BUTTON, BUTTON

                                                   BUTTON, BUTTON

                        Many years ago, the following notice
                        appeared in the Sunday program of the 
                        Scotch Presbyterian Church, Scotland...

                        "Will those of you who have been putting
                        buttons in the collection basket, kindly put
                        in your own buttons, and not those from the 
                        church upholstery."

                        While it is true that much honest criticism
                        could be aimed at our religious institutions,
                        much criticism could also be avoided,  if perhaps,
                        we who occupy the pews were to pray
                        more positively, praise more expectantly, give thanks,
                        more abundantly, and glorify God for all the blessings,
                        yet to come, and for those blessings which our churches
                        actually provide.
                                                      
                           Then, perhaps we could soon see the day when 
                        we might burst our spiritual buttons with holy
                        love and sacrificial service.
                        Ah, button button, who's got the button?  
                        Why, we have, of course.
                       
                       (First published on November 15, 2012.
                       Revisions made on November 15, 2020)
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