CR 9

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I was born at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number. You can go anywhere from nowhere." -Robert Schuller


"What’s mainly wrong with society today is that too many Dirt Roads have been paved.

There’s not a problem in America today, crime, drugs, education, divorce, delinquency that wouldn’t be remedied, if we just had more Dirt Roads, because Dirt Roads give character.

People that live at the end of Dirt Roads learn early on that life is a bumpy ride. That it can jar you right down to your teeth sometimes, but it’s worth it, if at the end is home…a loving spouse, happy kids and a dog.

We wouldn’t have near the trouble with our educational system if our kids got their exercise walking a Dirt Road with other kids, from whom they learn how to get along. There was less crime in our streets before they were paved. Criminals didn’t walk two dusty miles to rob or rape, if they knew they’d be welcomed by five barking dogs and a double barrel shotgun. And there were no drive by shootings.

Our values were better when our roads were worse! People did not worship their cars more than their kids, and motorists were more courteous, they didn’t tailgate by riding the bumper or the guy in front would choke you with dust & bust your windshield with rocks. Dirt Roads taught patience.

Dirt Roads were environmentally friendly, you didn’t hop in your car for a quart of milk you walked to the barn for your milk. For your mail, you walked to the mail box. What if it rained and the Dirt Road got washed out? That was the best part, then you stayed home and had some family time, roasted marshmallows and popped popcorn and pony rode on Daddy’s shoulders and learned how to make prettier quilts than anybody.

At the end of Dirt Roads, you soon learned that bad words tasted like soap. Most paved roads lead to trouble, Dirt Roads more likely lead to a fishing creek or a swimming hole. At the end of a Dirt Road, the only time we even locked our car was in August, because if we didn’t some neighbor would fill it with too much zucchini.

At the end of a Dirt Road, there was always extra springtime income, from when city dudes would get stuck, you’d have to hitch up a team and pull them out. Usually you got a dollar…always you got a new friend…at the end of a Dirt Road!" Paul Harvey


Scripture


God's Message yet again: "Go stand
at the crossroads and look around.
Ask for directions to the old road,
The tried-and-true road. Then take it.
Discover the right route for your souls.
But they said, 'Nothing doing.
We aren't going that way.'
Jeremiah 6:16 Message

Song
Country Roads




Almost heaven West Virgina blue rich mountain,tended to old river
Live is older than, older than the creek, younger than the mountians
Brolling like the breeze

Country roads take me home to the place I belong West Virginia
Mountain mama, take me home Country roads

All my memoires, I get around her, by this lady, stranged to blue water
Darking dusk see, paint in all this sky, mister taste the Moonshine,teardrods in my eyes

Country roads take me home to the place, I belong West Virginia
Mountain mama, take me home Country roads

I hear her voice in the morning are she calle's me,radio the minds me on my hold far away.Driving do

Country roads take me home to the place I belong West Virginia
Mountain mama, take me home Country roads

Country roads take me home to the place I belong West Virginia
Mountain mama, take me home Country roads
Take me home now Country roads.Take me home now Country roads

Sentence Prayer


Praise you Father for the pre-set roads you have sent me down. Praise you Jesus for the heaven road you have provided. Praise you Counselor for the path of Holiness you are compelling me down.

Forgive my lust for pavement, help me instead to accept life as it is. May I not seek ease but your strength to end my journey well.

Thank you for playful dogs. Thank you for the imprints, I leave behind. Thank you for the uphill struggle, so I can enjoy the level ground.

Father, I take the time to pray for those on a more difficult dirt road, than mine.
Amen Roger Miller