*Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane 
  Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" 
( regarding the attacks on Sept. 11 ). 
  
  Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said "I 
  believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've 
  been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and 
  to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has 
  calmly backed out. How can we expect God 
  to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us 
  alone?" 
  
  In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I 
  think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body 
  found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said 
  OK. 
  
  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school... the Bible 
  says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as 
  yourself. And we said OK. 
  
  Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they 
  misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might 
  damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an 
  expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK. 
  
  Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our 
  children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty 
  member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we 
  don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued (there's a 
  big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking, 
  humiliating, kicking, etc.). And we said OK. 
  
  Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and 
  they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said OK. 
  
  Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're 
  going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want so they 
  can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents 
  they got them at school. And we said OK. 
  
  Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do 
  in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn't 
  matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as 
  I have a job and the economy is good. 
  
  Then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude women and call 
  it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body. 
  And we said OK. 
  
  And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and 
  published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them 
  available on the Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to free speech. 
  
  Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that 
  promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let's record music that 
  encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it's 
  just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously 
  anyway, so go right ahead. 
  
  Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they 
  don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill 
  strangers, their classmates, and themselves. 
  
  Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it 
  out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW." 
  
  Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the 
  world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but 
  question what the Bible says. 
  
  Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like 
  wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people 
  think twice about sharing. 
  
  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through 
  cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and 
  workplace. 
  
  Are you laughing? 
  
  Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your 
  address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they WILL 
  think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what 
  other people think of us than what God thinks of us. 
  
  Pass it on if you think it has merit.