Family Theater

If you only listen to one show this weekend then let it be the Family Theater episode "Wally" starring Alan Reed, which will be live on RUSC on Sunday, 27th September.

This is a beautiful heartwarming story of the kindness and integrity of human nature.

It demonstrates that you can never know what goes on in a person's life until you take the time to know that person.

Some people today think that Old-Time-Radio is not relevant because the shows display cultural sensitivities to language and themes not compatible with today's generations. This may be true in some show's stories but I say, in most part what is important to a person then and now, recurs throughout the generations.

Wally is a fabulous story, which benefits even more so with Bing Crosby's homily at the start and end of the story.

Bing finishes the show with this, much of which, whatever your religious leanings, is pretty relevant today - some sixty plus years hence:

"The Greatness of America and the future of our nation depends on all of us. America's destiny rests in the hands of every individual regardless of race or creed, and in every town and city throughout the nation.

During recent years, major crime has been on the up-swing. At the end of the last war aged seventeen led all the other age groups in arrests for serious crimes. More and more children it seems were being led towards crimes as parents throw away responsibility.

Selfishness is too often the keynote of the day, materialism the inspiration for living. God in many instances is not accepted in the home and concepts of morality have been relegated to the junkie it seems.

I wonder how a nation can exist devoid of all religious thought and action. Can we have internal peace without morality. Can we build homes without God, have worthy parents who don't know and don't practice his teachings. The key to these problems and to life itself is God and he is man's first need in his final goal.

Our nation is sadly in need of a rebirth to the simple life; a return to the days when God was a part of each household and families arose each morning with a prayer on their lips. And they ended the day gathered together to place themselves in his care.

If there's a hope for the future of America, if there's to be peace and happiness in our homes, then we as a nation have got to return to God and to the practice of daily family prayer.

Families that pray together, stay together."

Now tell me that some of that doesn't resonate true today.

Happy listening my friends,