Sabbath Afternoon
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Nothing-ok, phone conversations in the background
Topic: Camp-meetings
Wow, this is the last day of Camp-meeting. Unfortunately I have a rough time making all the meetings, but those I managed to get to were excellent. Elder Dupres (is that how you spell that name?) gave an excellent mini-series about Esther. Today's service was on the topic of Christ on the cross, and the wonder being not that He did not come off the cross, but that hearing the taunts of the crowd, He refused to use His power against them. As I was leaving camp-meeting this afternoon, I spoke with a good friend of mine whom I have known for many years. Sometimes without realizing it, you begin praising God's blessings, and realize that others have the same experience, and that God's blessings are there for the asking. Then you find yourself counselling one another, and comparing notes that say to ask God for BIG blessings. Let us all be in heaven, God willing, and let none of us get there and find a box of unused blessings that were there for us.
On another vein of thought, I have to find groomsmen for my future wedding. Here's what the game goes like: call my brother, who says, "have to talk to my wife, but we'll try" talk to a good friend, "have to talk to my wife, but I have a brother down there, so don't count me out for getting there" Ok, two talked to, three more to go. I believe marriage is going to be great, how can it not be, with God at the heart of the relationship? My nephew's fiance tells me that her future mother-in-law has told her that she has to read four books before they get married. I have a better idea, find the oldest couple you can, who have the longest marriage, (and the happiest) you can think of, and ask them what works for them. Don't ask your parents. As Bill Cosby said, they won't tell you the details. Other people will.

Friday is great
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: bird songs--from outside my window
Topic: God's blessings
This is Friday and I'm loving it. Of course a great deal of this involves the fact that my fiance is here. Wow, it's hard to believe: Tuesday morning she was my girlfriend on her way up from Tennessee, and by that evening, I proposed, she said yes, and 40 seconds later she was wearing my ring. Yes, it really is as simple as all that, and I'm the happiest guy alive. The best part of being with Amanda is that she is an unmitigated blessing. Really, she doesn't play games, she's Godly, kind, loving, and she listens. Come to think of it, I pray each day to be as good a man to her as she is woman to me. To those of you reading this, I say that there are no best 'ways' to find a mate, there is only one 'best' way, and that is to pray for God to bring someone to you, and leave it up to Him.