9/12/2019
Sometimes startling news can tip the scales of decision-making and prompt new and innovative things. Like day before yesterday, we got the news that our building (where we have my daughter’s Blue Jug Alkaline Water and Health Market) has been sold and the new owner desires the building to be used for something else, so she was delivered an ultimate for moving her business. It was a little bit unreasonable and I’m sure there will be some extension on the time, but it spurred into action the plan and formulation of “what’s next?” for her business. So we’ve, collectively, been brainstorming on how to go about doing what is next. This is fun! A little harried, but fun!
Remember the book, “Oh the Places We’ll Go!”? That’s the kind of excitement this generates. Nothing about the next 90 days will be easy, but it will be an exciting process and energizing to work against the deadline of whatever the moving date winds up being! I’m just a “hired hand” in all this, maybe a little counseling, or a reminder of something, but I look forward to my part and the expected grand new look of the finished product! For several months (nay, years) Sarah and the rest of us have been talking about what to include, what to promote, and what to expect. Some of that may still come on an “in stages” program due to the timing and what sort of store space she can find. Even if all that happens now or over a longer period of time, it will include the much needed upgrade to our system and the overall store “look” will create an elevating and perhaps a very purposeful move.
Every so often my SIMH wends its way back to Alison Krauss. This morning it was “A Living Prayer”—by her. A beautiful song and a beautiful way of saying what is my relationship to the Lord and what I wish for that to reflect. I really enjoy most of her music and her band. Also, the duets she comes up with—she’s a little like Willie Nelson concerning duets. Willie once said, “If I ain’t done a duet with you, what makes you think you’re popular?”
Back TO the BIBLE:: We really enjoyed the first regular Sunday afternoon Bible Class here at our house. We were small in number but huge on the doctrine of the Lord. We had a good discussion, though not too long, good fellowship and a plain and simple look at how the Bible transitions from age to age (or dispensation to dispensation.)
We’re just a little more than a week away from the bible conference in Chattanooga, Grace Bible Church (if you need information about going, go to understandingyourbible.com and give Bro. Steve a call. We always enjoy this conference and I think this is the 40th. Many friends from many states will be there and the fellowship is sweet. I hope you can make it. I look forward to seeing you. We will not have the pleasure of Bro. Brian Sipes and family. Bro. Brian has been very ill and is recovering, but the breath for preaching and the stamina to do so is still not recovered. And, Bro. Robby, Brian’s son, is preparing for a wedding for his oldest daughter and they will not make it to the conference, either. They will all be missed.
One month after that conference is the Navarre, FL bible conference, conducted by Bro. Byron Wiggins. I look forward to going there, also, and the friends I get to visit with there include some coming from Texas! Love my Texas friends!
Had a short conversation a day or so ago with the new Presbyterian pastor in our town. I told him I was a dispensationalist and was I correct in assuming he was a “covenant theologian,” to which he replied yes, he was. And that ended the conversation. I tried to continue, but he said he had to go and seemed rather put out by having to talk with me at all. Gee, I hope he comes back for more water. He gave me his card, maybe he’ll lighten up a little. I assured him on his way out the door, that I thought we could still be friends. He’s young, he’ll come around……Don’t ya know sarcasm when ya hear it?
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