It is the last semester of his Senior year,

so the young Christian boy is proud

to see the TEN COMMANDMENTS

hanging in the entry way of his high school…. (At Last!)

The fruition of a battle within an unevenly divided school board…(Finally!)

Made up of Four Evangelical Christians…(At Last!!!),

One Jewish Rabbi….(How did She squeeze in???).

and two agnostic who hid their lack of faith in “The Fundamentals”

until after the election. (Why are they in there????)

The young Senior glances at the engraved wooden tablets every day

as he runs to his New Science Class: “ORIGINS OF LIFE”,

where darwins evolution hypothesis

and the Truths of The Book of GENESIS

are taught as scientific EQUALS…(FINALLY!!!!!)

The school board, victorious again, against the attacks of the

” secular-Godless-culture-encroaching-on-the-souls-of-the-towns-young-people!!!!!”

But today,

it is just after the Easter Sunday service.

The young preacher is standing at the Door,

shaking hands and receiving his much deserved blessings from the congregation.

The young Senior boy approaches the young pastor to ask a few questions

that have been percolating in his brain for a month or so.

“Pastor Jim,” the boy asks,

“Since Creation took Just Seven Days through Gods Creating Words,

like it says in Genesis,

and God blessed and made holy the 7th day,

the last day of HIS creating Work,

for us to worship and rest on

AND

the 4th Commandment “enjoins” us…

(A new word the boy learned in his Government Class

which still teaches the much maligned concept

of the Separation Of Church and State)…

…enjoins us

to Remember the Seventh Day,

what the Jews call “The Sabbath” according to Rabbi Rachel,

to keep it holy, go to church and all that,

even “the stranger within your gate…”

Well, Reverend…

(the line trying to get out of the church now getting a bit longer than usual….

some shuffling of feet and discrete coughs….)

Why do we come to church on Sunday morning,

but it’s OK to have a car wash on Saturday morning

and Bingo in the church recreation hall on Friday night,

after the Sabbath has begun?”

Well,

it could be a life altering moment for that young believer

who has only heard his pastor preach the Easter Sunday sermon

to suddenly hear Pastor Jim stuttering in incomprehensible phrases

about some early church synods or another, doing something or another….

and then conclude by saying,

“Well, Tommy, maybe you’re too young to understand all this, and we don’t really have the time now…

(The damn line pushing harder to escape….)

But the boy is bright and he’s thinking hard,

carefully, and he has a BIG DAY ahead of him

as he jogs away from the stammering minister

who’s shaking the head deacons hand….

everyone trying to hurry home and change from their Easter Finery

to jeans and sweatshirts, grab some sandwiches and rush off to the final game

of the State Championship Series of the High School Baseball League,

the league officials hoping they’d get a bigger crowd if the Final Game was played

after Easter Services, merely postponing everyones big dinner

to after the big game…

There might even be a scout or two sitting in the stands…

.For no doubt, the towns ACE pitcher,

Thomas Smith

will be pitching

and he’s got an amazing inside curve ball

everyone’s bragging about…

As well as some questions that no-one wants to answer.