Reader's Mail....And I Get Some Doozies.

 I get mail from folks from time to time. ( Actually I get more letters than I let on......)

And lately I got folks all worried about my " Soul and its Salvation" as the late Billy Graham used to say at least once in his sermons. 

They can't decide if I am saved or lost, or just as I like to say, " Fallen from Grace." ( Or as the Baptists like to say, " Backslidden." Not sure that's even a real word or not? )

Look, I get up every morning and pray for many of you. Several of you literally have "tenure" as you are prayed for every morning. 

And yes, I sin, every damn day, and I used to worry about it, especially when I was younger, but at age 67, well, I still remember the epiphany the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther had in in the toilet, he suffered from constipation, that damn German diet of sausage and lots of awful bread, and cold cuts for breakfast, slices of sandwich meat for breakfast, damn Germans. ( That alone is worth us not going back to Germany, but the damn German I sleep with is to wanting to return to the " Fatherland"so, we are looking to go back....)

So, one of the verses that Luther came across is my favorite verses, Ephesians 2:8-9.

 ⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast himself.

Look folks, I know the Book of James talks about " Faith without works in dead"  and one of these days I need to write on what a knot-head James was.....But I don't have time for a 5000 word blog this morning. And the history behind the Book of James being included in the Bible. 

Look, I can't work hard enough. I may as well enjoy myself. And some of y'all, well, you're doing shit I can't even fathom doing. ( I know more stuff than I let on.)

So, pull than damn plank out of your own eye.....

There is also a rumor that I had a first wife. 

Yeah, I'm still on that first wife. 43 years worth, and this one decides to go, that's enough, well, there won't be wife number 2. I'm done. I figure I'll never replicate what I have now. Why try? Besides, she's going to outlive me by a mile, lots of mileage taken off in my early years. 

So folks, don't about me. Yeah, I know I am coming up on the home stretch, let's face it, no one knows how much time they have left.......

Then there was the PM that wondered if I was a homosexual? 

What the actual cornbread fuck did that come from? 

No, not gay.....Spent too much of my younger life chasing girls, and failing...miserably. I had given up on girls my last years in college  Was seriously looking at an Anglican Monastery in North Texas, when literally my now wife asked me out.....One of those things in my life I am convinced was "foreordained."  ( It and me teaching at Buna HS...as I have told you, I had not put an application to the Buna ISD when I was called in to interview for the "Gubmint/ecocomics" position....Again, I am convinced was "foreordained.")

I am guessing here it's perhaps I have friends who are LBGT, and have for over 50 years. And I am convinced people are born that way, just like left handed people, and in Medieval times they often thought left-handed people were " of the devil." 

But the last thing I'm worried about is my " Soul and its Salvation." 

And as always, you want or need to be added to the 4AM "prayer list" Let me know. Send me a PM, an email to keep people out of your " business." There is always room for one more.