The move to East Texas has been good. It’s hard for me to say that because I love Rockdale so much. Last time I checked I was still bleeding blue and gold.
My neighbor (she’s great BTW) sent me a picture of our old house last week and it made me homesick and then another friend (she’s great too) sent me a picture of the new Tiger Field and I felt even worse.
Soon after that my Rockdale Reporter came in the mail and I read about all the good stuff going on in town (you all are being blessed). Tuesdays roll around and I always miss my Rotary tribe. I have not played tennis with my good friend Rey Mata since late June and I’m wondering if I should go into retirement and pawn my racket (the good news is that I have not lost a tennis match since late June (lol)?
The Blonde has roots in ETX. Her grandparents are buried in Marshall, her dad is from Nacogdoches and she has a sibling in Texarkana. What I’m saying is yams and red dirt are normal for her.
God lives here in the piney woods as well as Central Texas and He’s been teaching me a lot. One of the things: “Kenny, it’s not so much where you are from or where you have been but rather where you are going?”
Ouch! As usual God has a tendency to hurt my feelings. That led me to some reflective learning—Where am I going? Not only where but how am I going to get there and what am I going to do once I’m there?
Jesus said the two biggest things we can do is to love Him and love people so that’s a start (Mark 12:30-31). I read somewhere that I could give all my earthly possessions away but if I don’t love others it will not have meant a thing (1st Corinthians 13:3, 4-7).
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It doesn’t insist on it’s own way. It’s not irritable, it keeps no record of wrongs. It rejoices in the truth, it never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, love hangs in there even when it’s hard (otherwise it’s not love).
I’m loving people in my new church and in my community, hopefully the way I loved (love) my old church and my old community (home).
You should love (with accuracy—see above) the people God has put in your path as well, even when it’s hard.
He told me to tell you that.
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