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Page 6B, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, October 9,2019 A Minister And A Day Off His Rocker From The Bible By Jerry Kingery Special to the Ledger Dr. James L Snyder I was tootling along one day last week, quite focused on getting my business for the day done. In fact, I was feel ing good about the prog ress I was making with my “to-do list.” Nothing is more satisfying to me than the sense of being in control of my sched ule. I love checking off items on my “to-do list.” As the scheme of things usual ly develops with me, this euphoric situation was not long-lived. It was left to the Gracious Mistress of the Parson age to bring a sense of reality into my life. “Haven’t you forgotten something?” She asked me. This question drove me back to my daily planner. Frantically, I searched my schedule to see what appointment I had missed or what project I had overlooked this time. With all due respect to her, I could not find anywhere in my schedule, or on my calendar, where I had missed anything. “No,” I cautiously said to her. “I seem to have covered everything.” With that, I flashed a confident smile in her direction. She caught that smile and returned a men acing glance in my immediate direction. I caught her drift, which clearly undermined my previous confidence in my schedule. “Don’t you recall,” my wife almost sneered, “your New Year’s reso lution?” This sent me into a mild panic. New Year’s resolu tions, as everybody except my wife knows, are not to be taken seriously. People make such resolutions only because it’s the thing to do at the time. What a person says on New Year’s Eve should have no bearing what soever with the coming New Year. Looking at her with all the seriousness I could muster at the time I said, “I really don’t know what you mean.” At the time, I thought she mistook my serious ness for what she likes to call “my flippancy.” “I think you know exactly what I mean,” she demanded. Seeing the blank ex pression on my face, or more blank than usual, she began to realize I had no idea what she was talking about. Plac ing both hands on her hips, which is a warning sign to me of something ominous to follow, she stated her case. “One of your New Year’s resolutions was to take a day off each week. When was the last time you took a day off?” She demanded. Then it all started coming back to me. I did remember such a resolution. But if I recall it accurately, someone, I’ll mention no names, backed me into a corner forcing me into such a resolution. At the time, the resolution was not the result of any serious contemplation on my part. I thought I was just placating her at the time. I never imagined months later she would be calling me on the carpet for it. “Well,” I stammered, “there was that week in February when I took several days off.” Then my smile returned to me along with a little bit of confidence. “You don’t mean those days you were sick in bed with a cold, do you? Tell me you’re not including those in the category of days off?” My smile along with my confidence deserted me. No matter what any body says, I do some times think of taking a day off. And people should get credit for some of their intentions. If, for example, I can’t actually take a day off, it should be enough to think about doing it. The only problem with this pitch is, my wife doesn’t buy it. Believe me, if she was buying, I would give a good discount to her. “Okay,” I conceded. “I’ll take a day off next week.” I thought that would settle it and with any good luck by next week she will have for gotten this conversation. This just points out one of the major differ ences between husbands and wives. When it comes to conversations, wives have total recall of every conversation they have ever had. Of course, I don’t know if my wife has total recall on our conversations. There have been times when I thought she was making up what I said 13 years ago. I just had no way to prove it. “Why not take a day off this week?” she queried. “Let me think about it,” I tried stalling her, “and I’ll get back with you on the day.” “How about tomor row? It’s a day,” she replied. Well, she had me there. Tomorrow was a day this week. My problem is I don’t like to make snap judgments on things affecting my schedule. Looking back on the conversation, I can see my mistake. I hesitated. In my many years as a husband, I have noted whenever I hesitated, my wife assumed it was a sign of agreeing with her proposal. “It’s settled then,” she said. “Tomorrow you will be taking the day off.” See Snyder, page 7B Sampson’s birth fortold And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name: But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, nei ther eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her. And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. She may not eat of any thing that com- See Bible, page 7B James L. Snyder Attend The House of Worship of Your Choice This Sunday Lee County Church Of Christ Eddie Garcia, Minister Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship..10:30 AM & 6:00 PM Smithville Baptist Lance Fendley, Pastor Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship...11 AM & 7 PM Philema Road Baptist Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Alpha Baptist Les Reed, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM 1st Sunday of the Month Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Antioch Baptist Church Rev. 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