He Knows Just What I Need

While picking up garbage on the carlot today I was thinking, I need to buy me one of those handy dandy picker uppers they sell at Lowes and I will not have to bend over so much because a carlot next to a carwash leaves a lot of flying garbage. As I get toward the back of the lot and there behind the dumpster of the carwash lays a picker upper with the handle broke.(Insert Twilight Zone Music Here) I picked it up and put two rivets in the handle and presto!! I have a yellow handle handy dandy model 4012 customized picker upper. WOW! He satisfies and every need supplies yes………………

Lord I Hope This Day Is Good

If this day and the rest of the week are like yesterday and last week it will be good starting off with one the top 5 best weeks in business that I have had in the last several years as it has been tough for the last five years but slowly getting better. We had a good service yesterday with Ken talking about how to help the hurting and awards handed out to our young people for excellence in speeches and singing and many other aspects of service and worship. And then Tim Moore brought us the evening lesson for the 2012 High School Seniors and then a video of their lives and dinner. A very busy good day at our church and I was thinking this past week how our church is not a part time half hearted place to be a member. With services every 3- 4 days and constant fellowship meals and service projects and special events you can’t just be a one hour on Sunday kind of Christian. Many of my friends and family have give up on the mid week service and the Sunday night service and any thing in between and I think that sets a bad example for lost friends and family that are watching our every move. Our Elders have said we are going to be the cornerstone church in this community for those that really want an active Christian life with fellow Christians. Many through the years have told me that is the life they wanted but they really didn’t. If there are those who see it necessary to attend on Sunday night or Wednesday night then we are going to be there for them. It’s not an easy life as a leader in our church but when I realize it’s not all about me then it makes it easier. I don’t really know any other kind of life and could not go to giving God one hour a week of my time as that would not be fair. Today is the parade of rednecks towing their campers back from Talladega as they do twice a year. It is an amazing sight. I should be thankful Lord I know I should but…………………………

Sail On

Sail on down the line this coming Monday and we are happy to try a new adventure by heading to Jacksonville Florida next Saturday we will make our way to the Carnival Fascination and head to the Keys and Bahamas and hope it does not happen at warp speed as is has the last two years. With this trip costing less than a week at a condo it is a no brainer what we would do. We have shouted out to all of our friends the joy of a cruise but many just can’t see it. Some are worried about recent news of turning over and like I have been telling them if you didn’t drowned you get a free cruise, and with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic this year I figure if we sink they will make a movie about it and people will still be talking about us in 2112. Maybe Leonardo can play me in the movie. Well the Prom is over, Melissa’s checking account is in the red and the Senior Recital is over and a great Easter Sunday with the family has quickly passed and just tie up some loose ends at work and head south for a week. I’m lookin for a good time.

 

Without Him

Month after month people roll in here to make their payments and feel the need to tell me about their deadbeat spouses, deadbeat kids, lousy jobs, and bad financial situation and some begin to tear up and look to me to listen and I guess give advice. I never hear them say pray for me or we are going to the bible for answers or my church is helping me, they just keep on trying to figure it out on their own. Especially those with pains and illnesses, they just want to move on and hopefully it will all go away. I want to tell them what they need but with out a doubt they will make vain promises to me and to themselves or will just discount it all together. I hate for people to be in stress or pain but help is available but they just will not ask. There is a sad day coming with more pain.

God Is So Good

Once again I would have paid good money to have gotten to stay at home last night as it was the end of a long week of work but as I left the 29th A capella singing I was thinking, I would not take any amount of money to have missed it. Again it was packed with great singers and leaders from all over the country that really love to sing and again two hours that went by so fast I think someone was messing with the clocks. Not a bad spot in the whole service.
What a great week it has been weather wise and business wise. I have been blessed beyond measure. A great rain to wash away the pollen and clean the air and my cars and a clear cool beautiful morning to remind me of who were singing those praises to. Time to go home and work on the flower beds and enjoy some home time. He’s so good to me.

Two Pathetic People

This was the name of one of the eight cues that Tim wrote and was recorded by an orchestra in Nashville yesterday at the Ocean Way recording studio. The movie was written and Tim wrote the music and kids from the music college came and played and it was a good twelve hour adventure but very interesting.
Saturday at moms with Rodney, Jack, Josh messing around outside in the most perfect weather. That was fun.
Skylar did his Senior Recital last week and made us all proud and then took off for Panama City for a week of R&R.
Back to work and trying to replace the cars that have been sold in the last two months, that takes a lot of work.
Did not want to forget these two events in my life. I may never do anything like it again.

