WE'RE MOVIN' ON -- 2009 HERE WE COME

Howdy folks….it’s Wednesday again… and the last of them for 2008.  So let’s all stand up and cheer for making it this far along the Pilgrim Road.

 

Homer still thinks he has a job coming in Washington… and who knows he may get lucky – or unlucky as the case may be. I know I’ve been spared some tight spots when I *didn’t* get a job I thought I really wanted. Looking back, and seeing what I was providentially hindered from getting into… Whew… how glad I am that the song and the Bible says HIS eye is on the Sparrow… He has kept my feet away from many a slippery slope Praise the Lord.

 

Now we move to a new year… My Sunday School Teacher this past weekend said he had given up making New Year’s Resolutions a ‘long’ time ago – and then modified it to say … well it wasn’t that long ago… but he wasn’t doing well with them anyway…

 

I do think it’s good to keep a journal. I just find it hard to do. But when I have kept a fairly detailed record… and go back later to see what happened then… I find it quite instructive. I know quite a few people whose prayer lives are enriched through the journals they’ve kept over the years.  Makes me wish I was more orderly, diligent and could find things when I think I’ve put them away.                   

 

So I suppose resolution – coupled with getting rid of procrastination… well for me that would be a welcome change.  And you know who is responsible for most of that?  Obviously it is me… I can’t shuffle those responsibilities off on anyone else. C.S. Lewis was one of the most diligent letter writers as well as scholarly and literary writer too… I’m often amazed at the body of the written words he turned out. Malcom Muggeridge was another… But someone cast in the mold of Mark Twain… wrote… inspiration is really about 90 percent perspiration. Putting your seat in the seat of the chair, in front of the keyboard, and going at it diligently is the proper course -- and of course that’s correct.

 

I wish you well in the coming year – and the blessings of the Lord to be upon your home and family. God bless you all. Please be in touch.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM for 2009…

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WE’RE MOVIN’ ON – 2009 HERE WE COME

Homer: Just a Minute --   Mr. Jack – hit’s the nite b’fore Crh… Oh I almos said Christmas – hits New Yars Eve.

Jack: You’re right Mr. Leadfooter.

Homer: Why you goin’ formal on me, Mr. Jack – You allus called me Homer.

Jack: Well it’s not everybody I know that has a job lined up with the coming Administration.

MizP: Oh, Homer, do you have one… really? I never heard th’ finish of what’s a-happenin’         

Homer: Well – hit sorta looks like hit Miz Pearl – But I cain’t be sure with everbody bein’ in Hawa-ye an all.

Jack: But surely the Chief of Staff has been in contact with you by now.

BB: Yeah -- Homer – surely -- th’ fellers at the Bait Shop an Sushi Bar is a rootin’ fer ya.

Homer: Oh yeah – that’s nice… now that the lake has come up a little Ah’m glad th’ fishin’s started again.

MizP:  But ifn’ you’s goin’ away soon Homer – we gone miss you.

Homer: Oh… I don’t reckon hit’ll be reel quick… you know … security check an all.

BB: Oh yeah… I hadn’t thot about tha-ut. But whut air we gonna do without you?

Homer: Aw… that’s reely thouty of you Billy-Bob..

MizP: Ah thank so too Mr. Beelie.

Jack: I need to tell you folks about some schedule changes that are coming.

Homer: You ain’t goin’ off’n the air are you?

Jack: No – but at least for the time being we’re goin’ to cut down JUST A MINUTE to Monday’s and Fridays.

MizP: Whut about usn’s on Wednesdays?

Jack: The good news is we’ll have a bit more time to talk when we’re all here on Wednesdays.

BB: Ah’m shore glad ta' heer tha-ut – Some Wednesday’s I kin hardly git a word in edgeways.

Homer: Yeah – an some of our people say we tawk too fast and they miss what we’re a gittin at.

Jack: True. So we’re going to try and correct that.

MizP: But we air still goin’ to be on – on Wednesdays…

Jack: That’s the plan.

BB: An… n’matter where you air ya kin git hit on th’ Internet.

Jack: I think a lot of our folks don’t realize that.

MizP: Well – let’s git busy an tell ‘em.

Jack: OK.. We’ll do that Miz Pearl – and before we run out of time we want to wish every one

A blessed New Year – and God’s leadership through out 2009. <> I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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