Thursday, September 13, 2007

r-e-s-p-e-c-t

there's something else i noticed from the car line at school.

this week my daughter is on "flag duty" - in charge of taking down the flag after school. i watched her do it, and was reminded of all the rules she told me about it. things like never letting it touch the ground, not rolling into a ball but folding it a special way, and always treating it with respect. as i watched her and a friend carefully follow all those rules, it struck me that we treat our flag with a lot more thought and care than we treat the people it represents. what would our neighborhoods & cities, even our country, look like, if we took treating people as seriously as we took raising & lowering our flag?

5 comments:

Sarah said...

This is awesome. I guess it helps that the flag is pretty safe--few accounts of the flag as an object being hurtful or triggering our insecurities. Im fighting temptations to write an essay here. Darn you and your deep thought provocation!

Sabrina said...

I fold all people in a special way.

Annie said...

Here here!! :0)

Anonymous said...

I used to work at Abercrombie... so I'm a pretty good folder.

Benji Kelley said...

Yea - that is a great thought, Rachel. I think God would be far more concerned with the way in which we treat people. Jesus often got fed up with those who put religious or political duty/homage above people.

Here's to a full blooded American and Canadian seeing eye to eye over God's Children being far more important than an American flag! :>)