Thursday; November 14
It is hard to believe it was forty years ago that I sat in those teenaged devotionals back in south Florida and west Texas. It seems like it was only yesterday that we sat around in people’s homes or around a campfire and sang what we called “devo songs”. (I also have a hard time believing that those songs have become “traditional Christian music” that the younger generations view as being archaic. Wow, I guess I am old!) Last Sunday morning we sang one of these songs in our worship service, “They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love”. Not only did it give me a ride in the way-back machine, it got me to thinking about things from my modern perspective. One verse that got me to thinking was, “We will work with each other, we will work side by side - we will work with each other, we will work side by side – and we’ll guard each one’s dignity and save each other’s pride – and they will know we are Christians by our love, by our love – they will know we are