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?
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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!
I fold all people in a special way.
Here here!! :0)
I used to work at Abercrombie... so I'm a pretty good folder.
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! :>)
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