THINGS CHANGE ALL THE SAME! - Just A Minute Radio for Tuesday - 110531

Wonderful Spring – coming into Summer – day here in the upstate. Hope you are enjoying it too.

 

Yesterday was quite warm… putting on a griller made me sweat the more…but the results were OK.  However, I couldn’t get the flame low enough to cook the brats and steak patties and hot dogs slow enough – but we were all hungry enough I suppose…Still we had things left over – all our invited guests couldn’t make it… so we ate it all up anyway!  [No… actually there was a lot left over… and we had a healthy meal…with a lot of cooperation and not many bugs at all.]  I don’t think that will hold up over the summer… but it was a nice start.

 

We have grandsons around… they do lots of good stuff… cut the grass, clean the gutters… and here we go into trying to do some landscaping on a perilously thin budget.  But the Lord knows we want to keep HIS creation nice and tidied up. One of these boys… a nice tall thin one… thinks he might like farming. So he’s getting a bit of a taste for it this summer as he did last. My own opinion (my Dad was a farmer and loved it… more than I did) is it’s nice but hot work. And nowadays there’s so much in the way of fresh stuff from good gardens… at low prices. (I don’t think I could outsmart the squirrels for $0.25 an ear of sweet corn.)  I’m glad we’re in the corn season!  And I was thankful for the excellent strawberries.  And it looks like a wonderful year for peaches… all varieties – plus  Muscatine’s, and watermelons and all that… whew… it’s a wonder I don’t get fat!

 

Well… at least good news on the garden front… even if the rivers are slow in receding – and the damage in human life as well as to property and spirit… well it’s just amazing from the TV coverage. Praise the Lord we have had as little death and damage as we have… It doesn’t compare really with Haiti and Japan and some other places…. Not to minimize people’s losses.  I’m just pleased that our warning system – as imperfect as it is – is getting better and we’re getting better at paying attention to it.

 

There are still things that can’t be ‘managed’ like floods and avalanches etc.  But with these the Lord gets our attention and gets us to paying attention to the things that are eternal and immortal. It’s a very sad thing to see an elderly man cry and just look devastated after the storm passes. You see something like that in war pictures… and those are man-made horrors.  Oh Lord – spare us if you can from man’s inhumanity to man – and thank you for giving us the opportunity to share in the recovery efforts where we are able.

 

When I was 1 or 2 years old my folks lived in Bassett, VA.  And the hills and valleys there apparently channel water into homes and factories and all.  I remember nothing of it – but I was there when the rivers overflowed and made everything a danger and difficulty.  It was before flood control became such a thing – before the WPA and the Tenn Valley Authority…. There are a lot of changes that have taken place in our land – for better we think. But then we see so much of our ‘stuff’ is perishable – earthly houses can be gone in a matter of seconds – and how thankful are those who survive the crisis. Thank the Lord for the Red Cross Volunteers – and the never ending supply of folks who are willing to spend and be spent on behalf of others whom they do not know – but want to help anyway.

 

How kind of the Lord to place so many among us. May HE be glorified – and may we all be concerned about one another as God meant us to be.  May the Lord bless and richly keep you from all harm… IN HIM.

 

Barbara and Jack Buttram

May the Lord be your individual strength and steele. Amen!

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THINGS CHANGE ALL THE SAME!

            Just a Minute: Sarah and Todd Palin just bought a $1.8 million dollar house in Scottsdale, Arizona.  But -- I’m told that’s normal – lots of cold Alaskans buy a warm winter place.   Scottsdale hits a 106 degrees in summer – easy.

            Of course we might think that’s a polit… Uh …not supposed to say that word.  Uh… this is a non-political – ah --  sight-seeing tour of the lower 48… beginning in Washington DC … with Veterans … riding from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Memorial.  You and I know it’s not political… Riiiight? It’s a free country -- when you’ve signed as many books as she has… it’s OK to take the kids on a little tour to say… New Hampshire!

            Oh -- the windscreen on the Harley does have a picture of ‘George W’ – an the label asks: “Miss me?”  Wonder what that means? Oh … coincidence … John Huntsman former Ambassador to China… also rides motorcycles -- around Washington – he was Mr. Obama’s Ambassador to China. Nothin’ political ‘bout that. The AP says she’s just showing she can stir up a buzz even without being a candidate. I’d never give a thought that it was political – would you?

            <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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