This is the Holiday Season, which in some odd way led me to ponder about certain days. Bit chilly on the porch but I can’t seem to stay in to much, got to get a touch of that fresh air to remind me I got a few days left in these old bones. The difference between a holiday and a day… Now I wasn’t to sure but to me a holiday is a break, a day off, sometimes as a means of celebrating some special occasion, our Government is awash with Holidays. There are about nine of these government celebrations each year. What got me onto this is that today Thursday, Dec 7…is Pearl Harbor Day… most of these special days are not about celebrating but about Remembrance… and each year they seem to fade away just a little bit more. On that day…over 2,300 Americans were killed and the U.S.S Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S Oklahoma capsized. As time passes the number that remember that day becomes less and less.  Memorial Day began shortly after the Civil War to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. This is one of many that are tagged as such and such day… As I have written there are many others. Right now at this moment I am thinking about The Lord’s Day… and that other day, The Day Of The lord. Now the “The Lord’s Day” is Sunday. The term Lord’s day is used only once in Scripture.

Revelation 1:10

 “ I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet”

Now I am not going to go any further with this day thing but I will list another day for your consideration. The Day of The Lord… This takes us on a bit of a different direction. It is also known as a Day of Wrath. The final judgement written of in Revelation.

Today is Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 1941… As I ponder here on the porch I do wonder how much longer this and other days that mark a place in the history of our nation and its people will be remembered. We are the product of our past, we shape or should shape our future from lessons learned and that seems to be fading fast. But I always come back to this… The God I serve is a constant and that is where I place my hope.

jk