Internet Committee
Our obligations as Masons instruct us to work to make ourselves better men. We are repeatedly encouraged to attend lodge, to study and talk with other more knowledgeable Masons, and to work hard to learn more and more just as we were instructed to do in our degrees.
Too often we as Masons overlook the other portion of our degree lecture that says to remember our obligations outside of Masonry, especially our obligation to our families. We attend stated meetings, degrees, practices, fish fries, pancake breakfasts, schools and work days. I just checked my calendar for May and June and realistically I could attend at least one Masonic meeting every night of the week except Sunday. Some of our members do exactly that.
Instead of workaholics, we become Lodgeaholics.
Most of us are married and many of us have children at home during at least a portion of our Masonic careers. How do our families benefit from having an always absent husband or father?
Brother Eric Lentz often said that “What we do inside the lodge doesn’t matter. It’s what we do outside that counts.” Let us all remember to carry the lessons to use our time wisely from inside the lodge out into the larger world, and to balance the obligations we owe to other Masons with the obligations we owe to our families.
Let us work harder to become better husbands and fathers, remember the obligations we owe to our families, and to keep the balance in our lives as we are taught in the first degree. If we do those things, we will become better Masons and better men.
Ricky Stevens PM
Internet Committee Member
