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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:16:20 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Sunday Musings

Well, am expectly lots of company soon, so this may end with little notice.
This morning at church (Catholic) Dawn wanted to sit on the aisle end of
pew (normally she goes in first).  After seated whispers to me -- you and
mom didn't do right, susposed to genuflect as you enter.  I whisper back -
your mom's not Catholic (despite attending same church for 20 years) and I
have not felt like a Catholic for many years.  Later in service I suprise
Dawn, intentionaly, by responding to the priests greeting "The Lord be
with you" in Latin instead of the expected English "et cum siritu tuo" -
I think that is the Latin for "and also with you".  Long before her time,
the congregation did NOT respond to the priest but, the altar boys spoke
the responses ...all in Latin.  Any point to this....I doubt it.  But as
one dear friend on this list told me privately, teenages do have drastic
mood swings ... last night Dawn was quite upset ...in church this morning
you could not have asked for a sweeter girl.  I guess it's all part of
the journey we are making...and always learning.  Now before someome says,
Hey Don, take this to BELIEF-L, let me say a year ago I was there ...never
made the first post.  Rarely say anything about my religious beliefs and
never tell others what I think they should believe..or not believe.  Just
thinking how Dawn was gently correction me on a little item and how much
more I have been exposed to teh Catholic religion than she...wonder if they
ever let girls be altar "boys"?

Even, though I no longer profess to be a Catholic, that earlier training
never leaves you.  I can recall when my sister was 16, and I was home on
vacation from the Air Force with a brand new car, she begged me to let her
drive it...assured me she had learned to drive.  So off we went and *seemed*
like she drove OK.  Very shortly found out she did not...approaching a
T intersection she is making no attempt to slow down ...apparently
confused between clutch and brake.  Straight ahead was a 30 or 40 foot
drop into a borrow pit.  At the last minute she yanked the wheel left,
but I knew we would never make it.  The car had no seat belts (before its
time) so I threw my body in front of hers to protect her from the obvious
disaster.  Well, the left front of the car caught a mound of dirt and
jerked the car around so the backend hung over the pit.  The front of
the car was demolished ---I had numerous cuts, bruises, etc.  My sister
did not have a scratch - her body had colided with mine and I hit
steering wheel, dash, windshild etc.  Point to all this?  yes, and my
statement that I would give my life for my daughter --- my earlier
Catholic training taught me if there was a choice of a person to die,
the oldest should die, as they have had the most opportunity to claim
the reward at the end of their journey.  Company here.  Got to go. bue.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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