Where's Coop?

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You know, sometimes I wonder about that myself.

But I know where I'm not.  I'm not a drunk at the bar feeling sorry for myself.  I'm not out chasing women around and I could be.  I'm not where I want to be, to be sure.  Nor am I where I thought I'd be at the beginning of the fall.

Where I'm at is at this place:  I'm where God wants me to be right now.  Where He takes me from here only He knows right now.  It doesn't make much sense to me either.  I just do what it says in the Bible.  I trust in HIm, believe in His word, and believe that eventually I'll know where He wants me.

I''m very blessed.  I've never seen God but I know He exists because I've seen Him working in my life.  We all have things that fascinate us.  It always fascinated me that something so big as the airplanes I work on could fly.  Now I'm fascinated by more subtle things like how the right thing comes along at just the right time, or how this or that person can come into your life at just the right time with just the right thing to say.  It happens a lot in my life these days, and it's not just happening to me.

That's where I'm at.  And like I said, for all the reasons in the world I have to be miserable, unhappy, and any number of negative things, instead, I'm hopeful, happy, and full of joy.  Given the alternatives, I think where I'm at is far and away better than where I could be, don't you agree?

If you were me for a day, where would you be?

Coop

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  1. UnknownDecember 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM

    I'd be drunk at a bar chasing women!!!!!!!

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  2. Dale CooperDecember 8, 2010 at 7:12 PM

    Well, another lifetime ago, that's exactly where I'd have been. I met Wendi in a bar actually, but I wasn't trying to pick her up. I left her at the bar for a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken that Larry Kimpel went and picked up for us.

    Thanks for the laugh KP!

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