Podcast 132 | Faith Friday #1



Hello everyone, and welcome to Faith Friday on Front Porch Politics Podcast. So many of us right now find ourselves in a very strange predicament, something that we’ve actually never experienced before. Part of our world is shut down, but I want to remind you of something. As my wife and our riding yesterday with our dog Tucker. We were talking about this exact subject that sometimes bad things happen and it turns out to be a good thing. Faith Friday #1: God Has A Purpose of Good Even When Bad Happens. Slow down in life with a lesson from The Andy Griffith Show about patience.







Faith Friday #1 | Part 1



Well, as we’re taking the ride, we realize that we’re slowing down in life right now, and we’re taking the time to slow down somewhat. And I have noticed, is I was out working in my yard yesterday and just spending time with my family that all the kids in the neighborhood they were out playing and they were just being kids. This whole Coronavirus deal has slowed our world down, and no doubt we all wanna work, and we want to keep that American engine running.



But at the same time, sometimes we have to put everything back into perspective. Sometimes we have to stop in the old saying goes, Smell the roses. Well, God’s given us this opportunity through the virus to do this. No, I’m not saying that God is making people sick, but I am saying that while this opportunity has been presented to us, use it to something good to build a scenario for this. I want to remind you of one of my favorite TV shows that Andy Griffith Show in The Andy Griffith Show.



Faith Friday #1 | Part 2



There’s an episode where a man named Malcolm Tucker, who is a very wealthy businessman from Charlotte, he’s coming through on a Sunday and he has car trouble and his car breaks down. Well, Mr. Tucker, of course, being in the hurry that he’s in, he wants someone to fix his car and he wants it fixed. Right now, he actually loses patience with the people of Mayberry and with Andy and Barney and others as he can’t get the car serviced. He even refuses to eat some of Aunt Bee’s cooking and eat Sunday dinner.



If I remember correctly, see, that’s the world we have found ourselves in today we are the Malcolm Tuckers of the World. We’re always in a hurry, we’re always on the run. We never take time to just stop and relax and enjoy family time. Which this social distancing Coronavirus situation has caused us to do so. We’re actually having to slow down with our life, and we’re having to put everything back into perspective.



Faith Friday #1 | Part 3



Mr. Tucker is complaining about how this is the 20th century and he should be able to get anything done now. And this is their space generation, which is they were even past that. Now we’re in the generation of social media and cell phones, but let me give you just a little bit of advice. See, Malcolm Tucker actually began to relax when he got out on the front porch and Andy and Barney were singing an old song called Church in the Wildwood. It made Mr. Tucker put everything into perspective.



It made him learn that he was missing those important key things in life. So here’s my advice to you. Take this time and spend it with your family. Turn the cell phone off,