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Keeping the Faith
Last
Monday night I attended our Boy Scout troop meeting as I do on most Monday
nights. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the flag, and then some
announcements. Then the Scouts got into some advancement work, and followed
that with an outside game. Finally, we had a Scoutmaster's Minute and closed
with the Boy Scout Oath and Law.
As we left the meeting last Monday night, we had no idea what the week would
bring. Early Tuesday morning we heard about the first plane to hit the World
Trade Center. Things went downhill from there. During the week the news media
reported: huge loss of life, very few survivors, terrorists at work, politicians
calling for retaliation and war, and preachers calling us to return to God.
It was a depressing week until Saturday, when I reported to Flat Rock Baptist
Church near Liberty to help Eagle Scout candidate, Alex Hooper, with his
Eagle project. There, about 20 Scouts, adult leaders, and volunteers worked
most of the day constructing a children's playground for the church.
There was a wonderful sense of God's love in the service that these were
giving for someone else. This sense of teamwork and dedication of our Scouts
and leaders did more to lift my faith and hope than anything else this week.
Romans 12:19 reads, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
Lord."
As for me, I will fly my flag, pray for my enemies, and leave the retaliation
up to the Lord. But when we return to our Scout meeting tonight the following
words may have a lot more meaning that they did last week: "On my honor,
I pledge to do my Duty to God, and my Country..."
"Doc" Rabon
Boy Scout Troop 15
Mauldin, South Carolina
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