Take me to your leader

I suppose I should warn potential readers of my book about a strange phenomenon that occurred with my wife when she began reading one of the advance copies of it this weekend; I sincerely hope that it doesn’t affect anyone else in the same manner.

I don’t know about where you live, but Honey Lake had absolutely drop-dead gorgeous weather this weekend. It was a might bit nippy in the mornings until the sun peeked its head over the horizon and began to illuminate the sky and reveal the fall coloration of the brilliant red-orange cypress trees surrounding it. The cold slowly began to give way to the sun’s warmth and delightful spooky looking mist began moving about and eerily rising from the lake completely shrouding it to the point I could not see all of the way across it. As I stood on the deck drinking my coffee and admiring God’s handiwork with a wide smile on my face, I couldn’t help but think how great it was to be alive.

It felt invigorating and made me want to get out into the outdoors and enjoy every minute that I could squeeze out of this glorious day. Oh boy I can’t wait to get out there and get with it. I’m gonna ride my horse Dusty, I’m gonna hunt, I’m gonna cruise in my 4 wheel drive Gator and go all over the property, I’m gonna hike and scout for deer, I’m gonna, I’m gonna…

Not so with my wife. Like a lethargic slug she sat in an easy chair and stuck her nose in my book all weekend. It was impossible to converse with her. She didn’t even bother to spruce up and was quite the sight with her hair sticking up and no makeup on. (YIKES! Take me to your leader.)

Earlier she had bragged about all of the things she was going to accomplish over the weekend including buying groceries. She didn’t do any of it. And when I came in from riding Dusty and inquired about my lunch, without even looking up from her book she just grunted and made some unintelligible comment which I interpreted as, “I haven’t been to the grocery store yet. Don’t bug me, I’m reading”.

I went deer hunting later that afternoon and harvested a nice fat deer. By the time I field dressed it, wrenched my back as I loaded it on my truck by myself, and took it to the deer cooler, I arrived home long after dark.

Was she worried about me because I got home late? Did she ask if I enjoyed my hunting trip? Did she ask if I bagged a deer? Was she concerned about my bad back?

No.

Instead she stood with hands on her hip and with a baleful glare said, “I didn’t realize you were so mean before I married you”.

Huh?

I hope all of you don’t think too badly of me when you read the book. Yes, I was mean at one point in my life, but as I told my wife, “THAT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO!” I’m a new creature now and I give all of the glory to the Lord for that.

My all time favorite song is Amazing Grace. The transformational healing power of Jesus Christ is truly AMAZING. And if it was not for grace, I would be dead and forgotten long ago, or locked away in a prison cell somewhere with other hate-filled “mean” men. The Bible tells us to look ahead and not behind. I reminded my wife of that passage.

Give your family a break. Please don’t start the book until you can go into seclusion on a cold blustery day when the weather is miserable outside. Build a fire, put your “Snuggy” on, and have a cup of hot chocolate by your side.

I hope to receive and ship the books out this week. Remember when they arrive the price will go up. Up until I receive them you can still order at the discounted price: WWW.Miracleonluckiestreet.com

2 Cor. 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Isaiah 43:18
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.”


Romans 6:4
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.