A Few Prayers for Texas Cowboy!!

The Horse's Mouth | 08-Apr-05 | Tom Eaker

[Eaker]

Prayers for TexasCowboy!

TexasCowboy has been using his hip injury as an excuse to prevent his friends from shooting his new riot gun.

Well some of us offered to take a look at it for him and he decided both a proffesional and sober opinion might make more sense.

So he found a coupon and now he is going to let some old saw-bones cut on him.

Probably a better idea than letting us do it, but a few folks feelings are still hurt!

Please all say a prayer for our Cowboy that he is back in the saddle again real soon.

[deadhead]

"Yes, BG - we all look for a similar miracle for Logan's beloved Uncle TC."

Lovely post, LadyX. Yes, another Logan Miracle. We all know that miracles do happen. Hang tough, TC and keep the faith.

Prayers and Blessings to you, Texas Cowboy.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

AMEN

[oceanperch]

Please add Oceanperch to your TC ping list.

[LadyX]

Good night, TC -- rest well, dear friend.
May your discomfort ease, and your dreams all be pleasant --
God be with you, noble warrior --

~ LadyX

[oceanperch]

You might be a independant tough Cowboy on the outside but Starwise's pic sure has captured your soul/heart on the inside.

I have been having a hankerin to watch the old musical with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood "Paint Your Wagon!"

[cubreporter]

Thank you. Continued prayers.

[STARWISE]

Ya mean, this compromised cowpoke? ... Poor horse.

[STARWISE]

Better one:

[oceanperch]

LOL That's the one.
I was a kid when I fell in love with that movie and had the sound track on vinyl.

I was born in Eastern Texas and love the Rodeo but other than that the only real Cowboys I know are here.

Texas is in my heart even though I am a PNW old girl.

[in the Arena]

Still in my prayers...

Jim

[Txsleuth]

Just checking in, one Texan checkin on another---

Thank you Eaker, for keeping us up to date on Tx Cowboy's condition---

Please be careful when you call him, it would prolly hurt if he laughs----seriesly!!!

TC--been sending up prayers for you and yours---there is kind of a bottleneck up there in the sky with all the prayers that have been sent that way, but thats okay, I am patient---and so should you be. Prayers UP!

[amom]

Checkin in for an update and giving this thread a little prayer ping while I'm here.

Thinking of you big guy, hoping you are resting easy right now.

[LadyX]

Hey there, Big Guy --

Been listenin' in on ya, and knowin' you kinda looked up to me, have a few thoughts for you. Woke LadyX to write down a few things in a form you can read when you get a laptop...

First of all is the name thing, you gettin' hung with the El Roy ('The King') Ray moniker, and me with Marion Morrison - lol - can you see that on a theater marquee?! Actually, my nickname of 'Duke' was in honor of a dog I had as a lad in the California desert...:)

Know you love the deserts of West Texas where you roamed as a little fella, going on later to bigger ones in Saudi Arabia and to other parts of Africa, and places in Singapore and other exotic places, as well as several states in America in your work coaxing gas from the earth for us.

You know all about hard dirty work and 'True Grit,' just like me - appreciated the movie I made of Sands of Iwo Jima and the Marines -- you were one in real life, and know how special that is! An old football injury kept me from going to Annapolis or in service, but I always loved the military.

Yep - starred in all kinds of hero type films, but what I loved best was Our America and preserving her. In 1944, I helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, later becoming its president for 3 years.
Those USO tours I did were some of my best 'work' from WWII through Vietnam, and I wore Capt. Stephen P Hanson's "Prisoner of War" bracelet after the Marine was shot down over Laos, Vietnam. Sadly, Hanson never came home but I stayed in contact with his wife and young son.

During a visit to Vietnam in 1966 I was given a tribal bracelet of the Montagnard people - in 1973 was honored with the Veterans of Foreign Wars highest award - The National Americanism Gold Medal. Congress awarded me the Congressional Gold Medal in 1979.
Most recently was the honor of an Army RAH-66 Helicopter, to be named "The Duke." Many were there at the naming ceremony in Washington D.C. on May 12, 1998, including my children and grandchildren, congress men, the president of the USO Metropolitan Washington, dignitaries and many military personnel.
Michael Wayne said at the ceremonies, "John Wayne loved his country and he loved its traditions."
I surely did, just as you do.

Know you have that kind of heart, Big Fella, and now are fighting a mighty battle.
I'm here in 'Big Sky Country' to tell ya to hang tough and bite a bullet or two when you have to, but there are a whole lot of folks cheerin' for you, and prayin' for you.
We hear those streaming in a very long ribbon all the way to where I am!

Had a lot of horses in my day, and maybe I should tell you that your Grasshopper is in a pasture near me, waitin' for you to ride like the wind on him again whenever you get here! It'll be a fine day whenever in God's timing you do come to these pastures God has provided for us...a whole bunch of Marines will be lined up on either side of the road to bring you aboard.

One more thing--when you are hurtin' and need to retreat to a more comfortable place, just imagine you're in a sleeping bag in the back of your pickup truck under the night skies of West Texas, and count those stars instead of sheep! By day, mentally pick up your guidon and lock on to that old Right Guide stride and march on --

Lookin' forward to shaking your hand some day.

"The Duke"

[StarCMC]

Lady, you have me in tears this morning. {{{HUGS!}}}

[M0sby]

Thanks for the update, Eaker!

Just Bumping this thread to wish TC a "Good Saturday Morning"

Hang in there, my friend!

We are all praying for you..and sending you a hugs and kisses!
(well..mine anyway;-)

Love to you...

Keep the faith.

M0sby

[LadyX]

Isn't it significant and wonderful that TC has touched so many of our lives?!
He is a shining example of rising from humble beginnings through all kinds of disasters and missteps - learned from them, and was - well - 'refined' over and over, as we must be for God to use us..:))

He has extended himself to so many others here, and both challenges us mentally and spiritually and helps us sort through things for ourselves.
Through it all, he has developed into a worthy human being we all call friend...

~~ Hey, TC - wanna start another Reminiscing thread?!! ~~
Guaranteed to go into the many thousands of replies!
lol

[SheLion]

[PetroniDE]

Thank Eaker. Please keep us posted.

[fight_truth_decay]

Hope Cowboy is back in the saddle again...


Out where a friend is a friend
.
Where we sleep out every night
.
Where the only law is "right"
.
I'll be back in the saddle again


Riding the range once more

Totin' my old riot gun

Where the long-horned cattle feed

On the lonely jipson weed

I'll be back in the saddle again


Whoopy-ti-yi-yo

Rocking to and fro'

I'll be back in the saddle again


Whoopy-ti-yi-ya

I'll be on my way back in the saddle again.

(plagiarized)

[amom]

It is significant and wonderful that TC has touched so many of our lives...indeed.

There are also those wars he battled behind the scenes. One of which I had the honor of being a part of which went on for quite awhile. He fought a great battle dispite personal attack and threats. His integrity and honor and the sense of justice outweighing the noisy irritations. He can be counted on to ACT rather than idly sit by and hope someone 'fixes' it.

TC's now beginning to reap his rewards in the form of prayers and help and good wishes from friends he's acquired over the years.

What a guy, what a guy.

Funny how we never really know the effect of our actions till the chips are thrown down. TC has measured up well and is very worthy of our help and support and prayers.

And with that I continue, PRAYERS UP!