You know those laws they say are still on the books but make no sense at all?  It is illegal to fly your cow in a hot air balloon in one state.  In another it is illegal to leave your alligator tied outside of a business.  How about the one in Washington State that says it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length?

A friend called to tell me of these laws after she heard them being discussed on the radio and we had quite a laugh over these and others but it does give me cause to wonder.  There had to be a reason someone felt the necessity to enact these laws and it made me want to know the story behind them.  Wouldn’t you just love to know the story behind the law about the cow and the hot air balloon?

Maybe it is the prodigal spirit in me that makes me ask “why” but I found myself asking “why” on these laws.  Why would anyone feel it necessary to enact legislation on these things?  Obviously someone felt that these laws, at one time, would make their community a better place, but sooner or later, someone had to recognize that the time for the law about the cow or the alligator had past and yet they are supposedly still on the books!

I wonder if I approach life that way.  How many things do I do the way they have always been done without questioning the why?  Maybe it is time to reflect and ask a few more questions; not merely for the sake of the question but because there might be a better solution or a more practical approach or perhaps I am doing something that doesn’t need doing any longer. 

It gives me cause to wonder.