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.

[tertiary01]

Continued prayers for your recovery.
I just read on another thread that Carlo3b had been off for a few months fighting his own bout of cancer.

[Kitty Mittens]

Standing in Agreement with both of your Prayers for Texas Cowboy!

Thank You for Your Hand of Comfort, Peace, and Healing over our FRiend, Dear Lord. We Praise You for All You have Done, and for All You will yet Do. Be Glorified in the Lives of Your cherished children, and Grant Texas Cowboy the Greatest Blessings of Heaven.

Guide All who Minister to Your child in Every Step they Take, Your Own Wisdom being Imparted to them, with Your Grace. Wrap Your child in Your Wonderful Love, Your Presence Abidibg with him, Day by Day. We Love You, our Merciful Master, and Pray in Thy Name, and for Thy Glory, amen.

[LadyX]

Well, TC -- as you know from our exchanges in past years, loving God's land as we do, you know I love roaming it..:)

While everyone has a favorite place for their "Walk In The Garden" to talk with God, my best 'conversations' with Him have been while driving -- okay, so He three times had to intervene to protect me! lol

This afternoon found me on the road for a JOY RIDE!! --

no, no, not like Diver Dave's two fellas,
Bailey and Jack,
shown here cruisin' in Dave's convertible --

but to experience the land at the height of summer, and commune with Him...mentioning your name often...

Drawn by lovely blue skies and huge billowing clouds (the latter a rarity here), I traced a back road to Bamberg.

It was glorious to see green everywhere, rains plentiful this year. I drank in the vistas of rolling terrain, treed sections alternating with farmlands -- rolled haybales ready for horses and bovines...crops maturing, with corn tasseled, soybeans looking fine.

One large farm emterprise apparently is fuel conscious -- three men (in their 40's?) were going from a house, down the road I was on a few dozen yards. and into a field on the other side - economically, and with ease, each one on a four wheeler, rather than pickup trucks!! -- lol
Made perfect sense, able to go where there are no roads and/or tight spaces...

This particular state road crosses over what is a major earthquake fault line, prime to any day split asunder...did not lollygag there..:))

Absent were the beautiful black and white cattle of an old established farm, remembered from the last 10 years -- but on the return journey, deviating to other back roads nearby, found they'd merely been "moo-ved" to the back side of the farm - and along this road were even more beautiful farms with bigger, better, greener everything, cropwise!!

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As we've agreed, connecting with God as we view His Creations has a positive, regenerating effect upon our souls!

Thus it was today, and I "willed" some of that new energy to flow to you to fortify you for the fight that lies just over the horizon...

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Tapped into that Power today, TC,
and transferred some of it to you...
you and I do not give in, or ever give up
to any of life's challenges...
Hang tough, Marine --

Blessings flowing your way,
~ LadyX

[LadyX]

On the lighter side..:))

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Church Feud

There was a feud between the Pastor and the Choir Director of The Hicksville Southern Baptist Church.

It seems the first hint of trouble came when the Pastor preached on "dedicating yourselves to service" and the Choir Director chose to sing: "I Shall Not Be Moved."

Trying to believe it was a coincidence, the Pastor put the incident behind him. The next Sunday he preached on "giving."
Afterwards, the choir squirmed as the director led them in the hymn: "Jesus Paid It All."

By this time, the Pastor was losing his temper. Sunday Morning attendance swelled as the tension between the two built.

A large crowd showed up the next week to hear his sermon on "The Sin of Gossiping,"
Would you believe the Choir Director selected: "I Love To Tell The Story?"

There was no turning back. The following Sunday the Pastor told the congregation that unless something changed, he was considering resignation.
The entire church gasped when the Choir Director led them in: "Why Not Tonight?"

Truthfully, no one was surprised when the Pastor resigned a week later, explaining that Jesus had led him there and Jesus was leading him away.
The Choir Director could not resist: "What A Friend We Have In Jesus."

[Txsleuth]

I don't know about TC----

but your descripton of your "joy" ride, sure did my soul some good. You are very good at giving "soul medicine", LadyX.

It brought back some wonderful memories, as your stories seem to do. My mother's parents had a farm in Iowa/Missouri (it straddled the state's line). When I was 3-12 we went there very summer for two weeks...

It was so wonderful, watching Grandpa milking the cows, but my favorite was watching him use the milk separator....it was just the neatest thing. I never did figure out how a machine could figure out which part was milk, and which part was cream!!!

Then, we would go to the garden, and pick huge fresh strawberries for breakfast...yummy!!!

I could go on and on, but unlike you, I am not a story-teller. I have a feeling though, that I will be taking a "joy ride" in my head tonight while going to sleep.

I wish I could have been with you today. I would have loved to ride and just look at the world as you do. Surely, God's sun does shine down on you, sweet lady.

Have a good evening, LadyX.

Thank you for another story.

sleuth

[Diver Dave]

Sure enjoyed the "Joy Ride" with ya, LadyX. Gonna have to take one of those off the beaten path drives soon.

