Two Trips

I am going to stop saying how bad I am at keeping up this blog.

I am.

No need to beat a dead horse, but ugggggggggh.

I skip a day – and then it’s five days. And suddenly it’s two weeks.

Anyway, all the work training I have been doing, I took two trips the last couple of weeks.

I went to farmer meetings in San Angelo the first week.

It was a good trip, but I sure did miss you girls. We met with cotton growers in old and dusty dinners and steakhouses. I ate so much steak I thought I might explode before it was over.

Two of my favorite places were the Lowake Steak House (in Rowena, TX) and Mereta Cafe (in Mereta, TX). We stayed at the Home 2 Suites in San Angelo and spent all of our in-between time driving around looking at cotton.

I came home that Thursday, spent Friday and the weekend at home, and then left for Corpus Christi for an entire week.

Honestly, the Corpus trip was a lot like the San Angelo trip, only with fewer grower meetings. About 50% of this trip was driving around and looking at cotton and the other 50% was going over billing and contracts back at the office.

One day we drove up to Kennedy (Kennedy, TX) to look at one of our warehouses there. I got to meet the guys working there, we all went to lunch, and we even got to watch a few trucks load some of the last bales of the season.

During the trip, I stayed at the Hyatt Place (the one we have all stayed at before). There is a Saltgrass Steakhouse in the parking lot of the hotel, and I ate dinner there nearly every night.

I flew home that Friday.

And – well – that was too long to be gone.

I love you.

-Dad

Got Me

K mamacita,

You were so sweet to me today.

T got sick this morning and threw up, so I took you and H to church and Sunday school.

Afterwards, I took y’all to Whataburger for lunch where we all got chicken baskets.

We brought mom home a cheeseburger and then all went for a walk after we gathered ourselves.

We walked to the “yellow park” around the corner.

Anyway.

You asked me to push you on the swing when we arrived. I did and you requested that I sing while pushed.

You specifically asked for Amazing Grace, and I Believe I Can Fly (by R. Kelly). Ha!

As I pushed, you told how glad you were that you got me as a daddy.

You said that you loved me so much, and that you were thankful I was so kind and patient and loving to you.

I’m not sure what I did to deserve the deluge of compliments – but I’ll take them!

Later, you and H were fighting and I took you on a drive to separate y’all (you were just tired).

We stopped at Menchies and ate frozen yogurt: Vanilla ice cream, no toppings.

You fell asleep on the way home as I held your hand.

Later you were feeling so partial to me, you sat in my lap for half of dinner.

I love you.

-Dad

God’s Amazing Grace, Sermon Notes

Title: God’s Amazing Grace
Speaker: David Wilson
Location: Lubbock, TX
Date: 5 Sept 2021
Verse: Titus 2:11-15

I. Grace’s manifestation (11)

II. Grace’s transformation (12)
A. A life of denial ((12a)
B. A life of direction (12b)

III. Grace’s anticipation (13)

IV. Grace’s salvation (14-15)
A. Jesus paid for us 
B. Jesus purifies us
C. Jesus possesses us
D. Jesus prompts us