PARTY LINES
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What is a party? When I was a child, the word "party" for me meant a celebration involving a cake and lots of free food and drinks. Most of us equated it that way from our earliest memories I think, because of birthday parties.
As I got older the word got expanded to be ..dinner party, slumber party, Tupperware party, Christmas party, going away party, graduation party and dance party. Pretty soon any excuse will do , it's just a fun reason to gather and socialise and have refreshments.
When I came into my TEENAGE years though......lol...it meant something altogether different. No longer did there have to be any specific occasion or theme to it, and pretty much all food and and cake disappeared from the partisan landscape.
There were still beverages available however, along with other party favors that allowed you to be a different person upon leaving, than when you arrived.
One of the big attractions of parties in those days for me I have to say, was the prospect of meeting someone of the opposite gender there...and soon going to "parties" was my favorite thing in life.
Those of you my age probably remember the "Three Dog Night" song called "Mama Told Me Not To Come", and it's lyric that said "This is the craziest party there could EVAH be...don't turn on the lights cuz I don't wanna see.."
The guy saw things he never saw before...people passed out, all kinds of smoke and strange smells choking him....and his mama warned him that , "that aint the way to have fun son"..
It was true...often the party's premises was so smokey that the pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game I used to play at parties as a kid, would not have required a blindfold.
A new term was coined then. "Partying". And sometimes a person was known as a "party animal"
I can still remember even then, an inner feeling I'd begin to get; that I was chasing something elusive...I would always build up the prospect of an upcoming party in my mind, and they never met the expectation.
I became a born again Christian very young, so I can only guess how that road I was on would have played itself out, but I'm grieved in my spirit when I see adults still living that way 40 years later. it just seems so sad and empty.
Don't people just really wonder to themselves sometimes if there's more to life than just living for the next high?
I still like parties by the way. But I'm back to blowing out candles and drinking virgin punch.
In the Bible sometimes parties would last a whole week!. Celebrations can be good wholesome, joyous events, and there's a party coming up soon that I'm particularly geeked to attend, and this one surely will not fall short of any expectations. It's the Marriage supper of the Lamb.
You have to be specially invited personally by it's Host. But if you're fortunate enough to be one of the attendees, you'll be treated to a never ending feast. Good conversation with amazing famous people, and nothing but an unending feeling of love surrounding you there.
God described it for us , and wants desperately for us all to attend . it's on Him and free for all who put their trust in Jesus Christ and turn their life over to Him.
Hope to see you there.
.
What is a party? When I was a child, the word "party" for me meant a celebration involving a cake and lots of free food and drinks. Most of us equated it that way from our earliest memories I think, because of birthday parties.
As I got older the word got expanded to be ..dinner party, slumber party, Tupperware party, Christmas party, going away party, graduation party and dance party. Pretty soon any excuse will do , it's just a fun reason to gather and socialise and have refreshments.
When I came into my TEENAGE years though......lol...it meant something altogether different. No longer did there have to be any specific occasion or theme to it, and pretty much all food and and cake disappeared from the partisan landscape.
There were still beverages available however, along with other party favors that allowed you to be a different person upon leaving, than when you arrived.
One of the big attractions of parties in those days for me I have to say, was the prospect of meeting someone of the opposite gender there...and soon going to "parties" was my favorite thing in life.
Those of you my age probably remember the "Three Dog Night" song called "Mama Told Me Not To Come", and it's lyric that said "This is the craziest party there could EVAH be...don't turn on the lights cuz I don't wanna see.."
The guy saw things he never saw before...people passed out, all kinds of smoke and strange smells choking him....and his mama warned him that , "that aint the way to have fun son"..
It was true...often the party's premises was so smokey that the pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game I used to play at parties as a kid, would not have required a blindfold.
A new term was coined then. "Partying". And sometimes a person was known as a "party animal"
I can still remember even then, an inner feeling I'd begin to get; that I was chasing something elusive...I would always build up the prospect of an upcoming party in my mind, and they never met the expectation.
I became a born again Christian very young, so I can only guess how that road I was on would have played itself out, but I'm grieved in my spirit when I see adults still living that way 40 years later. it just seems so sad and empty.
Don't people just really wonder to themselves sometimes if there's more to life than just living for the next high?
I still like parties by the way. But I'm back to blowing out candles and drinking virgin punch.
In the Bible sometimes parties would last a whole week!. Celebrations can be good wholesome, joyous events, and there's a party coming up soon that I'm particularly geeked to attend, and this one surely will not fall short of any expectations. It's the Marriage supper of the Lamb.
You have to be specially invited personally by it's Host. But if you're fortunate enough to be one of the attendees, you'll be treated to a never ending feast. Good conversation with amazing famous people, and nothing but an unending feeling of love surrounding you there.
God described it for us , and wants desperately for us all to attend . it's on Him and free for all who put their trust in Jesus Christ and turn their life over to Him.
Hope to see you there.
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posted by Shiloh | August 05, 2010
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