Happy Hour Is An App

So Everyone Who's Alive, This Is You
So Everyone Who's Alive, This Is You

Our lives have been irrevocably changed since the advent of _______.

Fill in the blank, but don’t forget the less obvious choices:

  • Fire
  • Bow & Arrow
  • Boat
  • Wheel
  • Paper
  • Bridge
  • Toothbrush
  • Happy Hour

Our Pastor was telling a story yesterday about a fellow Priest who worked until he was 86. This Pastor friend had two sayings posted on his mirror:

  1. Happy Hour is an app
  2. Time is running out

Yesterday’s Gospel reading’s hypothesis was that to whom much has been given, much will be required, which is why I don’t have time for this (drinking) app.

But we can be certain the 86-year old Pastor wasn’t talking about 2-for-1.

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Little Crosses

When driving through Frankenmuth, Michigan, I’m

always intrigued with the many simple little crosses

I see in the front yards of the homes we pass by.

Those crosses are a statement of support for the

Frankenmuth’s Christian foundation.

Two years ago an atheist living there complained

about two crosses on a bridge in town. He

requested that they be removed, and so the town

removed them.

Then he decided that since he was so successful

with that, the city shield should also be changed

since it had on it, along with other symbols, a

heart with a cross inside signifying the city’s

Lutheran beginnings.

At that point, the residents decided they had had

enough. Hundreds of residents made their

opinions known by placing small crosses in their

front yards.

Seeing this quiet but powerful statement from

the community, the man removed his complaint.

Those simple crosses remain in those front yards

today.