FOUND THE CRAZY GLUE REMOVER

OK who was the wise guy that poured crazy glue all over the rocks at the Wichita Mountains? We were finally able to get down just in time for our cruise.....see you in a year

WELL...Hello everyone. just thought I would take a trip to blogsville. Carmen and I took Mischa to the Wichita Mountains on Labor Day. Jeremy and Kyle were in Porter with Meemaw Cain. The buffalo where everywhere and so were the prairie dogs. Mishca was going crazy trying to get to them. Mount Scott was beautiful and the weather was balmy. Made for a great picnic. We even found the place where the young married folks went and had a picnic about 20 years ago. So, Carmen and I ate our Turkey sandwich and fruit there. Hope you like the pics. This morning we heard something wimpering out side. Carmen found the cutest little butterscotch colored female lab. I went around the neighborhood but no one seems to know who it belongs to. It is very clean and smells like it had just had and bath. I think it was put in our yard by someone that did not want it. Our neighbor down the street may take it if the owner cannot be found. Mischa though we had gotten her a new toy....

PEDULLA TIME

OK,,,, CAMERON, THIS IS JUST FOR U....DROOL TIME

KYLE MADE IT!!!! HE IS AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AT TBC AS "THE EVANGELIST KYLE CAIN..JOHNATHAN GREEN'S COUSIN. HE WILL BE HOME AFTER ABOUT 30 MORE DAYS, TRYING TO SATISFY HIS JOB REQUIREMENTS SO HE CAN GET BACK SOME OF HIS TUITION. WE ARE TRYING TO GET THE ROCK YOU WIDGET THING DOWN SO YOU CAN SEE THE PICS. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE THAT CAME TO TBC TO THE GRADUATION. BRO AND SIS ELMS WE LOVE YA'LL. MORE TO COME

Having worked all day as so many of us do year in and year out, I was reminded of why....Taxes!! Just kidding. I am always glad as grim as it may sound for this time of year because it means that I am able to work and want to work. My father, who was helping me at his home right after the Katrina disaster, put it into perspective once more. I was using a chainsaw to cut up the trees that had fallen around their home. There was dad in his eighty's and with all the complications from Parkinsons to stroke and congestive heart failure picking up the logs and limbs and putting them in a brush pile to be burned. As we stopped to get a drink that mom had brought to us, my father said "I enjoy hard work, it makes me feel good and gives me a sense of purpose every day that God has granted to me." Dad worked one job all of his life. dedicated to it's purpose. To provide for his family, friends, even strangers and his God. He is gone now and I miss him ever so, and he would not come back for anything. What caught my simple thinking was just part of that phrase "Sense of purpose ...That God has granted". When God gave us this wonderful gift of the Holy Ghost, Our sense of purpose Should have changed. Who are we to try to change it back. Every service should be solely purposed to equip us for hard work in the kingdom of God, through Praise and worship, giving and Ministering to those in the sanctuary walls and even more inportantly those outside our walls. O. K., It's like going to the gym and just sitting around talking and not getting into the workout and expecting results of physical change and strenght. I look forward at every service, to exercise my right to give it all I have. Creating a sense of purpose that will equip me for the more excellent rewards and challenges on this earth...Seeing souls continually added to the church daily. It ain't money...we will have it and spend it and want more...same for cars and clothing and .... It's still about what God has divined in us to do when he granted us pardon. Let's all come together every service and give it all we have and Watch God grant our petitions. My God is still a rewarder of those that (still)dilligently seek him.

INVITE!!! INVITE!!! INVITE!!! Word of mouth is still the best avertising tool in the world. Do no expect people to read our minds....open yer mouths and invite. Basic and fundamental elements, be friendly, set an example of Godliness, be consistent, oh, and be friendly again....smile always. INVITE!!!! When your guest comes to church, Intorduce them to everyone from young to elderly. Pay close attention to how kind the elderly treats them...and learn to adapt to it. Everyone wants to feel acceptance even among strangers....

Today was a pretty slow day at work. The band UIL concert and sight reading contests kept most of the staff out of the store. So after work Carmen and I went to Waurika to Bills Catfish and snagged some large fried shrimp. It is always worth the drive and we are always stuffed. Learned a very unique thing about humming birds that I might share with you, If Sis Elms has a notion to let me share it with you. Anyway, we are finishing up on our income tax (yuck). Anyone willing to donate to the Cain Income Tax Relief fund?

Mischa is losing her winter coat by the handfuls. I told Carmen that I was going outside to pluck the dog. Mischa loves when I pull the globs of hair off of her. Our back yard looks like a cottonwood tree exploded in it. For those that don't know, Mischa is our almost 2year old absolute white Siberian Huskie.

Just a great picture for the Pentecostal GQ magazine....Easter 2004 Isn't God Great??!!!!!!