.
A.L.M. October 12, 2005 [c504wds]
