Laurenda--that's gettin' too dad-gum spooky! Where you found my name--I suppose it comes complete with Social Security numbers and everthing, right??!!!!!!---I have a deacon workin' on our web page--not sure of the address myself but I will work on a picture--I'm from the old school and will give it the best shot I can to upgrade the system--I hope that deacon don't put nothin' on that site that'll embarrass poor ole Blackbird--I want him to post my sermons--but I bet he won't do it until I beg him to!
Post my web page addressso I can check it out, will ya??!
Sherrie--No worries, dear! I remember when I was in college there was this girl who use to sit next to me in Anatomy class--she was in nursin' school--I was in Physical Education--anyway, we'd clown around in class(thanks to her I had to go through that class twice!!)--we'd chit chat and stuff--well, out of the blue one day she says, "Lets go to the Dairy Queen and get some coffee and we can talk there!!"
Well, Ole Blackbird is gullable(and also interested!) so we go to the DQ--get the picture now--I ain't "messin' around" with nobody--gonna save my purity for marriage---anyway, this girl is extremely attractive--I ain't believin' she'd be there with me--ought to have been somebody else--now, stay with me--
She starts in with this sob story--she had been married but her husband had been killed in a car crash--she doesn't have any children--it had been 3 years since the wreck--and she was interested in going out--sooooooo----
Stay with me--the followin' Sunday I'm at church--the Music/Youth Director's wife(who is also in nursin' school) sees me in the foyer of the church--she motions for me to come over--she has something she wants to tell me!!
Her--"Have you been talkin' to Karen?"(I have since forgotten her real name--but this was a real, real event in Blackbird's long tenure as a human being!!)
Me--"Karen who?"
Her--"Don't play stupid, David! Tell me, have you?"
Me--"Yeh, I have!"
Her--"She wants you to go out with her?? Doesn't she??"
Me--"Matter of factly, yea!"
Her--"OH, NO!! David! She's married! She told you her husband died in a car wreck--didn't she??"
I'm startin' to get the message! It didn't take Blackbird long to put the jigsaw puzzle together!
Her--"She's messin' around on her husband! That's what she's tellin' all the men she meets! Its her pick up line! David, her husband will kill you!!"
Lookin' back at it now--I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for Godly women who helped me to see the Godly truth---saved me from a potential bullet!!
To make a long story long--ole Blackbird has been caught in the same predickament that a lot of folks get caught in--I just "brushed it off" and moved on--I never saw that lady again--thank the Lord Jesus!
Sister, I guess what Ole Blackbird is sayin' is this--in your position as a single again widow--just stay "fervently in love" with the Lord Jesus Christ--and He will direct your path--He'll see you through--you get to a lonely spot in your life--you still have the Lord Jesus Christ--you still have your children! You still have those Grandkids and you still have your board buddys!! God bless your heart, Sister!
Now, rsr and Ninety--nine!! I wear a 17 in the neck, actually! And remember!! Every Sunday I go "bear huntin' with a switch!!" You'll have to take that into consideration!!
Diane---what hair I have left at 43 years of age--is quickly, quickly turnin' gray---too many Southern Baptist "Showdown's"--I've lost quiet a few of those, too!!
Your Southern Baptist preachin', bullet dodgin' buddy!
Blackbird
