Chaplain's Corner
Chaplain Tom Lavender

During our last work day I did some thinking. We cleaned up graves for Confederate soldiers, some Civilians and some Blacks. I am sure there were some good people there as well as some not so good. Some are remembered and some are probably forgotten.

Where they are, we will be also one day. Will we be remembered or forgotten? It is the things that we do today that will be remembered tomorrow. What are we doing today that will insure us being remembered tomorrow? We, as SCV members are striving to make sure that our ancestors are remembered, in so doing we are laying the groundwork that we may be also remembered. Are we doing our upmost to remember them and to teach our decendents that Heritage is a monument that constantly requires building and maintenance?

Couldn't we all pitch in and do more for this Cause we are sworn to support? It is our Heritage that will be remembered or forgotten. The burden in on our sholders, our ancestors passed it on to us, we have to carry it till we are gone and our decendents take it and hopefully, press on. Lets all get into step and march on with pride and devotion to duty.

Tom Lavender
Chaplin 2022

 

Why do we toss spilled salt over our shoulders?

      To catch the devil.
     Spilling salt has been considered bad luck ever since Lot's hapless wife disobeyed God's command by looking back on Sodom and Gomorrah as it was destroyed and, as a punishment, was turned into a pillar of salt. As a result, salt came to be regarded as the symbol of temptation, and spilling it was viewed as a means of summoning the ultimate tempter, the devil.
     Once it was spilled and the devil was called, what was one to do? Simple. Throw a pinch of salt over one's left shoulder and hope it hit the devil in the eye, blinding him while the salt was cleaned up.
     The left shoulder had no significance other than the fact that most people were right-handed.