Can’t Touch This

Monday will mark the end of my 13th year in the car business, here it is Saturday morning and cool with an afternoon warm up just like my first day here. I remember it well. I am very happy with my employment not having to answer to superiors that many time made no sense in the way they did things. There is nothing like the car business, an item we all have to have and people keep wearing them out and wrecking them and kids keep turning 16 so it’s a good business. Happy to still be here.
Thursday night we go to hear Skylar’s Senior Recital and we are looking forward to that as his trumpet playing for education purposes will be ending and he can just play for the fun of it like I do my drums. Today we will take the pontoon out of the water and let it sit on land for a while, it has been in the water for more than ten years and with skyrocketing rental for a boathouse and  overpriced gas and a history of the last few years of not really having the time to enjoy it very often and Rodney and Janey and Jack buying a new boat we will try something different for a few years. Hopefully using the lake house more. Getting ready to lead worship in the morning and a study of Walking in the Lord.

Jessica

My friend Jessica Guthrie Johnson died today, news that I knew was coming but just didn’t want to hear. A year of survival mode for her and her family with a very sad ending. I grew up with her though she was a couple of years older that me we had church that bound us together and she has a close family just like I do. Her grandmother raised Jane Ann at her day care so I saw Jessica a good bit and she was a cheerleader and very friendly. One time at a very young age I was around her at her grandmothers house for a church event for young folks and I was the first to arrive. Jessica came in with some checkers and she dropped them and I began to help her pick them up. I only picked up one and I was so afraid to hand it to her afraid that I might touch her that I just stuck it in my pocket. I can’t explain that other than I was afraid of girls. Her ability as an administrator in education made her so valuable to our church. I know her family is hurting and I wish things would have worked out different. But her pain is gone and she is in heaven and we will see her again soon. There are no words to the song Jessica, I think this is fitting for my friend.

Let’s Get Physical

We have a membership to the Aquatic Center for the year and last night I decided to go sit in the hot tub and swim a little and it is very nice to be able to access something so nice any time you like. It makes me and Melissa feel like back in the days of the DOME at the Plantation. She is doing water aerobics and really liking that with several folks from church and her work friends. But a trip down memory lane was standing in a dressing room with a bunch of naked guys at my locker getting dressed with the smell of a locker room it made me feel like I was some kind of athlete and I know I am now as about as far from that as can be as I am about church, family,and business,  But I did enjoy that youthful feeling that use to be such an everyday part of life.
Yesterday was a proud day for my family as Kristen was inducted into the National Honor Society. We went to the ceremony where all the kids were quiet as could be in respect for these inductees. I was impressed with their good behavior. Mrs. Harris the Superintendent gave a great speech on wisdom and where to get it. Her talk was bible centered and I later found out she was raised in the Church of Christ and that made me like her even more. Skylar comes home tonight for the first time since Christmas. A good week at work and 72 degrees last night at 10 p.m. really weird. Time to be productive and let me hear my body talk.

Bad To The Bone

I have never been less surprised to hear of the death of someone as I was Whitney Houston. A great line from Lonesome Dove is “if you ride with the outlaws, you die with the outlaws”. Enough said. It was a bad ending for another wealthy drug attic. On a happy note another Monday and I am recovering from another drug filled weekend myself. Years and years of no sickness and then I have missed 2 out of four Sundays. Thank goodness for Tim who is always standing by. A trip to Montevallo last Thursday night for our final college night there with the Gold winning again after a no contest with the Purple putting on an hour of wasted time on stage and in the orchestra pit. It just wasn’t entertaining or understandable what they were trying to accomplish.
Kristen appears to be going to forego here senior year at C.H.S. on the fastrack program and start at Wallace and be a college sophomore when she graduates High School. So no more Friday football unless we want to go and two kids in college at once. ( Donations Accepted), should be an interesting time. One thing that has not been bad this winter is Winter.Very nice for this time of year and much more work can get done. Well the drugs are working so I better be too. I just here to tell you honey that things have been……….