One such chapel service was honoring the ROTC program and its students. Several faculty and others were seated on the stage, and I was sitting toward the middle of the packed auditorium on the aisle seat.
At one point in the short one-hour service, the ROTC Color Guard, carrying the United States flag, began to process down the middle aisle. I immediately stood to my feet, as is the custom, out of respect and honor of our nation's emblem. A girl sitting next to me stood up when I did. I was surprised when no one else in the auditorium stood and thought that surely, at any second, a member of the faculty would issue the instruction for others to stand. The moment passed and no one did.
So, this left me and my cohort in an unintended act of patriotic rebellion, the only ones standing in a crowd of about 1000 during what seemed to be the longest ROTC Color Guard procession in history. Once the Color Guard stopped, my female friend, whom I had not previously met, joined me in sitting back down in our seats.
For a brief moment, I wondered if I had erred somehow. Should I have sat back down when I saw others weren't standing? I certainly didn't intend to make a statement but was doing what was the right thing to do. I quickly concluded that it was the 1000 students and our faculty who had erred. After the service, one of the faculty made a b-line for me and said, "Thanks for standing. We should have. We missed it there."
The righteous man does good even when no one is watching and sometimes when they are. Are you willing to Stand When Others Won't?
"So whoever knows the right thing to do
and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
This is... really good. I think most ppl would agree—I know I do. Sometimes... yeah, I just go after ppl who aren’t even the real problem, but like... I know I should focus on the main issue first... and, y’know, sort the rest out later.
ReplyDeleteThere’s def something wrong with ROCOR... but honestly, it’s kinda nice to see the current problem actually getting handled for once. Makes me not want to kill myself for ONCE...
Glad you are alive!
ReplyDeleteBut you stand for the Zionist child-killers against Orthodox Christians in Palestine.
ReplyDeleteAlso, chapel is not about worshipping State symbols and emblems.
You can´t seem to distinguish real traditionalist and Christian conservative principles from Red Team Boomer Republican programming.
1. "Stand with Zionist child-killers against Orthodox Christians in Palestine..." Well...that's not good, is it? I did not know that. Was it something I said? (antisemite much?) 2. In fact, "chapel" at this particular university wasn't about worship at all. It was more a series of inspirational talks in an auditorium not a church building. 3. "real traditionalist and Christian conservative principles"- You are right! I can't even distinguish how you may define these two. Will you tell me in what scripture or verse these may be found? Perhaps if you will take these comments to the specific blog post with which you have issues, your ad hominems may be more apropos.
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