It’s been a good long while since I’ve posted anything and I miss it! I also miss not being able to browse the Internet as often as I would like. If you keep up with such things then you will know that I’ve had to return to driving a truck. I was laid off from my teaching job and the prospects of being called back didn’t look too good. I was hired by the same company that I last worked for: Southern Refrigerated Transport or SRT for short. Our trailers are reefers or refrigerated units and most of the trucks are purple in color. My current schedule is three weeks away and four days at home. I’m presently into my third week and scheduled to return home this Friday. I’ve been all over. The furthest west was Denver and then I went to Miami to New Jersey and back to Miami. I’m presently in Houston and heading for San Antonio and then I’ll start working my way towards the house. I nearly ran over an alligator yesterday morning down near the glades. I would say he was about 10 feet long. I saw two others that had been run over and they were well into the teens, both looked to be 15 feet or better.

The last time I was on the road I was hooked up through Sprint so that I could access the Internet from anywhere. I’ve not reactivated that service, yet, so I’m dependent on the WiFi at truck stops. The only truck stops that currently offer WiFi are Flying J’s and we don’t fuel at these so it’s not often that I can swing into one and get online.

I’m going to look into AT&T’s wireless service and if they don’t offer anything I’ll talk to Spring again. I don’t want to sign up with a phone and I know that Sprint wouldn’t let you have the wireless card without a phone. Maybe that’s changed. Hopefully I’ll get to where I can have service from anywhere and then I’ll resume posting on a regular basis. I’m anxious to write about the things I’ve seen Through My Windshield.

Talk with you later.

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I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here so I thought I had better post something before everyone assumed I was gone for good.

Here is some of what’s been going on:

• I had another bout of infection in my leg.
• I had an allergic reaction to the anti-biotic and went to the hospital.
• While fighting this I was informed that I was being laid off from my job.
• In addition to this my wife had an attack of kidney stones and spent several days suffering with these.

I will not be going back to the job that I’ve had for the past 16 months. It looks like I’ll be returning to the road. I’m scheduled to attend Orientation for Southern Refrigerated Transport next Monday.

I guess I’ll have to re-instate my “Through My Windshield” series of posts.

I’ll try to do better when the storm passes.

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I’m pleased to announce that Texarkana Reformed Baptist Church has begun a Sunday Morning Radio Broadcast. The program, Grace Abounding, will air on KTFS 940 AM and KTFS 105.5 FM every Sunday morning at 9:00.
If you don’t live in an area where you can pick up these stations then you may listen to the broadcasts from the churches website. The quality of teaching and preaching is unsurpassed and you will certainly be blessed by listening.

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The day started off rather calm but it has let loose. Most of Arkansas, north of Interstate 30, was blanketed in snow last night but we escaped it because we live south of Interstate 30. Not by much, though, because the Interstate cuts our town in half. It was funny because you could drive a couple of miles north and there was snow but at 7:00 this morning we didn’t have any.

That changed around 9:00 and it is still coming down now, 12:30, and the ground is completely covered.

We dismissed school for the rest of the day and I came home at lunch time and let Buffy out for her first romp in the snow. She seemed to enjoy it

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I teach Truck Driving at our local college and during the course of our classroom studies I always tell new students that the Trucker’s Motto is “Save the Children”. I say that because Truck Drivers are classified as “Professionals” and there is a great deal of emphasis in training videos and instructional books on the Professional Drivers dedication to watch out for the other guy and be the best driver on the highway because the life(s) we save may be a child in the other car.

Having children as our motivation seems to be the American way and this societal tradition has not escaped our churches. It seems that the largest focus of attention in churches is the children.

This past Sunday we had the noon meal at church and while we were eating I noticed that there were two fifteen passenger vans parked behind the church. I had not seen them before and I asked if both of the vans belonged to the church. One of the ladies, sitting across from me, said they were and what was needed was someone who would volunteer to drive them on Sunday’s and pick up children. I told her I had a difficult time picking up kids from homes that had three cars in the driveway and whose parents chose to sleep in or go fishing while we babysat their kids.

The idea seems to be that if parents won’t shoulder their responsibility to give their children a spiritual upbringing then it falls on us to do it for them. I disagree with this belief and I can’t find it taught anywhere in the Bible. In fact, I believe that the work we attempt to do for the kids is undermined by their parents who refuse to acknowledge God or the church. It doesn’t matter how often you pick them up and take them to church, when they get home they want to know why “Daddy” doesn’t go to church. We might succeed in getting them to repeat a prayer to ask Jesus into their hearts but they do so as willing guests of the hosts who drive them around and provide them with activities. It is not very often that we see any fruit of salvation. We then take the “Happy News” to their parents and use it as leverage to bind their conscience to get them involved. Not because God commands it but “For the Children”.

I told the lady at church that Paul’s example was to go to the market place or where ever it is that the men gather and win them. If you win the man then you win the family. I believe this is the example most often found in Scripture.

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