Dreams

I have been having some weird thoughts and dreams. I have never had to sell anything. I am dreaming that I am this master sales guy. I am making millions and able to do many great things with the money. Everytime I give it away, more comes back to me. Do note, I have just finished a wonderful play "Big River". I am not going to Hollywood anytime soon. This recurring dream is making me laugh. I hate sales. I like guaranteed money. I like salary compared to sales each month. I am curious to see if I could make it if I had to depend on sales each month. I have had many friends to do it. Just weird stuff!

Other recent thoughts:

Middle children are wonderful. People need to do more for middle children. They are always looking out for everyone else instead of themselves. I know there are exceptions. I love the middle child.

Health Care/Insurance is awful. I would like to sale that to people if the greedy insurance companies were not so awful.

School right now is weird. When you give the students a break, it is very hard to get their attention back on education. No answer right now. I am working on it.

Poverty is bad, we have to change the atmosphere from charity to equipping and empowering.

Looking forward to my Praise team retreat morning this Saturday. They are great! They are my positive adult interaction right now. More on that later...

Non Smokers Unite!

Recently, I needed to rent a car and my experience was not pleasant at the beginning. The lady at the counter acted as though I was bothering her by renting a vehicle. Nobody was around, and I still to this day don't know if they had just had a rush and she was tired. I started my normal "Howdy" with a smile, and she proceeds to look at me like I was on drugs. Anyway, she assigns me a car, and I go check it out. It reeked of a smoke smell. I don;t know maybe one of the workers who had a smoke got into the car the cigarette smoked remained in the car when I got there. I went back to the counter to my very pleasant worker(HA!) to tell her about the smoke smell. She asked if smoked bothered me. The key chain that I had in my hand had a nosmoking sign on it- I was nice and said yes the smoke smell bothers me. This would be a first occurrence for me. I have heard of people checking into hotels that the only rooms left were smoker ones. I got a new car. I continued to smile at the counter worker. I just think we that are non-smokers need to unite. We need to tell smokers and whoever that it does bother me. All three of my sisters smoke, and I don't allow them in my car. The smell is in their clothes. I thought I would share that today!

Great service today! Dr. Ray Hawkins does such a great job.

Big River play is coming up. I am busy memorizing lines and music. I will be glad when it is over. I have been very busy here in January. Basketball, Play, church, and family have consumed me this month.

Have a great week!

Spiritual Renewal Day!

Today for the Junior High Students at GAC we had our spiritual renewal day. We had Matt Elliott leading the worship, Jody Vickery from Campus bringing two lesson, Kin Ellis from Campus challenging my students to share the gospel to their friends, and Brian and Justin from North Atlanta serving as MC's, Visions performed which is a drama troupe from our High school. All did an outstanding job! I believe the day went very well. All we really did was plant seeds. We have about 550 students in the Junior High. They are faced with many challenges each and every day. I love them all. I really do! I need to pray more them daily. They want to do what is right, but satan is strong. Jody reminded them that Satan is the real enemy. I have to be reminded of that from time to time. It was a great day! I pray that many of the students will take a serious look at their faith tonight and for the rest of their lives.

How are you doing with your spiritual walk? We just start the year with this day the first friday back. It helps the teachers as well as the students to get back to the rat race of school. If you have set some spiritual goals this year, I recommend that you stop and do so. Have a great weekend!

Birthday!

My 1st post of the year comes on my birthday. I am 37 today. In 3 years I will be 40. I have had so many great times in the past making fun of those turning 40. It will be my turn soon. 37 did not mean anything to me until college. Many of my college professor were in their late 3o's. Now I am there!. Today, was different. I woke up and said to myself, you are nearing 40. I guess that could be depressing. I got up to make sure I got my car tags. In Georgia, they expired on your birthday. I got to school early, so I could leave to go take care of my car tag. Anyway, not too many people knew that it was. Those on my facebook did. I got many emails before 9am. They were great! I heard from people I have not heard from in a while. We celebrated during my last class in which one of the students brought cupcakes. I am blessed today to be working at my almater and have such thoughtful students. I really do love them, and I can tell they love me. At 37, my thinking today is changing. We prayed in every class, I just prayed differently. It sounded like an old person prayer. One student reminded me of what I said about long prayers. He asked if I did not pray this morning before school. Question I ask of those long sunday morning prayer people. Yes, I am older. Today, I am in a play called Big River. I will be playing Jim the runaway slave. I taught our 5 and 6 year olds tonight. They were hyper. It did not help that I brought bubbles. We were celebrating my birthday. You got to have bubbles. What a birthday party. Bubbles! I typed tonight being thankful and grateful.

Ruth Shaw died. A very special lady passed away last Saturday. I called her my grandma shaw. She is another special person who have gone on around the beginning of the year Last year, I lost my stepdad Robert Cook, and my spiritual dad Carl Mitchell. Now I have Ruth Shaw to remember each year. These are special people. It causes you to think about where you are going in life. Time goes by so fast. Ruth Shaw was a wonderful cook, and a wonderful lady.

If you have not told your family how much you love them. You need to stop reading and do so. The older I get, Family has become more and more important to me. Go and live for the savior!