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This isn't Kansas!

There are times when I’d just like to click my ruby slippers at the heels and bleep out of here! Then I wake up! That would be stupid wouldn’t it! Bleeping out of a perfect job at the center of God’s will. Lately I have been giving frightful updates of murderous, coke sniffing thugs who would definitely make the cowardly lion faint dead away. I paint pictures of desperation, heart-ache and sadness that would make the tin-man shed a corroding tear. All of these are real life snapshots but they need not be motive for heel tapping escapes. Those are for empty-headed scare crows who haven’t got a brain. God isn’t hiding behind a silly curtain and rattling and prattling about promises He is not going to fulfilled. Granted His timing is different and His answers are too. Take this one for example. My wife has recently been praying a much needed Stateside visit. I left her to her petitions and settled for the fact that we would be going in 2013 as previously planned. Though I was doubtful

Dust

While passing our tracts on Saturday Rebeca, one of my juniors, saw two teens and went to give them one. She came back running and said, “Man, pastor! They were making dust!” I replied, “Dust? What do you mean?” She burst into hysterical laughter while the other girl with me said, “They were getting ready to snort crack!” Man, I am 58. Rebeca is 10. She is more streetwise than me. Not that that is necessarily a good thing. Just a few minutes later we were able to spend about an hour sharing the Gospel with a lady named Rose. She in turn sent her two nephews to our Bible Club and they had a blast. So, besides the dust the day was a good one. Even thought my team is in last place in our club’s competition. Yesterday I looked out my office window to see a police helicopter hovering just three streets away. Not five minutes later I heard the screeching of tires and sirens. I discovered today that a police was murdered in an afternoon gunfight. Wow. This news came a day aft