New Pics

I thought that I would share some new pictures with you.

Mia & Eisely

Amy & Mia

Eisely

Matthew McCurley & Mia

Becky and Amy went to Colorado to see her family, they took some good photo's.

The girls

Kenny & Verna

The Three Sisters

Colorful Colorado

NOT SO DANDELION!

I mowed my yard yesterday morning, three hours of hard work, looked back at my handiwork and was well pleased with the results. Took a shower, was leaving for some home visits and looked and saw a dandelion waving his long arm at me. It was as if it was saying "mow me if you want to but I grow back real fast." I left it because without the right spray it is pointless to go and break it off again, now if I was to dig it up.......
All too often our lives are like a yard, it can be really beautiful to look at, maybe even win the yard of the week award, but a fresh cut yard can hide a lot of weeds. Like my dandelion, it was there before I mowed, it was there after I mowed, it couldn't be seen at least not until it started waving hello.
In our own lives we try to hide our sin, but unless we let Jesus remove it it will resurface and mess everything up. Numbers 32:23 says, "be sure your sin will catch up with you." (HCSB) What think we have hidden, all too often others see all too well. Don't carry unconfessed sin in your life, it will pull you down, it will destroy you, and it's never as hidden as you think. God always knows!

GRADUATION DAY

We drove to Stephenville this past Friday to watch my nephew Levi graduate from Tarleton State University on Saturday. Amy and Zach rode with Becky and I, we had a great time and got to watch Levi graduate. Way to go, Levi!!!!

Levi and Braci, soon to be Mr. & Mrs.

Levi, Amy and Shawn, three close cousins forever

Mia & Eisley

So we got to keep Mia and Eisley this past weekend, we drove to Amarillo and picked them up so Jody and Sarah could have a weekend on a marriage retreat. We have keep Mia many times, but this was the first time that we have ever kept little Eisley. It was a blast. We put both girls in the same bedroom to sleep and it was fun standing by the door listening to them. They both go to bed so well, no fussing, no fighting, just "it bedtime" and they lay right down. Sometimes we could hear Mia talking to Eisley, reassuring her, and one time I caught her singing to Eisley. Both girls had fun at Mamaw and Papa's house, but they sure were excited to see mom and dad.
Thanks Jody and Sarah for trusting us with them. And thank you Lord for spouses that you gave to our kids, we now have 4 kids (no in-laws here), and thank you Lord for grandkids.

Mia (wearing her eye tech) and Jack

Eisley

Eisley and Mia playing

Uncle's

I got to visit with my two uncles who are still alive on my dad's side today, Joe and Wayne. Both of these men are older than my dad, both are alive and my dad isn't. Seeing them and talking to them reminded me of how much I miss my dad, my dad passed away in October of 07. He began smoking when he was 16, my uncle's never did, they are getting up there in years and showing it, but they are alive. Daddy was only 76 when he passed away after being on hospice for 3 years. We watched him die a slow death, watched him go from being a hardworking man who could do anything, a man who was one of the best cowboys I have ever known or seen, a man who could fix anything, a man who could drive trucks, tractors, heavy equipment, a man who loved to spend time with his kids and grandkids and great-grandkids, to a man who spent his last months in a hospital bed at the nursing home.

I sound like I'm rambling on and on. But seeing my uncle's today just brought out a longing for my dad. I miss you daddy.

Leon & Winna Wilson

(my parents)

My brother's, sister's and parents.

from l to r

Jan, Van, me, Dan & Ann, and my parents.

Family is a good thing, I thank God that I am one of 5 kids, and I thank Him for the family my wife and I have.

Let me know about your family.

Grandkids

I am looking forward to this weekend, we get to keep our grandkids. Jody and Sarah are going on a marriage retreat with their church and we get to spoil, I mean keep our grandgirls. I heard on the news that the mother can help choose the sex of the baby. If the prospective mom eats breakfast every morning before she gets prego, and if she eats food like oatmeal for breakfast, she is more likely to have a boy. But, we have grandgirls, and grand they are, and we are about to add another grandgirl to the mix with Zoe. So until and after we get some grandboys, I will continue to love and be loved on by my girls. After all, is it not every mans dream to have a house full of beautiful girls? Here are some recent pics of my girls and family.

Smile Jody smile, hey, is the sun bright?? Everybody open your eyes!

Theory of Knowledge, part 2

Well, I had absolutely no comments on the Theory of Knowledge post. So that can only mean the either no one reads this or everyone is waiting with baited breath to see what answers I wrote, so here they are....

Theory of Knowledge

1. When should we trust our senses to give us truth?

The only truth our senses can give us is the truth of sight, sound, taste and feel, and then what they sense isn’t always correct. Sometimes what we think we see, hear, feel or taste isn’t right, therefore it isn’t truth. There is absolute truth and everything else measures against it. That absolute truth is God and His Son Jesus. Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (NIV). Doing something just because it feels right will get us into trouble, we must know truth and trust Him. We can do this by knowing His Word. Senses will mislead us, as in the case of two eyewitness of the same accident trusting their senses of sight and sound and yet having two different stories. Yet if a video replay were shown both would have some element of truth to their story, but both would have some elements of falsehood. Trusting our senses for truth will let us down and disappoint us.

2. “Seek simplicity and distrust it” (Alfred North Whitehead). Is this always good advice for a knower?

If you are going to distrust it, why seek it? Just because something is simple does not make it wrong, and just because it is complicated does not make it right. Jesus said in Matthew 11:29 “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,” (NIV). This is a statement that would be made by a rabbi to a prospective student. And it was an invitation for that student to come and learn. When an ox was in the yoke it did not have to worry about where it was going, all it had to do was walk where it was lead. When a student was taught by a rabbi he did not have to worry, just learn, this was simple.

When we are a knower, it should make some things in life simpler. If our knowledge makes something in life simpler, should we distrust what we know? We should always be learner, but that doesn’t make what we know wrong!

3. “There can be no knowledge without emotion…until we have felt the force of the knowledge, it is not ours” (adapted from Arnold Bennett). Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge and emotion.

Being a minister I am passionate about what I know. If we know something and have no emotion about it, it is simply head knowledge, just facts that we can quote; like the answers on a test that we have memorized and as soon as the test is over we forget it all. But when we know something and emotion is attached to it, we know that it is in the core of our being. Like a salesman that is really sold on the product he is selling, he is excited about that product; but one that isn’t will have a hard time selling anyone on his product.

Find a person's passion and you will find their knowledge and emotion entwined in such a manner that you could never unravel nor untangle them.

Now that you have read my answers, let me hear some of yours.
until next time.....