It had often seemed to him, watching other stockmen as well as himself, that the economy of the whole ranching industry was built around a coffee pot.”
–Elmer Kelton (The Time It Never Rained)
Pard, here yuh go, saw yuh ridin’ up so I got yur cup out. Poured it full jist as yuh walked in. Watch it, it’s hot. That’s it, blow on it some, take a swaller, an’ yu’ll find it’ll tickle yur gizzard.
Lot’s of things brewin’ besides coffee. Things in my mind, things happenin’ in this country an’ over the ocean. Yuh know Pard, the world’s in a mess, and I ain’t no prophet nor philosophyer, but I can tell yuh the reason. They forsook the Word of the Lord, they didn’t hearken to the salvation presented by Jesus. As in the days of Noah…that’s what we’re seein’ now. Folks doin’ their own thing, followin’ their own lusts and desires. Strange things a-happenin’.
Pard, I was readin’ jist the other day from that ol’ preacher-man Tozer. Now, I’m not quoting straight, so this is Tozer paraphrased by yur’s truly. He was a-sayin’ because we have ignored and actually mocked the laws of God, His moral decrees, that we have brought pollution to the race–that’s the human race. People have done compromised God’s Word so much and justified it by rationalizin’ with the culture that we are fully messed up. Why, Pard, they have pride month, pride day, drag queens readin’ in school library session, and that among the educated folk; them folk that’s supposed to be smart. See, Pard, it didn’t start with cinos; it started with the wise guys in the colleges and the smart-alec bums we know as bureaucrats, and shamefully, the white-sepluchered preachers that don’t preach the Word, but their own opinion. See, their hearts are darkened. They walk hand-in-hand with the devil hisownself. Ol’ Tozer said, by doing this, we glorifyin’ somethin’ that will kill us in time.
Whoooeee, it’n that don’t wake yuh up! When people who say they are Christian don’t change their habits, lifestyle and attitude, well, that’s worse’n drinkin’ watered-down coffee. How will people know who a Christian is an’ what he stands for if’n he don’t walk tall and straight? Sorry, Pard, don’t mean to get all riled, but sometimes when I look at what’s goin’ on, well, it jist jerks my jaw.
I knows yuh have things to do, an’ need to be on yur way, but there’s still coffee in the pot. Yuh go ahead an’ pour another cup whilst I bring up somethin’ else. I saw one of them there memes the other day that made me grit my teeth. It went like this, due to unfortunate circumstances, I’m awake. Now Pard, that is downright sinful–laziness is somethin’ the good Lord despises. Why, if’n I’m not mistaken, the first thing the Lord told Adam was to get to work. He was to be the chief gardener of Eden. Yet, look today at our welfare rolls, the young how they bounce from one job to another, how they want top pay without payin’ their jist dues. Pard, no wonder we’re in a mess. Get up, I tell them, make yur bed, drink yur coffee, throw some bacon on a biscuit an’ get on out to work!
Well, that’s enough for this Saturday. Yuh be havin’ a good weekend. Meet with the saints tomorrow, worship the Lord, honor the Sabbath the best yuh can. Hey, an’ don’t be ridin’ off to Sunday School without checkin’ yur cinch.
Vaya con Dios.