WHEN IN NEED PRAY.

Quit working.  Didn’t know what I

was doing, but tore it all to pieces

anyway.  Had to pray.  I still don’t

know why, but God started it 

working again.  PRAISE GOD.

 

GETTING OLD

That old bike looks like I feel at this age.

Years ago I bought a few acres of woods 

in the state tax sales.  At the time I wanted

a lot more woods than that little patch to 

hid in.

The patch of woods came with a trash pile.

People had been dumping things there for 

years.  I think I hauled out two pickup loads

of metal from the pile and sold.

True I was disappointed that I was able to

not buy more.  BUT, after about ten years

and the way things have worked out, I have

had to thank God many times that he let me

get this little place rather than some of the 

ones I really wanted.

 

OVERHAUL TIME

That is an old pitcher pump at Fort Rock

Family Camp.  It probably was installed

mostly for appearance sake.  But, the small

kids just love it.

Any time camp is going you can look over

at that old pump[ and some kid will be pumping

the dickens out of it.  It has "city" water in the

tub underneath, but the kids don't know the 

difference.

I have been a volunteer worker at Fort Rock

Family Camp for possibly ten years.  Mostly

I just repair things.  That means when that old

pump gets worn out, I have to repair it.  I have

no idea how many times I have had to overhaul

that poor old pump because the kids keep 

wearing it out.

But, isn't that just like life.  Day after day we

go through the motions of life and it puts a 

lot of wear on us.  In time if we are not care-

full we become indifferent to the things of 

God while we are just trying to survive the

things of life.

It would be well for us to heed the advice

that the apostle Paul gave to young Timothy:

"This is why I remind you to fan into 

flames the spiritual gift God gave you

when I laid my hands on you."

(2 Timothy 1:6 NLT)

 

BEWARE

Thank God it does not belong to anyone

in this family.  My sun-in-law rented it 

for a business trip.

Is my contempt for the model or the 

brand.?  No.  I did look at the brand,

but have now forgotten what it is.

It is this kind of thing.

I was sitting here at the kitchen table

when I heard a "beep" and the tail gate

went up all by it' self.  There was 

no-one around.

I checked with him.  Did he want the

tail gate up?  He did not even know it

was up.  He had the remote in his pocket

and had accidentally "butt dialed" the car

and the tail gate went up.

That was last night.

Today I happened to look out the window

and the back door was opening all by it's

self.  Yes, he was there with an arm load

of stuff.

Why does that concern me?

I was an auto technician at an automobile 

agency for over one forth of a century.  One

of the things I learned that hard way is that

all of those accessories and convinces break

down and somebody had to fix them.  In fact,

a very high percentage of our repair work was

on accessories, not on things that make the 

car go.

If you buy a car with a lot of accessories 

and convinces they will give you trouble.

If you want more trips to the shop to fix

things, buy lots of convinces to impress 

people with.

 

TESTING

Frankly I do not know what I was testing.

I suspect that I was testing image size and

how it filled the page.

I have no idea who the first little girl is.  But

cute little kids are just too much to pass up.

The second image was taken about ten 

years ago.  She is my great granddaughter.

She was in need of a Bible.  So, grandpa 

and her went to buy her one.  She knew that

blue was my favorite color, so she dressed

in blue.

As soon as we got home she wanted to have

a Bible study.  Guess what!  She was going

to do the teaching.

Jesus said;

"I tell you the truth, unless you turn

from your sins and become like little

children, you will never get into the 

Kingdom of Heaven."

(Matthew 18:3 NLT)

The older I get and the more foolishness

I see, both in the church and out of the 

church.  The more I am beginning to

understand this truth.

GETTING AWAY WITH IT?

There is a sharp, blind left hand curve 

with a steep down hill slope ahead.

But I don't think my truck will even

go as slow as one point five mile an hour.

In fact, I double that I have ever gone as

slow as fifteen miles per hour on this curve.

Why?

Because I think I can get away with it.

This is a rural county and anybody 

driving as slow as the speed limit is

simply holding up traffic.

[Obviously that bottom mounting bolt

makes it look like a different figure 

than was intended.]

Arn't we all that way in life?  We think

the cops can't see us and so we can

get away with it.

It might work with the cops - some

times - but we had better remember

that God sees everything we do and

even knows everything we think.

 

OLD GRUMPY

A few years ago I was at Shamrock bolt

and nut supply in Springdale Arkansas.

This dog came out of a side office to 

either meet me or check me out.

If all the grumpy looking people in the

world were as friendly as this dog is, this

old world would be a whole lot better

place to live in.

It should have put on a pair of silly 

looking sun glasses to hide behind

like people do.

Anyway, I am happy to have meet

that old dude.