4 Days Off

Well, Thanksgiving for 2005 has come and gone. The turkey carcass has been picked clean and for those who are into frugality, it has been boiled for soup or stock. Most of us overindulged at the table. I had two Thanksgiving meals, one at my mother-in-laws and one at my mothers. The food at both were excellent. The company however was a different matter.

Why is it that people cannot get along? When there is a family get together, someone always seems to make someone mad or we have to walk on egg shells because we don't want to upset someone. At my mother's meal, my sister and her husband (a Baptist preacher in a small church, both conservative Baptist Christians) were upset because we had wine with our meal. They do not approve of alchohol in any way, shape or form and were upset by the fact that we had wine at dinner. Now they have isolated themselves from the family by moving to Kentucky and we would have had wine with the meal if they weren't there.

My other brother-in-law made what I thought was a witty remark concerning the wedding celebration where Christ turned water into wine so the party could continue. He asked my Baptist brother-in-law if the anti-christ would have turned the wine into water. For some reason I was the only one to laugh.

This left the meal very uncomfortable and the after meal conversation anemic. I understand that they do not approve of drinking alchohol and that their beliefs are such that they look down on those who do but their attitudes are not mine and the Christ I accepted into my heart does not frown on drinking wine. Christ accepted everyone, even sinners. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Love one another as I love you. Wow! Nothing new but it still packs a wollup..


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