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Chaplain’s Corner……...By Chaplain Bill Kirby Regard Not Your Stuff….. 4 Georgetown Loren Isley was an anthropologist and essayist. He was gifted in seeing deeply into a situation then relaying that experience in such a manner that the reader can share his experience. Here’s one of his vignettes that will explain what I mean. He tells of the day he leaned out of a second story window and saw an old junk dealer riding in a cart filled with discarded clothing, furniture, an assortment of broken down metal objects, and the cart was being drawn by an equally broken down horse. As the decrepit figures passed below him, Isley had a sudden sense of what time means in its passing and he wrote, “It’s all going… no one can hold it, for the junk man is the symbol of all that is going or gone.” As we begin a brand new year, this scene says to us 1) never regard time without having a deep sense of wonder and 2) every moment is a gift from God to you. There is a story of Joseph in the Old Testament. How Joseph ended up in Egypt, finding favor with Pharoah, and became a trusted official. In the providence of God, Joseph came face to face with his betraying brothers. The brothers had come to ask for food from the person they had cast away. With the blessing of Pharoah, Joseph invites all his family to come to Egypt and give no thought to their goods, for the land of Egypt has plenty. But I like the way King James Version says it, “regard not your stuff.” By the time we become adults, we’ve accumulated a lot of stuff. But it’s not only the physical stuff, but the emotional baggage we gather as well. Consider the fact that sometimes we learn wrong things. Maybe we’ve learned to respond to circumstances in a destructive manner. Sometimes we adopt snarling, biting, and snipping as a response. We may become cynical, burdened down, and habit bound. Did you know the good word for us as we begin a new year is, we can choose to “leave our stuff behind.” Let’s plan to drop from our weary bended backs some stuff we can gladly leave behind. It will make the new year a whole lot easier and much more exciting. With God’s help, we can endeavor to leave behind: 1) self pity – you know that feeling we get when we perceive we’ve been treated unfairly by family, our children/step children, etc. 2) False responsibility – that’s responsibility we claim for ourselves that doesn’t belong to us. That’s a huge bundle to leave behind. 3) There’s this thing that Charles Wesley called “cancelled sin.” Sometimes we carry around a burden of sin that has already been forgiven. Everyone has things in their past. Sin left alone is malignant, but once forgiven is benign. Cancelled, benign sin has no destructive power, so leave it behind. Let’s not regard this stuff and drag this bundle into our new year – then we will have a Happy, New Year! VFW Post #3954 purchased TV’s for the residents, pictured are VFW State and Post Officers and Sam’s Club Manager, Felix Leshey. Accepting donations for OVH are Mike and Pat Michalski. Picture on right-VFW State, District and Local Officers, they distributed gifts to all of the OVH Residents. 123rd Air National Guard Unit bringing gifts and playing card bingo with the residents.
Clothing, Gifts and Miscellaneous DAV Auxiliary Unit #63 American Legion Post #180 American Legion Auxiliary Post #694 VFW Post #8287 American Legion Post #367 Williamsburg Twp Emergency Services Assoc. Ladies Auxiliary Military Order of the Purple Heart Unit #3620 American Legion Auxiliary Unit #288 Mr. Ethan Rudd DAV Chapter #71 American Legion Auxiliary Juniors Post #755 DAR, c/o Phyllis Wahl Mike Sidwell Richard Meholick 123 Air National Guard Unit Southwest Regional Medical Center Employees Windchester American Legion Post #179 American Legion, Department of Ohio, Gifts for Yanks Williamsburg Twp Emergency Services Assoc. American Legion Auxiliary Post #288 Georgetown High School FFA and FCCLA Students Sam’s Club, c/o Felix Lashey VFW, Department of Ohio VFW Post #3954 Clermont County Veterans Service Commission Cards and Letters Hamersville Baptist WMU DAR Taliaferro Chapter DAV Auxiliary Unit #63 VFW Post #9772 Lakeshore School 4th Grade Students Ramona Clay William Daughterty, Sr. Cards and Letters Hudson High School Students Incarcerated Veterans of America Russellville Girl Scout Troop DAV Auxiliary Unit 45 Richard H. Buchholz Watkins Middle School Air Force Junior ROTC Brown County K-9 Renegades 4-H Club Entertainment/Parties/Outings American Legion Auxiliary Unit #367 Ohio Elks Association DAV Department of Ohio VFW Post #9094, Hillsboro American Legion Auxiliary Post #180 OVH V.A.C. Sandusky AMVETS Department of Ohio AMVETS Auxiliary Department of Ohio Angie Bridges VFW Post #9622 OCSEA Local 11-AFSCME-AFL-CIO Mr. & Mrs. Bob Derr General Fund AMVETS Post #733 VFW Post #9772 VFW Post #4736 DAV Chapter #15 American Legion Post #256 VFW Post #4027 American Legion Post #633 Nancy C. Dick Ms. Lorna M. Johnson American Veterans Foundation Harold and Linda Graham John Merrill Women Veterans DAV Auxiliary Chapter #63 Bingo Funds and Prizes VFW #9094, Hillsboro American Legion Auxiliary Unit #367 American Legion Auxiliary Post #180 DAV Chapter #9 Nancy Vela Target Store Managers c/o Cheryl Syson-Lau Memorial Donations In Memory Of John W. Fecker Christine Combs In Memory Of Russell Slagle Mark Reed Gregory Tissot Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Slagle Darrell Edward In Memory Of Meredith Nicley Mabel J. Clay Mr. & Mrs. John McCarthy Mr. Charles Wisbey Hillsboro Eastern Star Chapter #441 In Memory Of Tillman Mosley Zakiya Merrill In Memory Of Tom Kiser Fayette Central Elementary School VFW State Commander Chuck Keller VFW 4th District Senior Vice Commander, Gary Perkins Thank you so much VFW Drew Vogel, OVH Administrator accepting a donation from VFW Post 9622
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