April 26, 2021 - Pam and I have fed the birds at our house in San Augustine for twenty-seven years now. It is unbelievable that we have around fifteen species that live at our house---only a few blocks from town.

"Consider how the wild flowers grow...”  Luke 12:27

April 12, 2021 - Back in the seventies, I had an appointment to preach a morning service at The Old Salem Baptist Church near Newton, Texas. When Amber, my youngest daughter, said she’d like to go with me, I told her that my old pickup was not air conditioned and that all my tires were treadless “may-pops.” It was during one of the “leanest” days of my life and I warned Amber that it would be an exceptionally hot summer drive.

March 15, 2021 - Back in the mid-fifties I often visited my brother John who lived with his wife’s parents in Huxley, Texas that lived up the hill from Harris Branch. This little Branch and the nearby Bayou Seipe flow eventually into the Sabine River.

"Don’t carelessly place yourself in tempting situations. Avoid them" (Proverbs 14:16 TEV)

February 15, 2021 - Although James Cannon and I were both from the Shelbyville, Texas area, I first met him in 1970 when I became pastor of Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church in Lumberton, Texas. James was our Youth Sunday School teacher, a member of the Lumberton tax equalization Board, and was highly respected resident in the fastest growing town in Texas. We became close friends and often hunted together.