Stories and other stuff

Thanks to a little help from above, money I wasn't planning on spending, and being able to use the gift of being mechanically inclined that the good Lord blessed me with, the boat is back in the driveway. It goes on KSL this weekend to try and recoup some of what it cost me to get it back home.  Also, the water leak is now repaired and as soon as I'm done with this, I feel a hot shower is in my future. I know, I know, that's not what you want to know about.  Here's the good stuff you want to know: I haven't spoken to the Mrs. in over a week.  The last I heard from her was a bit of a cryptic e-mail.  I know about as much as the rest of you do.  I had a long talk with a Christian friend of mine and she gave me some fresh things to think and pray about on Sunday night.  If you're a follower of the comments on the blog, you'll see one I left in response to another one someone else left. My friend gave me something to think about, in the form of what'...

You should go do something for yourself.  I heard that twice over the weekend and so I decided I was going to go fishing and talk to a Christian friend of mine. I took Ol' Dollar, which is parked at the Conoco station in Green River.  Just how the wheel did not fall off the trailer when the bearing disintegrated, I will never know but it must've happened just before Green River.  I thought something was wrong when the guy tailgating me was suddenly a LOOONNGGG way back there. When I pulled into the gas station the wheel was half-off the axle, hub and all.  The hub and wheel are securely in the back of Chevron and I have some brand new tools I wasn't planning on buying.  I'm going to have a cordless grinder tomorrow, too.  The bearing race melted to the spindle nut and that metal is harder than hammered lightning.  I couldn't cut through it with a hacksaw and a chisel and hammer only had the slightest effect.  The pipe wrench I bought did the m...

I shared with you something very profound from a book I'm reading.  Today's blog is about why I do some of the things (like painting my bedroom lilac and white) I've done over the past couple of months. As the quote read, what you do says more than what you say.  If I truly believe in God's word, what He wants for me, then my actions would show it. I had to explain this a little bit to a few of my friends over the last week.  Doing things like painting the bedroom and moving into a small room when it's just me and three bedrooms doesn't make sense but then it does, from the point of view that I was asked to do it and told that if she shows up, she does, if she doesn't she doesn't. These things may not make sense, but the thing is this:  The wife asked me to do it.  There's a Biblical foundation to support honoring your wife and the best way I can show her I've changed is to, well, SHOW her.  Since April, the Mrs. asked me to do three things...

"When God invites you to join Him and you face a crisis of belief, what you do next tells what you believe about God.  Your actions really do speak louder than words." (from Experiencing God, Lifeway Press, pg 122)

Hi gang. Most of you know that I'm not a big fan of the cell phone.  I don't like talking that much on the phone anyway.  The other day I lost my stupid phone and because I've joined the multitudes that feel they only need one phone, I bought another one only to find mine the very next day.  I swapped the sim cards so all of my contacts are on the phone that doesn't work.  I have three more days to fix that, I suppose. Anyway, that's just the lead in to what I wanted to post.  My son wrote a letter to the editor about this subject that was published back in March about this that I want to  share with you .  I thought he made a pretty good point. Hope you're having a great weekend.  The back 40 is mowed down, the tractor tire is fixed, the boat is cleaned out, running, and ready to go! Have a great weekend. Coop

If you've been following the "rapture" story, the new date is now in October.  It's not.  For that to be true, the Bible would be discredited.  Either the so-called "pastor" that's leading the charge in this story is wrong, or the Bible is.  Think about this for a minute, will you?  The Bible clearly states that no man knows the hour... and if this were some sort of revelation from God Himself, then it would have come to pass. I don't know where people concoct these notions, nor will I ever understand how so many can believe people that do, but the Bible talks of false prophets.  Last night I prayed for these folks and I hope that each of them read their Bibles and come to know the true nature of God. I'm no Bible scholar and I don't pretend to know or understand the meaning of each passage.  I do know that it's very easy to take a particular verse out of context and apply it incorrectly.  I've seen it done and when I share script...

I finished up the master bedroom remodel project today.  At the end of the project, I rummaged around the house and found some things to put in the bedroom so I could take some pictures of it. The first thing I put in the room was my sister's old bed.  From when we were kids, old.  It's kind of an off white now, but when she first got the bed, it was white-white and had a canopy.  The canopy is long gone, but I still have the bed frame with a newer mattress and box spring set.   My sister gave it to me to use as a guest room bed.  To cover the bed, I found a sheet that my grandmother had embroidered some lace and what looks to be a French woman on, with matching pillowcases.  I put a table in the room and two pictures I found around the house are on either corner.  I found an old decorative water can among the treasures, too.  I put it on the table on top of a doily my grandmother embroidered many years ago. We had a white floor lamp, so ...