From one of my wife’s cousins: I came home to find that my 75+ yr. old mother had been under the house with a hair dryer, unfreezing a pipe that they had neglected to drip...She was successful too! Re-wrapped the insulation and backed on out from underneath...My Dad said "She went missing on me, so I didn't know what she was up to." I can't make this stuff up!!!

I talked to my mom a week or so before Christmas and she had a similar story about my dad who is 84. My dad got a new “night light” from the local REA and no longer needed the one he had put up on a utility pole of his own. He dug out the pole at the base and made it fall over in such a way that the pole would not “kick” out on the bottom and break buried drainage lines.

These folks are part of what has been called “The Greatest Generation.” They save everything. Used fence post staples, used spark plugs and a lot more. During WWII you could not get a lot of items. Everything was going to the war effort. Gas and tires were rationed. This, I think, was engrained into their spirit, and it never left them. They have a certain “I can do it” mentality, no matter what their physical condition is.

Seems as though the current trend in the populace, per media propagation, is to let the government bail them out of everything. You don’t hear of the government sending FEMA into the frozen and snowed in north to help people. They have lived through it before and know what to do. They don’t mind helping a neighbor or a stranger who is stuck or snowed in.

What are we doing in our Christian walk. Far too many people live inside the 4 walls of the church building and expect the pastors to do all the evangelism, maintenance, prayer for the sick, etc. We should all be witnesses of the most high God, Jehovah, and His Son Jesus. Our very lives should be a witness to others of His work in our lives.

We have a new, blank canvas before us this year to begin painting a new picture. By that I mean, we have new people to see and rally’s to attend this year. For me, Daytona Bike Week, which begins Thursday, February 25, is my first rally of the year. Not far behind that one is Thunder Beach in Panama City Beach. If things work out, I hope to be attending many more rally’s. Local Biker Churches or Church visits by your group or other Motorcycle Ministries are a great way to see and be seen by a lot of non-bikers who think all bikers are 1%’ers.

Have you seen any of the “feel good” beliefs? If it feels good, do it. Just do good works and you will be ok.

Titus 3: 5 says “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us,…..

This tells me that no matter how many feel good deeds that I do, no matter how many people I help, no matter how many Christian events I attend, works will not get me into Heaven. What will get me into Heaven is a personal experience with Jesus, receiving salvation, being saved, however you want to word it.

Want to live forever? Get to know Jesus.

Again, Daytona Bike Week begins February 25^th. If you are attending, you need to make plans now if you have not already got it scheduled. You don’t have to go looking for people to witness to, you have half a million or more right outside your door every day. Bikers from all over the world are there to see and be seen. If you speak “Biker” you will have no problems striking up conversation with strangers about their ride. When they ask you where you are from and why you are there……you have an open door to walk through.

I pray we all live in prosperity, spirit, soul, body, health, finances, family, and ministry!

Bubba <”//><