Ok I have missed the past couple of months on my reminder and I have now had several of you tell me that I was a bad boy and needed to get with it. So here it is... whispering only one more month! :)
As I pondered what I would write with only one more month to go I guess I am at a loss for words (yeah right)... actually it seems that I am often at a loss for time rather than a loss for words so let me just say at the beginning of this little note that I have no idea how long it will turn out to be so be prepared to scroll down and find a simple well wish for the Thanksgiving holiday or by the same token it might be a really long one too. If anyone sees or finds a method for me to speak into my computer and it writing it down rather than me typing it, my monthly letter would be much easier to write each month. Actually my typing skills are not bad but by the end of a long letter I can feel my age in my wrists, I am sure I am slouching incorrectly when I type but I am a long way from Mrs. Schnitzels high school typing class and I don't remember what she said...
Since I last wrote I have been to; Springerville, Arizona; Colstrip, Montana; Schroeder, Minnesota and had swine flu with the rest of my family. The swine flu was not as bad as all the hype that you see on the news, if you get it just plan a couple of days off of work because you don't feel really good and get a bunch of Little House on the Prairie videos that you watched when you were a little kid.
Does anyone have a good method of avoiding so many repairs on cars, besides buying a new one and having a car payment?
I was pondering the other day and I was going through some old memories they were flashing through my mind actually... have you ever been in a life threatening situation and another situation flashes through your mind, kind of like your life flashing before you but one scene at a time? The situation I was in was occurring as I was driving down an old two lane country road, not too small because it did have a double yellow line painted on it... Anyway I looked up and there was a car barrelling down on me driving down the very center of the road, I was not going to be able to get around them and so what would you do?
That was when a previous situation flashed through my mind... I was driving back from seeing my fiance' like an eternity ago, 1992 or something like that. It was unusual because I would typically leave from Beaumont to head back to school on a Sunday evening but this time was different I stayed over Sunday with her grandparents and left in the morning to make it back to classes. It was a 4 hour drive so I had to leave at like 4am to make a 8am class. I am not saying I was smart back then and if anyone shows this email to either of my kids you'll be sorry, I will egg your house or something.
Anyway it was dark like it often is at 4am and I was just outside of Beaumont coming into a long sloping curve. I looked up and there were two sets of headlights coming right at me. It did not concern me any because we were just coming into the curve, I had driven this route numerous times no big deal. Did I mention that I was also tired, that is not unusual for me to be tired at 4am either. Anyway back to the headlights... as I continued to watch the headlights that were coming at me it finally dawned on me that what I was seeing was not two cars coming into the turn but rather two semi's side by side with one passing the other. The trucks were 50 yards in front of me when I saw them and I had absolutely no time to react... it was a good thing that I did not have time to react because just before we hit, the semi in my lane veered over onto the shoulder and they passed me at 65mph one on each side of me. I continue to thank God that I did not have time to react because if I had reacted and gone to the shoulder myself we would have collided, kind of like a game of chicken but with the odds severely against me surviving. Suffice it to say when it dawned on me just how close I had come to being one of those bugs on the radiator, I pulled over and began hyperventilating (you never have a paper bag when you need it).
Back to the present... what would you have done? I decided to see if I could get their attention so I pulled over into their lane and began swerving like a drunk, boy did they move over quickly and get back where they belonged as they passed they were as far to their side as possible without going into the ditch.
It's always kind of sobering to remember that death may be right around the corner. I have several friends who are very close to death this Thanksgiving season yet they are thankful for their family and friends. They are pleased that they know Christ and continue to tell others about Him even as they are approaching death. Yes we need to have a place to live and food to eat but I hope that is not all we are about, we can't take it with us so maybe I ought to share a bit more and hoard a little less.
Hope you all remember the reason for the season died so that you can live when you die (boy that's an odd sentence). You are going to die so give a little more of it way before you go, I'll try to do the same!
Hey do you have a close call story? I would love to hear about it... have you ever had a bullet whiz by your ear? It might have been a close one but if it missed by an inch or a mile now you can laugh at it because you are still here so be glad. Some of you military folks may have some stories to tell, don't tell me if it is classified information.
Only one more month to go all ya'll! Wooooooooo Whooooooooo.... I'm singin' Jingle Bells in the shower.
TTFN,
KS.
