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Good Sunday Mornin'

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Shortgrass

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This is what we looked like on Thursday Morning

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This is what we looked like Friday afternoon. Still chilly, but clear & sunny

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This was Saturday morning for a few minutes. The sunrise changed as we watched, and was soon gone.




Things are beautiful for a bit, but rather fleeting. The Lord tells us that are very lives are as fleeting as the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven. If our lives will count for anything of lasting value, it must be Him who works through us. Is your time on this earth committed to Him? If its not, then what will you acomplish? We need to be about our Father's business. Have a good Sunday mornin', and a great rest of the week!
 
bverellen
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Joined: 09 Apr 2007
Posts: 115
Location: Knee Deep in Gators, Skeeters and Cows!!


Knee deep in gators!! I guess that makes these cold winters in Kansas seem ok..... at least we don't have gators.
 
Shortgrass, thanks for your illustrated "sermonette" this morning. It is very pertinent.

There is an auction today down at your old stomping grounds when you lived in the Sandhills. The sale is at what is known locally as the McMurtrey Ranch. Erba "Hub" McMurtrey established quite an empire deep in the heart of the hills. After he died in 1979, his heirs leased the 28,252 acre ranch to A.W. Moursund for several years, and then it was leased to Kimes for quite a few more years. Ted Turner bought the ranch on June 26, 2007, and continued the Kime lease until this fall when it expires. The auction today kind of puts another "closure" on the situation.

The McMurtrey family had the ranch for over one hundred years. It's hard telling how long the Turner family will have the ranch. The ranch will probably never be in private hands again, and might end up being owned by the United Nations, who knows?

All of this is a moot point. This and every other ranch are God's ranches. Everyone else is just a temporary steward of the land, no matter how much they think they "own" it.
 
Faster horses said:
Terrific message, Shortgrass and good point, Soapweed.
Thank you both.

BTW, that's a good looking horse, Shortgrass. You look good
riding him. I like your bosal...it fits good and looks better.
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Thanks for the kind words. Considering the source, that is a nice compliment. I'm a fan of the hack. Will use them as long as a horse will work in it.
 
Thanks, Shortgrass and Soapweed. Nothing lasts forever, Not the sunshine nor the snow. Even wealth can be enjoyed only for a short time. Makes a person stop and think. But then this has all been sumed up years ago in the words written in Ecclesiastes.
 
Ecclesiastes 1: 1 - 9
Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! What profit has a man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun? One generation passes and another comes. But the world forever stays. The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises.
Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds.
All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they go, the rivers keep on going.
All speech is labored; there is nothing man can say. The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor is the ear filled with hearing.
What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.
 

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