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Fleas And Knees: Giving God Thanks In All Things
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Food Stamps
I couldn't tell how old he was. Probably late fifties. Could have even been in his forties. Who knows? He could have been in his thirties.
The evidence of guilt was on his face. Cigarettes and alcohol and maybe even drugs had cut a path of deep creases into his forehead and his face. He sat on the sidewalk in front of Wal-Mart. One of his friends sat next to him. It was a pack of some generic brand of cigarettes but even they probably cost three or four dollars a pack. I came out of Wal-Mart with a buggy full of groceries and he asked me a stupid question.
"Would you like to buy some food stamps?"
I just walked past him. He asked people walking into the store if they wanted to buy food stamps.
I wondered if the man had children at home that were hungry. He could use the food stamps to buy them food. Instead, the man had a monkey on his back that he could not shake off.
I knew what he would do with the money if he had it. The beer companies, the cigarette companies and the Florida Lotto would all make money. Children would go hungry.
I wish now that I had done something to help. I wish that I had picked up my cell phone and dialed 9-1-1 and reported him for trying to sell the food stamps. 140424
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Blood on the Doorpost
Verse 1:
Angels camp around me every night when I lie down,
God gives me a peace, only in Him can be found,
Though it may be dark outside I'm guarded by the Light
And the blood on the doorpost protects me in the night.
Chorus:
Blood on the doorpost,
Blood that washed my soul,
Blood on the doorpost,
Blood that makes me whole,
The blood that Jesus shed,
I know He shed for me
And the blood on the doorpost is protecting me.
Verse 2:
Destruction will not come in the middle of the night,
Like it did to Pharaoh's people before Moses took his flight,
Well, I dwell in the Land of Canaan, milk and honey. That's right.
And the blood on the doorpost protects me in the night.
Repeat chorus
Tag:
And the blood on the doorpost protects me in the night.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Abbie's Sense of Humor
The other night, I walked into Walmart in Live Oak with Abbie. We got our buggy and I stationed Abbie at the back so she could push it, which she enjoys doing. I had leaned over and was looking at cookies or something else which don’t need to eat and she disappeared. I’m serious. Poof! She vanished.
My brother, Danny, and my father were behind us getting power buggies (since both of them have trouble getting around in the store) and neither of them saw Abbie disappear either.
I don’t think I have to tell many of you that I was frightened. I began asking others in the store if they had seen which way my mentally challenged sister went. None of them had. I ran out the door to make sure that she hadn’t gone back in the parking lot. There was no sign of her there.
When I got back in the store, Danny and Daddy were fanning out looking for her as I frantically continued to search.
I saw Daddy come out of one aisle, driving his buggy and Abbie was sitting on it with him, just laughing. He said that she had popped out of one aisle and hopped on it with him.
I collected Abbie and we set about doing our shopping, with her happily pushing the buggy and grinning from ear to ear about the joke she had played on her big brother.
The Bible tells us that a merry heart doing good like a medicine but sometimes a little joke can just about scare the life out of you.