I love books but I can’t imagine being willing to go to jail for them. Shelly Koontz did. I don’t think they have much crime in Iowa. They jailed Shelly because she failed to return a library book. It was due last April. She spent two hours in jail before posting $250 bond. You can buy a lot of books with that. Here in the greater Detroit area our criminals are usually not that well-read. (I just read this post to my daughters and they said that if they lived in Iowa they might have had to do jail time. I gotta’ go. We need to get the library).
Holly pointed out that you can have a legal abortion, but you can go to jail for unpaid library fines. Babies are not protected, but baby seals are. Something is messed up.
Wow! I owe Jail time! That’s a scary thought!
I think one or two of my kids would have gotten 20 years at least. They are all back now but it was hard getting them to take them back. One of my biggest challenge in raising those growing teens.
Thank God He also washing away our sins of being late for the library. PTL
Aren’t you glad to be at the mercy of God, not people. His mercies are new every morning.
Seems like there’s a sermon idea in that story. You see there is a vast huge library that God is compiling with books filled with all the deeds of all peoples from all ages. Good deeds, evil deeds, kind hearted deeds, indifference, and even no particular deeds are all recorded for each of us in books on shelves from which no missplacing can occur. But there is one book, a special and different book to which your journal’s entry can be too late.