Sunday morning

I am sitting looking out my study window at 8:26 am at the pretty fountains on our pond here in rural Catoosa, our home for now. Yes, we have decided to stay here for now instead of moving to Stillwater. The whole real estate market and where we live makes it hard to do a move right now, so we stay and now have to pay attention to who to vote for in the mayoral election Tuesday. They had a lineup of the prospects in the Catoosa Times and they were all overweight, red neck looking men and women, all of who I am sure smoke, everybody smokes in Catoosa. Everyone you see driving down the roads of our little berg smokes and somehow they all can afford a cell phone, it's the Catoosan look.

Back to the title. What are you doing this Sunday morning? Are you in church? Probably not, just like me, enjoying my fist cup of coffee, the peace and quiet, don't have to be anywhere, don't have to dress up and put on the show at church, no matter how I really may feel inside. Contrary to popular belief though, I do have some very good memories of church starting back at when I went to a retreat as a teenager with Will Rogers Methodist youth group and I put an ice pick in the bus tires so we would not have to leave we were having so much fun. Weird. They never did figure out that I was the one.

Seriously, our formative years were in the church, mostly Eastwood Baptist, weren't they? I was saved at least twice there and I think the last and final one stuck. It took me three times to get it right. so what did I get right? I got right that it has nothing to do with a church, it is your relationship with God. I have a better relationship with God today than I ever have, maybe because there is NO interference between me and Him like what the church or anyone in the church says. Yes, I still sit alone most every morning and read and pray for many of you that read this blog. That "time alone" as I call it now starts my day off right and helps me to quietly spend time with our Maker. Sorry for those of you that hope I will go back to church soon, I have church every morning in my pajamas. Will I ever go to church again other than we visit you, maybe, I am certainly not closed to that. Right now I am enjoying my Sunday mornings being quiet and not rushed and every morning alone.

Dad