Da Boys are gonna go cruisin' again tonight with the Beach Boys blastin' away on the tape deck.

[LadyX]

" I never did figure out how a machine could figure out which part was milk, and which part was cream!!!"

One of those so intriguing Mysteries of Life!!

When I was a little girl in Coral Gables, Florida, one of my special *chores* was to go out the kitchen door, and from the step, bring in the glass bottle(s) of milk, twisted wire holding firmly the cap over the bottle.
Each household made weekly orders for the amount and frequency of doorstep delivery, depending upon size of family and their needs; a milkman with truck making the rounds.

Another chore was going to the driveway to get the daily newspaper flung there - Sunday was a race to get it before my two older sisters, thus able to get first "dibs" on the Sunday funnies!

At 9 1/2, though, Life Changed, moving to a rural setting and having our own milk cow...learned how to milk Bessie myself - help Webb in the 4-acre garden - fish in the canals with him with a bamboo pole, hook with minnow - and often caught up 6 to 9 lb. bass!!

When I used the fancy rods and reels we had purchased, with brightly colored "lures," fishing usually resulted in 'Zilch'..:))
Webb knew that, and just when the watermelons were at their peak to place in the pond to cool...and...

Obviously, I have been greatly blessed with Good Lessons...

[LadyX]

We all adore Bailey and Jack, Dave -- and I believe TC needs to see the

"How I Celebrated The Fourth of July"
photographs of 'The Boyz'..:))

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[Ah, the indignities of Life with Dave..:))]

[Txsleuth]

LOL---Both my daughter and my son have Golden Retrievers, but I don't think either Cisco or Nico have fancy 4th of July headbands!!!!

Just too, cute!!!

[LadyX]

If you thought that was cute. have a look at Dave's

Two Grandsons amd Friend - -

SHARING --

[LadyX]

After midnight here, TC...
This is a picture of clouds at night

as a lead-in for Sistah Nan if she comes along
with her usual Night Shift post...

Rest well - sleep well --
dream well...

(if you are fortunate, you will hear a DI calling cadence
for your sleeptime lullaby..:))

[WVNan]

Sending cowboy prayers a bit early from the NIGHT SHIFT. Be well T.C.

[WVNan]

Ha! Smoochies Sistah. Great minds.....etc.

[amom]

A little late but with a lot of amens.

Thanks again for holding the night shift.

[LadyX]

"Ha! Smoochies Sistah. Great minds.....etc."

Incredible, isn't it?!
I posted the lead-in -- you came along 53 seconds later with yours!!

Some 400 or so miles apart; but never really apart...

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G'day, TC -- keep in mind

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[El Gato]

My mother's parents had a farm in Iowa/Missouri (it straddled the state's line). When I was 3-12 we went there very summer for two weeks...

It was so wonderful, watching Grandpa milking the cows, but my favorite was watching him use the milk separator....it was just the neatest thing. I never did figure out how a machine could figure out which part was milk, and which part was cream!!!

Then, we would go to the garden, and pick huge fresh strawberries for breakfast...yummy!!! Sounds pretty much like my grandparents farm, not far from there in southeast Nebraska. They had red and black raspberries in addition to the strawberries. Grandma's garden also had grapes, sweet corn, dill, cabbage, lettuce, radishes,carrots, asparagus and tomatoes. Grandpa would plow it up every spring for here (not the parts with the perennial plants of course) but from there on it was Grandma's. She also kept the chickens, both for eggs and for eating. She had apple, cherry, pear and apricot trees as well. If the world, as we knew it, had ended at the time of the Cuban missile crises, we would not have starved, if only we could get the 35 miles to Grandma's house. :) (Provided of course the Russians didn't nuke the Atlas site about 5 miles from there.)

[El Gato]

Obviously, I have been greatly blessed with Good Lessons...

Indeed you have Marine, indeed you have.

[El Gato]

One of those so intriguing Mysteries of Life!!

Being an engineer, this old Cat knows how the separator works. But I won't tell and spoil the fun of not knowing. :)

[LadyX]

"But I won't tell and spoil the fun of not knowing. :)"

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Aha!!
Miss Maggie here from Romper Room --
in my Magic Mirror,
I *see* El Gato!!

[Txsleuth]

My grandmother had a huge garden, also. They had chickens, and pigs (we would recoil when we saw/smelled the slop that the pigs were fed, LOL), and of course cows.

The driveway to the house had huge mulberry trees covering it, and we has purple feet from going barefoot! Also, out in the cow pastures, there were gooseberries bushes, and every year, my grandfather would bet us a nickel that we couldn't eat a gooseberry without making a face. I NEVER, EVER, was able to eat one with out puckering up! LOL

You are right about having enough food. I don't know what they had to got to the store for, except coffee, cereal and such...they raised their own meat and vegetables!!!

The corn fields had watermelon plants planted between the rows...they used every inch of the land.

Isn't it fun reminiscing? Also, on my part, a little sad. I have always lived in the "country" until I got married, and I miss it.