To God Be The Glory

10/24/2018

In one week, we will leave October behind, head into even cooler weather in November, but enjoy it all, just the same. Here in NE AL, hardly any leaves have fallen. Or, for that matter, hardly any color change. Last weekend the eclectic town of Mentone held its Fall weekend event called “ColorFest.” If the color was anything but green, someone must have gifted them with paint. Pretty sure a whole bunch of people had a really great time, anyway. I enjoy those kinds of weekends, but my timing was wrong this year and we couldn’t get to it.

We did, however, have a reason to go to Fort Payne on Saturday evening and the final 3rd Saturday Antique Car Celebration was going on in its last hours of the season. We saw a single hump camel (dromedary?), a beautiful pinto horse giving rides to children of different ages, and a piglet which has been raised by humans from the day he was born. He was “pretty” in a special sort of way (hard to find a way piglets are beautiful.) He was rather hairy for a piglet, sort of blond with a couple of darker streaks—I wondered who his hairdresser was—a cross between a Duroc, usually dark reddish brown, and a spotted poland china, usually black and white. Strange looking for a piglet. Didn’t catch his name.

We also saw a friend or two, a couple of talk sessions, listened to a little music, came home. An exciting evening, don’t you think?

Yesterday, I was writing a business plan. Ever written one? If you were going to ask for a SBA loan, you’d have to write one to tell them how your business would workout. If someone was interested in investing in your business, they might ask to see yours. It comes down to describing why a business or business idea like yours will succeed. The mere fact of writing it down makes one understand whether it will work or will not work, most of the time. It was exhilarating to write it. Whether I will be able to make heads or tails of it this morning remains to be seen. I haven’t braved looking at it yet.

SIMH is an old hymn we sang a lot when we were in the Baptist churches. “To God Be The Glory —great things He hath done, so loved He the world, that He gave us His Son! Who yielded His life an atonement for sin, and opened the Life gates that all may go in!”

When we moved to Oxford, AL in 1973 and began going to Meadowbrook Baptist Church, I believe that’s when I first heard this great hymn. We sang it often, and why not? It tells of how glorious it is to have been given the gift of salvation—eternal life in Christ Jesus!

Remembering it this morning and looking forward to the weekend bible conference in Navarre,FL, is filling my mind with stuff I have to do to get ready, stuff I want to take with me on the extended portion of the trip (going on to Texas for a short visit) and so I’d better finish this blog, get out of this chair and get a move on!

Thanks for reading, the Elder