Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on the
Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God
let something like this happen?" And Anne Graham gave
an extremely profound and insightful response. She said:
"I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just
as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get
out of our schools, to get out of our government and
to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman that
He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out.
How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His
protection if we demand that He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school
shootings, etc. Let's see, I think it started when Madeline
Murray O'Hare ( she was murdered ) complained she
didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in
school...the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou
shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.
And we said, OK.

Then, Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our
children when they misbehave because their little
personalities would be warped and we might damage
their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide)
And we said, an expert should know what he's talking
about so we said OK.

Then, someone said teachers and principals better not
discipline our children when they misbehave. And the
school administrators said no faculty member in this
school better touch a student when they misbehave
because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely
don't want to be sued (There's big difference between
disciplining and touching, beating, smacking, humiliating,
kicking, etc.) And we said, OK.

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have
abortions if they want, and they won't even have to
tell their parents. And we said, OK.

Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't
matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.
And agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me
what anyone, including the President, does in private as
long as I have a job and the economy is good.

And then someone said let's print magazines with pictures
of nude people and call it wholesome, down-to-earth
appreciation for the beauty of the body. And we said, OK.

And then someone else took that appreciation a step
further and published pictures of nude children and
then stepped further still by making them available on
the internet. And we said OK, they're entitled
to their free speech.

And then the entertainment industry said, let's make
TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence,
and illicit sex. And let's record music that encourages
rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes.
And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse
effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go
right ahead.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no
conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and
why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their
classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough,
we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to
do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

"Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl killed
in her classroom?" Sincerely, Concerned Student

AND THE REPLY....

"Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in schools".
Sincerely, God.

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and
then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how
we believe what the newspapers say, but question what
the Bible says.

Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they
do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything
righteous.

Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still
follow Satan who, by the way, also "believes" in God.

Funny how we are quick to judge but not to be judged.

Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through
e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you
start sending messages regarding the Lord, people
think twice about sharing.

Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass
freely through cyberspace, but the public discussion
of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on
Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the
week.

Funny how I can be more worried about what other people
think of me than what God thinks of me.  Are you
thinking?