August 25, 2013
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TOO BUSY
August has been a tough month. Too much work to do, and not enough time. I’m also at the end of a pretty bad run of sinus infection. It’s rained a lot in the South this year, and grass is the thing I’m most allergic too, so it has been a tough time. I finally hired someone to help me, and I may just survive. This will be the first day I have to work on the book, awhile so I’m hoping to put a couple thousand words down today. First I need to clean out my fridge…Can you say, Hazardous Waste Dump? Hope I survive the ordeal. If you see a headline that goes something like, “MAN FOUND DEAD IN HOME. KILLED BY LETHAL GROWTH IN FRIDGE! You’ll know it was me!
My mom’s younger sister died Friday. Aunt Barb was a pistol, actually she was a pill. Angry and bitter at God, but she was the main cause of all her troubles in life. When her oldest daughter, a devoted Christian, passed unexpectedly about 7 years ago, we had hopes it would be a wake up call, and it seemed like Barb got going in the right direction. The turn around in Barb didn’t last very long. The only wisdom I have to offer from Aunt Barb’s death is: Death bed conversions are rare. When we set a course away from God in our lives, how is it people expect to suddenly run into God near the end? If you’ve spent all of life running from God why would anyone expect to run into him? God isn’t some crazy stalker. If we make it clear, after being offered God, and seeing the good he’s done in the lives of others, that we still want to escape him, then he’ll let us. God isn’t a slavemaster, he is life and freedom. If ya wants life on your terms, then God will let you have it.
The fridge is calling my name…It’s an evil rasping voice mocking me…Gotta suit up!! LATER!!