Friday Evenings P.S.

After I wrote the previous post I went downstairs and put in a DVD from the first season of Gomer Pyle. It was such a good story. The Colonel's daughter was coming home from college for a break and there was a dance at the base. He needed an escort for her and Gomer was chosen. He ended up singing a song with the guitar at the end. Jim Nabors has such a great voice.

I have to confess that after it ended I found myself saying, "Why can't they make stuff like that anymore?!" It was so pure and innocent and clean and funny and had good lessons and I could go on and on.

I just remembered more of why I loved Friday Evenings growing up.

I love that exchange in LORD of the Rings between Froto and Sam. I have mentioned it before where Froto asks Sam what they are risking their lives for. Froto answers, " That there is a little good left in the world and it worth fighting for." They talk about things being so out of sorts that how could it possibly go back to the way it was before it got all messed up. I remember finishing that movie and feeling hope. I know we can never return to the 1950's or early 60's. As C.S. Lewis wrote, "Reality does not repeat." My heart longs for a return to the morality we had in our nation, for the strength that came from families, for children to respect their elders, for things along this line.