Posted on 09/27/2005 10:28:13 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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Hey Lee, now you're published!
I certainly do live in the wrong part of the country.
LOL. Look what we're missin'.
Good Job Snippy.
Thanks Lee for letting us share your journal with the Foxhole. :-)
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.
It's Wednesday
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Good morning Snippy, Sam and every one.
From left to right, Staff Sgt. Josie E. Harshe, flight engineer; Capt. Anita T. Mack, navigator; 1st Lt. Siobhan Couturier, pilot; Capt. Carol J. Mitchell, aircraft commander; and loadmasters Tech. Sgt. Sigrid M. Carrero-Perez and Senior Airman Ci Ci Alonzo, pause in the cargo bay of their C-130 for a group photo following their historic flight. U.S. Air Force photo
September 28, 2005
Marching Into A Closet
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Author and pastor Stuart Briscoe writes about a funeral for a war veteran in which the man's military buddies had a role in the service. The friends requested that the minister lead them to the casket for a moment of silence. They would then follow the pastor out a side door.
The plan was carried out with military precisionuntil the minister marched them into a broom closet. The soldiers had to make an awkward retreat.
That pastor made an honest mistake, but it illustrates that leaders must know where they are going. As go the leaders, so go the followers.
The apostle Paul left Titus on the island of Crete to establish a witness for Jesus Christ. Titus was to appoint leaders for the growing band of believers. Except for preaching the gospel, nothing Titus did for the Christians on Crete was more important than finding the right leadership for them.
Church leaders are to meet the standards set forth in Titus 1:6-9 and guide others to greater maturity in their relationship with Christ. And followers must lovingly hold their spiritual leaders accountable to those goals.
Whether you're leading or following, know where you're goingor you may end up in a closet. Haddon Robinson
The only leader worth following is one who is following Christ.
Dear Sam and Snippy, thank you so much! If words could blush...My journal is actually a series of observations. Short little scribbles that jog my memory later when I'm putting it down as a narrative. It takes me a while to parse it out with correct syntax and grammar and like most things there is always something to edit or change every time I read it. This little story is fairly well fleshed out and all the characters and events are as happened. My style of writing is similar to several other Missouri writers such as Vance Randolph and Jack Conroy. It's like painting a picture with words. I hope that those who read this piece will get a glimpse of the mid-west as seen through the eyes of a native son. Call us 'pukes' or 'slop-bucket dutch', it doesn't matter. I'm still proud to be a Missourian.
I agree! It was fun reading it wasn't it...and it isn't over yet, two more days. This kind of story tellin' is informative and entertaining.Good job Lee.
By the way, I'm sure Lee will read all the comments but I must say I forgot to add that a while back Lee had us change his freep name to add a 123 at the back of his name "Lee Heggy 123". I think he's forgotten his password for just "Lee Heggy". Don't you hate when that happens.
Stay tuned, this is one interesting journal.
Nice read . . . thanks . . . brings back fond memories of livin' in Dixie.
Well boy howdy, look who dropped in. ;-)
Almost forgot . . . XOXOX!
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 28:
0551BC Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
0106BC Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior
1785 David Walker Wilmington NC, a black born free
1820 Fredrich Engels, socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
1824 Francis Turner Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1839 Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
1849 Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1852 Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
1856 Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1880 Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1882 Jack Fournier 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president
1901 William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1905 Max Schmeling Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
1905 William Northam Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 Glen (Turk) Edwards NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 Heikki Savolainen Finland, pommel horse gymnast (Olympic-gold-1948)
1909 Al Capp(Alfred Gerald Caplin) New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1913 Alice Marble tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1916 Peter Finch actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London)
1919 Thomas Harmon football player/sportscaster (Heisman winner)
1923 William Windom NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni actor (8«, La Dolce Vita)
1925 Arnold Stang Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 Jerry Clower Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
1933 Madeleine M Kunin Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1934 Brigitte Bardot Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1938 Ben E King NC, singer (Stand by Me)
1940 Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
1941 Charley Taylor NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1943 Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 Joel Higgins Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1946 Herbert Jefferson Jr Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up)
1948 Marielle Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Phil Hartman comedian (SNL)
1952 Sylvia Kristel Holland, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls)
1954 Steve Largent wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1958 Lory Del Santo Verona Italy, (Miss Italy-1980)
1961 Anne White Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1962 Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa rocker (Valley Girl), Frank's daughter
1968 Carr Otis SF Calif, actress (Wild Orchid)
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