Sunday Superman!

It was good to be in the House of the Lord this morning! Our Sunday School lesson was in James today and I truly love that power packed little book in the New Testament! When James came to preach, people listened to what he had to say. He wasn't afraid to tell it like it was and didn't cut anyone any slack! We need more preachers like him these days.....preachers that aren't afraid to step on toes!

After church services, we came home and ate a bite of dinner and headed to Tarkington to look at a tree Jamie was trying to take down. He was hired to cut it but after he trimmed all the limbs off, it became shockingly evident how badly this tree was leaning over this guy's neighbor's house. Jamie wanted his daddy to look at it and see if he thought it could be taken down. I rode out with them and made Alfred PROMISE me that if he thought it was risky at all, he would not try it! When we drove up I couldn't believe it! It looked like it could blow over on the neighbor's house if a big wind came through! I just KNEW Alfred would say NO WAY! I JUST KNEW IT! Well guess what? He said, "Yeah.....I think I can do it!" DO WHAT?!?! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME? ARE YOU CRAZY OR JUST PLAIN STUPID? He just said, "stupid is as stupid does!" Actually, after Alfred said he thought he could do it, we didn't say any of that other stuff! But I WAS surely thinking it!!! I sat in my truck and watched from out on the street as they got all the chains and comealongs in place! I had been praying and praying but when Alfred fired up the chainsaw, I began this ritual chant! YIKES! I was mortified at what I was witnessing! The (smarter than most) neighbor was out there PAINTING HIS HOUSE! All the while I'm looking at him thinking......you're about to die so just keep on painting bro! His wife was sitting on the back patio knitting or something.......were they just oblivious to the impending danger? I chanted some more! Ok....I've watched all of this I can! I'm going to throw up!!! I have to get out of here! Honestly I was getting so sick at my stomach so I left! I went back out to this little store on Hwy 105 and put some gas in the truck. Then I just drove around and around in that neighborhood, watching for the firetrucks, ambulances, rescue vehicles, jaws of life, police, FBI, news helicopters, Quanel X......I just knew they were in route! FINALLY, I made myself drive back down to the house......in the distance I could see Alfred standing out by the road. Was he trying to flee the scene? Did I need to slow down just enough for him to jump into the truck? Was I now driving an escape vehicle? Would I be an accomplice? Oh, now I'm really going to throw up! Wait a minute!!! That tree is on the ground! It is laying in the ONLY, and I mean ONLY, place it could have possibly fallen without doing some sho-nuff serious damage! HOLY COW! Who is this man I married? Does he secretly wear a blue t-shirt with a big red "S" on the front? How in the world did he do this? Jamie was a proud young man and was grinning from ear to ear! You would have had to see it to believe it! I drove off saying, I KNEW HE COULD DO IT! :o But seriously.....it must have been the chanting.......

Need a tree cut......? Don't call us cause we ain't comin'! God bless...................