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Just our Opinion

Talking trash

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Keeping Ennis Beautiful was a theme launched as a reminder to take pride in our home town, collectively and individually. As part of that effort, the City of Ennis has launched a new containerized, solid waste program.

Benefits of belonging

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Ennis has had a Chamber of Commerce for decades, and the reasons are plenteous. After all, businesses hold on to money judiciously, especially at the outset. In fact, who wants to shell out bucks for a membership that doesn’t figure to help your business.

Our city has been blessed to have a vibrant Chamber for years, and residents have grown to trust its leadership.

Leaders leading

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A doff of the hat to the leadership of Ellis County. Their resolution this week counters the directives pouring in from Washington D.C. and most of the media. It was timely and necessary.

Mandating a controversial vaccine for a virus that has affected so few in this country, especially when compared to other sicknesses, is a major over-reach of power. Its guarantee is as strong as the walls of a sand castle at high tide.

Rivalry renewed

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Bragging rights between friendly rivals, Ennis and Waxahachie, continued on Friday night. While things have been nasty for years, inhabitants of the two towns often root for one another as long as the opponent isn’t each other.

Biscuits and jam

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Have you ever noticed how often those in places of leadership smile? Or how often they laugh?

Those are critical elements that reflect well on some, and is unflattering to others.

Ennis has its share of high-substance, high character leaders. To get a different, sometimes more accurate view of the depth of their image, and more important, the reality of the impact they make, check their chuckle.

A respite to recharge

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It has been a heightened season of uncommon happenings on the planet, what with a hurricane striking the United States’ northeast, a reported sighting of Loch Ness, the announcement of mac-and-cheese ice cream, the government releasing details about 143 UFO’s that defy explanation, and a lobster diver who was swallowed by a humpback whale near Cape Cod – before being spat out a minute later.

No, these aren’t verses from one of the Bible’s prophetic books, though it makes you think.

News and the Twilight Zone

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Watching a tape of anything on fast-forward can be painful for the eyes, especially if one is actually trying to make sense of the footage, the movie or ball game. The same effect is taking place in the American world these days.

Like an old record played at 78 rpm’s, it is unnerving in a hurry. Should it continue for just a few minutes, someone in the room will mercifully grab the disc and hurl it into the fireplace.

So long to summer

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Surely you have noticed that sun downs are earlier than they were a month ago. Yes, in fact, the longest day of sunlight in Dallas occurred on Sunday, June 20, at 10:32 p.m.

While we were being nice to dads and father figures, few noticed the clock difference. Compared to the December Solstice, June 20 – the Summer Solstice, was 4 hours and 19 minutes longer than the one six months ago.

Since Big D battles Houston for bragging rights, it should be known that Dallas’ 14 hours and 19 minutes of light was, in fact, more than H-Town’s 14:03. Take that, Rocket Town.

EISD is casting a vision

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When no one casts a vision, people perish. The oft-quoted passage from Proverbs 29:18 provides great hope for spiritual and leadership direction. Theologians view the verse as saying, “Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off constraint.”

Truth from the scripture is simple, yet profound. When people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble over themselves, says The Message translation. It then adds, if they attend to what is revealed, they are blessed.

No one is perfect

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If we have learned one thing in recent years, it is that no one is perfect, not even remotely close. Name someone highly respected, whose life was exemplary of great deeds and odds are that modern day critics will render them blasphemous.

It is a sure-fire way to re-write history, though it comes with the values of today taking precedence over the standards of prior ages. There are merits to be found in this process, but they will likely be undone every 50 or 100 years when truths and values change.