Opinion

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

Several weeks ago, we read about Jesus in the wilderness, where he faced hungers and desires. Satan came to suggest he could fulfill those needs in ways other than God had planned. But through Christ's victory, we learn ways to conquer our own temptations.

There are many desires, too numerous to categorize. Often discontentment comes from trying to fulfill our wants in our own way. But I propose that all legitimate desires can be satisfied by God, if we allow Him to supply our needs according to the way He created us.

St. Augustine, who lived 300 years after Christ, spent his early life searching for fulfillment, satisfaction, and happiness in all the wrong places. In his 30s, he found the Love of God while teaching at the University of Milan and discovered the answer to his search. He learned that God loved him, and that he loved God. Later he wrote a book called Confessions, in which he expounded on his journey. He announced to God the major theme of his work in the first paragraph, “You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I ordered the sofa cover as soon as we adopted our new cat, Felix.

The sofa in the little apartment my husband, Peter, and I rent in Mexico has seen better days, but we didn’t want to be responsible for ushering it into an early retirement due to cat scratches. So I bought a beautiful turquoise handloomed bedspread from a woman across the street to use as a throw. And the job would have been done right then and there if I’d kept my mouth shut.

Instead, I asked the woman if she knew anyone who could hem the cover to the appropriate size, and she said she had just the man for me. Her husband told me to follow him down the street, and we stopped at a tiny grocery store and met Estefan.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

When Democrat Chuck Schumer decided to dismiss the impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas without a trial, he continued to erode the fabric of the republic.

The vote against Mayorkas in the House was partisan, with all Republicans voting to impeach and all Democrats voting against impeachment.

That’s the way politics work.

Once sent over to the Senate, a trial is expected and has always occurred until now. It seems rewriting precedence has been the theme of the past three years, from charging a previous president for criminal behavior to dismantling tradition and precedent in Congress.

GUEST COLUMN, Greg Doering, Kansas Farm Bureau

I couldn’t help but think of the Folger’s coffee cans around my grandparent’s house when I saw “Planet vs. Plastics,” the slogan for Earth Day this year. There was always a can in the kitchen near the percolator ready to brew a fresh pot. Once emptied, the cans were repurposed in the basement, garage and barn for a whole host of other purposes, ranging from simple storage to cleaning paint brushes. On the Fourth of July, my cousins and I would scrounge up a can that hadn’t found a use yet and proceed to use firecrackers to launch it like a missile.

Most of those cans still serve a purpose, holding an assortment of washers in the garage or fence clips in the barn, but long ago Folger’s ditched the cans for plastic containers. The stated goal at the time was to provide fresher ground coffee, but I also imagine there was some cost savings as well. Either way, the utility of an empty container didn’t change much. But I doubt we’d have much success using fireworks with the modern version.