Guest Post

Sonny Boy and Little Red Meet Their Match

By James "Red" Buie

(A story for Senior Adults disguised as a Children's Story.)

It was the summer of 1938 and Sonny Boy and Little Red had been to the Saturday afternoon cowboy movie matinee at the Star Theater in downtown Natchez.  Their Dad had given them twenty-five cents apiece.  This amount would buy their tickets, pop-corn and soda pop.  The movie was about Cowboys and Indians.  The Cowboy, wearing a white hat, was captured by the Indians and tied to a stake in the middle of the village.  All the tribe gathered for the event. The warriors danced.  Straw and limbs were piled about the stake. The Indian braves waved their hatchets and spears and whooped.  One of the Indians lit the straw.  A blaze of fire engulfed the hero.  Just when Sonny Boy and Little Red thought the Cowboy was a goner, the sound of a bugle came from the screen.  It was the U.S. Cavalry. Wow! What a story..what a movie!  All the children in the theater were standing and cheering.  At the conclusion of the movie they headed for home.  Along the way they talked of how they would re-enact the whole scene as soon as they got home.  That's what they always did after an exiting the Cowboy show.

At home Little Red tied an old necktie around his head and stuck a chicken feather in it.  Sonny Boy dressed up with his toy pistol and cowboy hat.  The hat just happened to be a white one.  Little Red painted himself like an Indian brave.  They searched until they found and old piece of rope and took some matches from the kitchen cupboard.  They mounted their faithful stick horses and rode off into the nearby field.  Standing alone in the field was a cedar fence post in the midst of the broom sage.  Sonny Boy allowed Little Red to tie him to the post with the  rope.  He gathered broom straw and placed it about the fence post.  He finiished the preparations and began his imitation of a war dance. He stopped and lit the straw with a match.  As he danced around the post, Sonny Boy yelled for help.  He was playing his part in the drama.  So far everything was authentic. Suddenly a gust of Summer wind caused the fire to blaze up about his legs.  He urged Little Red to untie the rope.  Failing to untie the knots, Little Red remembered the broken-bladed old pocket knife that he carried.  He cut with the knife and stamped with his bare feet but to no avail.  Finally the blade cut the rope and Sonny Boy jumped to safety.  They found a limb and scattered the fire until it was extinguished.  With tender feet they headed back to the house, dragging their stick horses behind them.  Sonny Boy said, "You know what Mom always says about playing with fire...she says that  if you play with fire, you might get burned."   Little Red said, "Yeah, I guess we'd better not try to do everything we see in the movies."  With trembling voices they told their mother about the frightening experience out in the field.  They promised her that they would never, never, play with fire again.

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The Burned Hut

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost.
 
He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, 'God! How could you do this to me?' Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here?' asked the weary man of his rescuers. 'We saw your smoke signal,' they replied.

The Moral to the Story:
It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill

Keep Your Eyes Vertical

I know it's getting hard for some of you truckers out there. Loads are down for some companies and there are more truckers looking for jobs, especially those of you who are new to the industry. The Bible says that in the last days, perilous times will come. It also says these are the birth pangs foreshadowing the Return of Jesus Christ. It may get a little better for a time, but ultimately the Bible teaches things will eventually transpire to bring about the one world government under the Antichrist. We Christian won't be here when that happens, but we may go through a period of deep trial and persecution before the Rapture...AND I BELEIVE IN THE RAPTURE ! However, God is still on the throne and still all powerful. I remember reading a book years ago by J.B. Phillips who wrote the Phillips translation of the New Testament. The book was entitled: Your God Is Too Small: A Guide for Believers and Skeptics Alike. He was writing about Christians who fretted and worried about God not being able to take care of them. My question to you is, "How big is YOUR God?" Mine is pretty big. Big enough to take care of us all. When we fret and worry, the problem is not that God is not around and involved. The real problem is that we don't have our eyes on Him.

Remember when Peter walked on the water to Jesus? Jesus told him to come and Peter got out of the boat and started walking on the water to Jesus. It was only when he took his eyes off Jesus and started looking at his surroundings and the waves when he began to sink. Dear friends and fellow truckers, please keep your eyes on Jesus no matter what happens. He'll get us through this. I'm in my 50's and been a Christian since I was about 5 years old. There have been a lot of times I worried. In fact that is one of my weaknesses. I tend to be a worrier. The fact of the matter is though, God has always gotten me through the difficulties of life.

The Israelites did the same thing. God brought them out of Egypt in a mighty and miraculous way and performed miracles along the way. Yet time and again, when they faced a new difficulty they started worrying. We all do that. So when the worrying starts just try to remember all the past difficulties God got you through. He didn't bail you out of all those past problems just to let you be overcome by another one. Problems are meant to strengthen our faith in Him. It wouldn't help our faith to grow if everything was a bed of roses now would it?

P.S. It also helps to saturate our minds with the Word of God daily, so don't get slack in doing that. Bible reading is to the spiritual being as food is to the physical body.

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A  San Diego pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a county official and warned they will face escalating fines if they continue to hold Bible studies in their home.

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For those of you who love the writings of H.A. Ironside, here is a website which has many of his writings. The one entitled "Ordained of the Lord" is his biography written by his assistant E. Schuyler Engish. Ironside was originally a member of the Plymouth Brethren and their website has a collection of his writing as well as the writings of other Plymouth Brethren.

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