When you mentioned a certain cemetery in a recent post, I was reminded of this story which my husband read to me. This is a quote from a book by John MacArthur, with the point being that God has broken down the walls to allow all types of people to come to Himself.

"Another story from World War II is that of a group of American soldiers who lost their buddy in battle. They carried his body to the only cemetery in the area, which happened to be Catholic. When the priest was told that the dead man was not Catholic he said, 'I am sorry, but he cannot be buried here.' The disheartened and discouraged soldiers decided to do what they thought was next best, and during the night they buried their comrade just outside the cemetery fence. They returned the next morning to pay their last respects, but they could not find a grave outside the fence. When they told the priest of their quandary, he said, 'The first part of the night I stayed awake sorry for what I told you. And the second part of the night I spent moving the fence.'"

-- Cathy N. (eastern Ontario) (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), April 21, 2002

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Cathy, I loved it, Thanks for posting the story, Sometimes I wonder how a nation , who's motto on coins is in God We Trust, has got to where we are today. I saw in paper today where some of the southern states are passing bills, that will put the ten commandments back in school's. How one little women from texas could take prayer out of school, is beyond me. Madam Murray Ohare. Was it 1962, The schools in the big citys are scarey. I have a great grandaughter who I help pay for private christian school. But can only be afforded if all the family pitches in. Its 350 a month in grade school, and 400 for high school, And in spring, in order to save your place for the comeing year they want a 200 dollar holding or registration fee. But my great grandaughter is doing so well there, we will do our best to keep up the payments. I takes three familys. Oh my, I quess I am on my soap box again. Have a great day Cathy, and I wish I had some of your cool weather,

-- Irene texas (tkorsborn@cs.com), April 21, 2002.

Irene, since moving out of Texas three years ago, I have been enjoying the cooler, northern climate, especially since I am now into another summer pregnancy. The last pregnancy was when, in Texas, we had 80 days straight of 100+ temps! I spent most of my time sitting in front of the AC sucking on ice.

Moving from Texas, I also got away from hearing about issues like the one you mentioned about the Ten Commandments coming back to the schools. I miss that refreshing type of information. We don't get that up here in Canada, where everyone is so "tolerant" of others' opinions, that they were afraid to pray during the public 9/11 memorial service, for fear of offending someone!

I am told that in our area history is not much taught in the public schools, so much so that I had a very difficult time finding Canadian history texts for our homeschool. Bible reading and prayer are definitely out. There are not any really good Christian schools in the area, and I am told by a teacher that the Catholic schools are as bad as the public schools.

-- Cathy N. (eastern Ontario) (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), April 21, 2002.

Alabama is the state where we are trying to put prayer back in the public schools..the sentiment right now here is that we really do not care what the rest of the country thinks of it.The USA had prayer in the schools for a few hundred years without any church taking over the government.Folks who do not care for the idea have many other countries in which to live. The Alabama state legislature is under tremendous pressure from the citizens to act upon the issue.. I don't think any one of them will ever be elected dogcatcher if they vote against it. I have to say that one of the many things I admire about the Deep South is its' collective refusal to cave in to things which go against the grain of tradition. Recently in an area around Birmingham, there were two young girls murdered in separate incidents within a single week..senseless crimes...the usual modern garbage pail variety..well, a bunch of folks got together and decided to meet at area schools for prayer every week..public prayer at public schools by concerned parents and neighbors..the message was "We are here to tell satan he is not welcome anymore in our schools"....my my..what will the atheists make of this? Another woman said, "Hey! This dime says "In God we trust", so my dimes pay for this school, if I want to trust God and toss the devil out, ain't nobody going to tell me I can't do so." If I could have jumped up and down and yelled "you go sister" I sure would have. I am proud to live here at this time in this place. God bless.

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), April 21, 2002.