SIMPLE MADE COMPLICATED

"God made us plain and simple,

but we have made ourselves very complicated."

-Ecclesiastes 7:29 (TEV)

MOTORCYCLE STAGES

Any good motorcycle goes through

stages. This is what mine looked

like when I bought it.

The first week I took off the kitchen

sink, the linen closets and the barn

door. That saved over 70 lbs.

Rode it like this as a work motorcycle

for years.

Then I retired. Got board and turned

it into this.

Was fun. But being retired I went to

riding a lot of back dirt roads and into

the National Forest.

Bobbers do not work well there.

So!

Came this. Works good. Enough

stuff on board to live in the woods for

several days if necessary.

Depending on some "pending" circumstances.

This may change.

Possible motorcycle prototypes to consider below.

The high gas mileage motorcycle.

Or the camouflage model.

What is your suggestion for the next

generation of this motorcycle???

ABANDONED

I have always enjoyed seeing abandoned
buildings. Why? I do not know. Probably
because there were none in the area I
grew up in. And it is obvious that someone
needs to explore them. "Me".

However, abandoned people, or being
abandoned is something else. Life has
a way of being harsh. Often we feel left
out or abandoned - even when not.

I often feel left out when it comes to
people. We are walking two different
roads. I do not want to share in the
end result of their life.

But in over fifty some years of walking
or living with God, He has never
abandoned me.

"For God has said, 'I will never leave you;
I will never abandon you.'"
- Hebrews 13:5 (GNB)

If you will go with God, you will never be
abandoned.

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THE MASTER ARTIST

The master artist.

This scene was out our kitchen window one
evening. The way I love nature brings to my mind
how God does every thing better than man. Man
can only copy what God has done to one degree
or another.

Perhaps the most beautiful of all sights
is when some old wreck of a human, man or
woman,finally turns to God. Then accepts
Jesus Christ into their life to save their
soul and be their master and Lord.

The joy that comes into their heart, the
hope that fills their mind, the peace that floods
their soul, and the smile on their face is one of
the greatest pieces of God's work. Man can't do
it. It's God that is the true master artist.

A FAVORITE PLACE

Alright. I'll confess. I was just messing around with the pictures and HTML trying to learn a little bit. Of course that hurts so bad I learn very slowly.

Then it occurred you might like to see one of my favorite hang outs. This one is near Forum, AR.

You no doubt figured out one of my greatest joys is being out in God's creation. NO. Creation did not just happen by it's self any more than my ride there just happened because I accidentally fell onto my motorcycle and it just happened to start by it's self.

Hope to meet you there the next time I go.

NEEDS OIL

Best compressor I ever had. Bought it used. It outlasted one new one, then out worked another new one. They just don't make them like that anymore.

But after about fifteen years it quit. Stopped, locked up, froze up, gave up.

When I dumped the oil out of it, there wasn't any. But, it had an oil dip stick, and place to put oil in. Will the surprises never end? It had oil in it when it was bought. Must have been cheap oil. Things simply go better with oil.

Life is like that for most of us. We go and go and go. Then life begins to grind on us hard, metal to metal, then to a halt.

But I've found the best oil ever. I simply go to Jesus for an oil change.

GEAR HEAD

I have always considered myself a "gear head". That was because I could not qualify for: student, geek, techie, smart, athletic, writer, artistic or rich.

One definition given on the Internet says a gear head is, ":a person who pursues mechanical or technological interests (as in automobiles or computers):" I still might make it.

But then I found a real "gear head". It is so much better looking than myself and smarter, that I'm ashamed of myself. Now I don't know what I am.

The genuine gear head above I found at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park in Prairie Grove, AR. As you can see it is a very complicated high tech peace

of equipment. It's no wonder this old hill billy feels so humiliated and inferior.

But there is a day coming when God is going bring down ALL of the pride of mankind. So I guess a head start on humility would be good for me.