I’m Back

Finally got to see the giant Confederate battle flag flying over by I-75.  You know it is a really cool design for a flag.  I only wish it had not been used to represent the hate that it has been used to represent over the last hundred so years.  I found out a few years ago that I had some great uncles that fought for the South.  One of them died on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.  As I thought about this I was proud about the fact that they fought for something that they believed in, but at the same time I was torn about the something that they fought for.

Watch this. 

Recently I have been thinking about the thought of dying for my belief in God.  Is it worth just dying because someone puts a gun to your head and says do you believe in God and if you say yes they pull the trigger and you die for your belief.  Is that the same as being put to death by a government that arrests you and sentences you to die because you have been distributing bibles and starting home churches.  Are both deaths the same, or is one more important than the other?

I don’t know. I would think that dying by the hands of a non-believing government would inspire more to believe.  But also, being shot after saying that you believe in God and left on the side of the road by someone that is just bent on killing could inspire just as many.  Because the second death would not be as publicized unless their was someone else there or the killer lived to tell the story.  Where the first death would be more public and publicized.

So a question: Would you die for your belief in God if the only one that knew that was why you died is the one that killed you?

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Break

I am taking a break from blogging, for all the 5 people that sometimes read my blog.  You ask, “You have not posted in 5 forevers and you say you are taking a break?”.  Let me explain.  It is true that I have not posted in a little while, but every day I tell myself that I am going to post today and when I get busy and don’t get a post up, I feel I have failed at the day.  So I am going on a official break 4 weeks maybe more.  This way I can have some days that one of the things I don’t have to worry about is posting on my blog.

So, I am officially on a blog break.

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Busy

Been real busy the last few weeks.  Busy at being busy.  Went to Alabama and visited the family.  Had a great time catching up with nieces and nephews, brother in laws, sister in law, and sister.  Always good to see everyone, but always good to be back home. 

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Flag Stuff

I am in the process of doing a little research on flags of the Confederates before I post on the battle flag that was hoisted up on interstate 4 a week or so ago, also this article was pretty decent.  I was going with one angle and after I talked with my wife today I am looking at it from a different angle.

On another note, I am starting to enjoy being in ministry more and more each day.

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Bald Headed Son

I talked yesterday about shaving my son Krutchens head.  He said he just wanted to do it.  So we did it Tuesday nite.  I promised pictures and here they are.

          

 

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Something my dad would have never done.

Today was my childrens’ last day of school.  For the past few weeks Krutchen, my son, has been threatening to shave his head bald.  Well, I would be the one to do it, so I told him it was all him, his decision.  Then as I thought about what he said I started thinking about what my parents would have done if I had said I wanted to shave my head.  Now my mom is a hairdresser, (southern for beautician), and she would have probably been the one to shave it if I had done it.  But in no shape or fashion would my dad ever helped me shave my head unless my life depended on it.  So I decided right then that if my son wanted me to shave his head I would, and I did.  Last nite at 11pm I shaved Krutchens’ head.  I left my camera here at the office so I will not have a picture up until tomorrow, but I will get a picture tonight and post it tomorrow.

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Just one of those things.

I am not going to say that God punishes me for when I do stupid things, but I do think that he gets my attention by pointing out to me that I can make the same mistakes.  For example, If I see some video work that has a mistake in it and I point it out to  someone else, instead of keeping it to myself, I find myself making the same mistake with in the next two weeks.  

Just something to think about and discuss.

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Twenty Years!

Today, May 28th, 2008 marks twenty years since me and got married. I told her today after we talked about what the last twenty years have held for us, “That it has been one heck of a ride”. I recently told her that I do not know why I love her but that I just know with everything in me that I love her. I was introduced to her by her boyfriend at the time in the fall of 1982. We went out on our first date December 23rd of that year. I was ready to get married a month later. She was a senior in high school and wanted to get a business degree from Auburn, her father said he would not pay for college if she got married. So we waited for her to graduate.

We have been together ever since. Now we have had our ups and downs like any other married couple, but I would not trade the experience for anything.

I have this from January of 1994, we found out the following December that she was pregnant with Krutchen. Now, one thing that amazes me is we are smiling. Recent pictures of us you can not get us to smile for anything. Maybe we are just taking life to seriously, I don’t know. I know one thing, that farmer tan rocks! I would have included a picture from our wedding but the wedding album is put up real well and safe right now,(we moved a year ago and can’t find it right now).

Well, I just wanted to say one more time, Kim, I Love You, and I don’t care who knows. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Later.