Emphasis Preaching Journal

Some of us remember the heyday of station wagons: those versatile, all-purpose vehicles that preceded the minivan. It was an age of innocence, an age before seat belts -- so that meant, as often as not, that a whole rabble of children would end up rolling around in the back of somebody's station wagon, back where the cargo was supposed to go. Few parents worried that, in case of an accident, their children would become flying projectiles. Somehow, the station-wagon generation survived.