You were able to clean yourself up nicely and get to the wedding and back in time to celebrate the birthday with Dad. Hooray for you. You cleaned up very prettily with your sister. I especially loved the shiny shoes. You didn't even have to shine them yourself.
I had occasion on the 4th of July to watch Long Gray Line with Tyrone Power. It was amazing how the men at West Point make shiny shoes an integral part of life. Are you in? Your shoes are shined, if you are and they are not if you're not.
It's not just ostracisation, it is a symbol of the training that they have experienced. Their senses of respect and respecting have been buffed and shined to reflect the training of the "same master". In their case it is America that they reflect. A father, in the patriotic sense has given them a voice of leveling and a place of rank that identifies them on the ladder of service. No one is number one in that ranking, but they subject their respect and respectability to the same standard. They look at things like cords and stars and know what that has meant in the lives of the one wearing them. They condition their voices to rise and fall according to the same standard of respect and respectability. Insubordination is tasted on the tongue, as it were, at its first impulse. That is a unity that God has blessed over these 200+ years of attempted democracy and in as much as it is "under God", we can expect that it will continue to be blessed. As soon as we place our standard as the god of our submission, we are cursed.
That seems to be what sent the Demons to hell. The shine of the glory of respect can become blinding in its beauty.
I wanted to say to you in your shining beauty, yesterday,"let not your cosmetic be..." But I caught myself, lest that be the thing to keep you from being yourself in the enjoyment of your good time. Today, I can say it, "Shine the shoes, but keep the heart humble!"
You were able to clean yourself up nicely and get to the wedding and back in time to celebrate the birthday with Dad. Hooray for you. You cleaned up very prettily with your sister. I especially loved the shiny shoes. You didn't even have to shine them yourself.I had occasion on the 4th of July to watch Long Gray Line with Tyrone Power. It was amazing how the men at West Point make shiny shoes an integral part of life. Are you in? Your shoes are shined, if you are and they are not if you're not.It's not just ostracisation, it is a symbol of the training that they have experienced. Their senses of respect and respecting have been buffed and shined to reflect the training of the "same master". In their case it is America that they reflect. A father, in the patriotic sense has given them a voice of leveling and a place of rank that identifies them on the ladder of service. No one is number one in that ranking, but they subject their respect and respectability to the same standard. They look at things like cords and stars and know what that has meant in the lives of the one wearing them. They condition their voices to rise and fall according to the same standard of respect and respectability. Insubordination is tasted on the tongue, as it were, at its first impulse. That is a unity that God has blessed over these 200+ years of attempted democracy and in as much as it is "under God", we can expect that it will continue to be blessed. As soon as we place our standard as the god of our submission, we are cursed. 
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