Flashback Friday!

Seeing all the combines harvesting the wheat crop makes me want to go to Shelansky's and shop for a new straw hat!

It sometimes amazes me how different events, tied to specific times of the year, trigger lots of memories from the memory bank. End of school, summer job, wheat harvest, planting cotton, looking for that perfect summer work hat. Usually that was the precise order for things with me and my grandad. An annual occurrence. He wouldn't go until we both could, and we would search for a hat that was functional. A little shade, plenty of openings for cooling, not too big, not too little, just right! I catch myself smiling as I visualize us behind the combine using our new straw hats as fans to blow the chaf away so we could see how much grain was "riding over" with the trash. Remember that, any combine man worth his salt has to wear a straw hat! I can remember that one summer, his shock when I bucked the trend and began looking at caps. What I would give for one more trip downtown with him, to look at the new straw hats.

As exciting and busy as Wednesday was, Thursday was a boring bust! Work was long. For every positive occurrence Wednesday there were two negatives on Thursday. Since we are now posting and brokering loads for our core customer, they loaded us up, trying to see what will move and not move. At this point there is a lot more not moving than there is moving. I don't know how many times I was in and out of the posting board editing, adding and deleting. I had gone in yesterday morning about 6:50 so about 3:10 yesterday afternoon I was headed to the door. I got home and the office manager was calling me wanting to know how to post and how to change, she had received more loads after I had left.

Krl and I had a good evening Thursday. We cooked supper together (any meal with cornbread has to be good). She has began to accelerate our weekend schedule in order to accommodate either keeping grandkids or being able to go to Pat Lawrence's funeral Saturday in Albany. I understand it is supposed to rain (or have a chance of it late Friday and Saturday).

FATHER, deliver me to the end of this day! Thank YOU for seeing me to this point, I am confident YOU will see me through. I continue to need YOUR strength and resolve. I pray for Krl and me, for healing and for renewal. I pray for those near and dear who are in need of YOUR healing and care. I pray for those who are hurting from loss and grief. I ask YOUR comfort and solace for them. I pray for my kids and grandkids and for all of Pat Lawrence's family as they mourn his death. I ask for safe travel as his family comes together for his burial. FATHER I pray for those of us who struggle in our daily walk with YOU. I pray for our spiritual family and for our leaders. I pray for the efforts to expand YOUR kingdom. For all that YOU do I thank YOU!