{"id":13319,"date":"2021-04-22T15:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:31:36","slug":"i-like-drumsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=13319","title":{"rendered":"I Like Drumsticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I always did like drumsticks. I just can&#8217;t get along without eating one every 20 or 30 minutes. In fact, I like them so well that I eat one every morning before breakfast and another while I am dressing. I depend on them so much that I can&#8217;t sleep at night if I don&#8217;t have my bedtime drumstick. If I have to do without my drumsticks for too long at a time, everything seems to go wrong. I get very nervous, and my family seems to \u201ckeep their distance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I wouldn&#8217;t think of leaving for work without a good supply of drumsticks! I keep a special dish on my desk where I put the bones I polish off during the day. When I come home in the afternoon, I enjoy eating a drumstick while I relax and look at the paper. I have grown accustomed to hearing my wife complain about the crumbs around my chair and the grease spots on my clothes and the furniture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">When I go to worship, I always take a pocketful of drumsticks. It&#8217;s really a task to tear myself away from the other fellows at Bible class time. After my class, 1 can hardly wait to get outside to have another drumstick (in fact, sometimes I take a bite before I get outside the door). Some ill-mannered person told me once that I should not throw the bones down on the ground, nor the empty sack either. Imagine such gall! Every once in a while, as I enter the building for worship, somebody brushes my coat off and looks at me like my face was greasy or something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I have never bothered to figure up how much I spend on drumsticks a week. I suppose at .40 a pound, maybe $5.00 per week might be a reasonable guess and that&#8217;s only a little more than $20.00 a month. How much do I give to the Lord per week? What business is that of yours? And besides, that doesn&#8217;t have any connection with my habit anyway. Eating drumsticks is really a very harmless habit and you can&#8217;t show me where the Bible condemns it. (No, I don&#8217;t really have such a craving for drumsticks, but if I did, how long would you put up with me?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in the May 30, 1972, edition of <em>Sentinel<\/em>, weekly bulletin of the Sunset Church of Christ, Carlsbad, New Mexico, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] I always did like drumsticks. I just can&#8217;t get along without eating one every 20 or 30 minutes. 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