Pain is a good indication that you're still alive and you're not dead yet. So even though your body aches you still got to get things done.

Being an ordained minister I have worked and served young people perform funerals and especially as a young minister I've always enjoyed working with the Christian youth summer camp in my hometown of Wichita Falls Texas. I have had story after story from young women in my little 10 to 12 circle of kids that I was responsible for it during this camp. Oh the horror stories of some of the young ladies who are in one parent home of a father that's a drunk and a sexually abusive torrent, I would call child protective services and ask has they ever checked into this young y's story of abuse, people can say this is being a nosy preacher but first I got to answer the God first what would Jesus do if I'm going to serve you and serve young people how can I sit in there and teach a lesson on helping my brothers and sisters are these lost young kids who never so much is heard the name of Jesus and salvation because they're sure not taught this at home many of them get a little life to God during this summer camp, and I have met some of these young ladies that who have become young adult s themselves at youth rallies that me and some of my gospel singing friends put on can I have some of these young women come up and give me a hug and thank me that I ignored there please to ignore their sexual abuse and battery at the hands of a father's evil hands.

Of all the funerals I filled in for the lead pastor on a few occasions where he had more on his plate than he could handle at one time. It always seems that this side of the in-laws and that side of the in-laws the mother side the father side the step kids side and all the other side they seem to forget the wishes of The Departed. The hardest funerals to preach are the ones that I have never met the family but the two who requested my help with the funeral. I have to ask been a man of God did this person have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, more times than not the answer is no but he was a good fisherman and a good Hunter and he wants us to know he was a good man but was scared to death the dark and the door of a church and find out that's something more on the other side of this universe then it's been around hunk of dirt we call Earth. I just keep it simple and to the point that was out a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus himself said you must be born again, it's not about head knowledge it's about faith a simple thing it's so many will not do it cuz they think there's something attached to it the only thing attached to it is is we through his deathbarrel resurrection believe and call upon the name of Jesus and be safe it's not even a work we can't do it not good enough to forgive my own sin of one little white lie.

I've never gone to see a person in the hospital who's give terminal news that he just has ours to live worry about taking anything with him, most worried about their own families fighting amongst themselves and becoming enemies over a bunch of earthly stuff, most just want insurance that their wife their kids and their loved ones are going to be taken care of and from my own experience of heart failure and the times that I have nearly died from heart quit beating failure I can say I agree I never want worried about my earthly position but just those I love wanting them there but not at the flatline times, I didn't see no bright light and I didn't see Jesus coming for me because if I had, I wouldn't want to come back personally knowing I made it all the way to heaven and then all sudden I got to go back to this no once I see those pearly Gates Jesus and God in the stone see all my family that's crossed over no I'm going right straight to that Crystal River stick my foot in the water and if I get nibbles on it and some of those golden perch they have up there, I don't know that they had that I just know I have eternal life and will not be looking to come back anytime soon.

If I ever needing a lesson in being non-judgmental I got one yesterday. Since the bolts on my trailer that anchor the bunks had rusted through I had made replacements which required the boat be off the trailer to make the repair. Lacking an overhead lift, the easiest way was to launch the boat. In addition to wanting to actually use my boat, this was a priority yesterday. Launched the boat and went for a ride (see did it) and returned to replace the bunks.
When I launched one of the bunks fell off, which I didn't notice until later. No problem, it was trash anyway. Went to attach the new one and the bolts that I had so carefully measured twice and then rechecked twice didn't match up to the trailer. This was obviously a problem. Figured I could attach one bolt then carefully load the boat, and the boat would hold the bunk in place. This I knew from the first launch when I found the bunks were in need of repair. Enter my savior of the day. I am in the ramp, I have to line up the boat, keep the bunk in place and crank the boat onto the trailer. Did I mention that it was dead low tide??? So back to my hero. In comes a guy on a JET SKI. Now we've had several conversations, not many of them kind, about people on jet skis. At this point I'm trying to tell my daughter where to find the boat hook and how to use it to guide the boat. He pulls up to the ramp, jumps off his pwc, and grabs the stern in chest deep water (very muddy water) and proceeds to line up the boat for me to crank it in. Then he wades up to the bow and makes sure the boat is properly secured. I thanked him profusely, he smiled and waded back to his ski and left.
I'll never assume a jet skier is a PITA again. They have to prove it.