Here’s an interesting note about awakening with a song in my head: If it is some certain artist I’m “hearing,” I might quickly move to other songs by the same artist. Today, for example, I was rolling through Hank Williams’ “How Can You Refuse Him Now?” and remembering how much Bro. E.C. Moore loved that song, when I was suddenly flooded with other songs and other friends who loved old Hank!
I have another longtime friend who can recite Hank Williams songs, including Hank as Luke the Drifter: “Men With Broken Hearts” comes to mind, as well as, “Be Careful of the Stones That You Throw.”
This friend and I were in a car one Monday morning and I said to him, “You should have been at our bible conference this weekend. A man sang a Hank Williams song.” And before I could tell my friend about it, he said, “How Can You Refuse Him Now?” I said yes! He started and quoted to me the entire song/poem.
This friend could also quote more Shakespeare than any person I’ve ever met or heard of. Perhaps it has been a part of his search for truth in a lying man’s world. He has related to me this quest which, of course, filled him with doubt and dismay. It is my deepest hope that he has come to see the truth relayed by the question, how can you refuse Jesus now?
[Codicil (of sorts): the “lying man” in the above statement is Satan, the Devil, also known as “the god of this world.”]
Mine and Barb’s talk this morning took some interesting turns. From measuring a cabinet space, to the diabolical plan concerning children and old folks and vaccines, to restaurants we need to visit, to the reality of atomic warfare, and, therefore, ever-so-briefly into the body politic; past, present, and future. We do, indeed, cover it all!
And just so you know, we have settled everything. Moving the cabinet will work, let’s take away pharma’s privileged position of being exempt from suit—then let’s sue them at every loss of life error! Also, there is enough time to visit the good restaurants we keep discovering, bible truth shows us atomic warfare shall not annihilate this world, and lastly, politics is about the same past, present, future so let’s just stop it. See, that was easy.
The 38th (or 39th) Bible conference at Grace Bible Church in Chattanooga, TN is coming up next weekend. There will be some excellent bible teaching, from quiet speakers relaying wonderful truths from God’s word to more intense urgency from others. But, all according to the Word of God. I hope many of you are planning on being there. Starts Friday evening at 7pm Eastern. People from several states always visit providing fellowship sweet!
A scheduling glitch will cause some to miss this, and others of us will have to miss the conference held on next Saturday in Alexandria, AL. We pray for those speakers and all who attend there, as well.
It’s another beautiful day on the mountain! I wish those from around here could stop whining about the heat and simply enjoy what all is abundant here. I think I’ll go get out amongst them! There is a celebration going on in Fort Payne today: ’’Boom Days!”
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