TRUE STORY
BEAR WITH ME……
MY….OUR…
SECOND DAUGHTER ASKED TO BORROW MY LAWNMOWER
I HATE DOING THAT
BUT I TRUSTED HER
SO I DID……
A WEEK LATER
ELDEST DAUGHTER ASKED THE SAME
I DIDN’T WANT TO
REALLY
I KNEW……
BUT I HAD TO….
SO………
IT CAME BACK….BROKEN
VERY BROKEN
MY COUSIN IN LAW AND My BROtHER IN LAW WERE THE ONES THAT DID THE YARD
WHICH
APPARENTLY HADN’T BEEN CUT ALL SEASON
SO
THEY RAMRODDED MY POOR
INNOCENT
DEFENSELESS LAWNMOWER
TO HELL
my opinion……….They blamed it on bad gasoline………
BUT HERE’S THE THING
I KEPT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET IT RUNNING
I DID MY BEST
CLEAN THIS
CLEAN THAT
THEY GAVE ME A NEW SPARK PLUG
AS A DISTrACTION
THE OLD ONE WAS FINE
AND A DIFFERENT TYPE
BUT IT’S BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE I BOUGHT THAT LAWNMOWER
SO………ANYWAY
I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO
IT HAD BEEN THREE WEEKS SINCE I CUT THE GRASS
because the grass grows slower now
and the neighbors ought to be glad i cut it at all……[smile]
bUT i care
so i do……..
BUT NOW THE GRASS IS KINDA HIGH
IN THE FRONT
WHERE THEY CARE ABOUT
THE BACK IS MINE
WEGET TOGETHER AND PLAY KOOL AND THE GANG ON WEEKENDS
JUNGLE BOOGIE
JUNGLE BOOGIE
I LOVE MY BACKYARD JUNGLE
UNTIL I HAVE TO CUT IT
I ALWAYS APOLOGIZE
AND LET IT GROW BACK
ONly TO CUT IT AGAIN
SIGH
SUCH IS LIFE IN THE BIG CITY…….
ANYWAY
I WAS THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO
DID I NEED tO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BUY
A NEW MOWER?
IT COULD BE THREE WEEKS OR MORE
TO GET IT FIXED
AND FROM THE SOUND AND REACION
OF THE ENGINE
IT COULD COST AS MUCH AS A NEW ONE
AND THEN
JUST THEN
I TRIED IT AGAIN
AND IT CAME TO LIFE
FULL POWER
SCREAMING TO DO
WHAT IT WAS MEANT TO DO
SO I WENT OUT
AND CUT THE FREO T YARD
AND THEN
THEN
JUST AS I WAS TOTALLY FINISHED
IT CUT OFF
NEVER TO START AGAIN………….
YOU MAY SAY WHAT yOU WILL
I SAY IT’S A MIRACLE
I SAY IT IS THE LAST EFFORT
OF A BELOVED AND DEVOTED MACHINE
TO DO IT’S BEST
TO FULFILL IT’S PURPOSE
ONE LAST TIME
I AM GRATEFUL
I TOLD THEM THAT………. WITH GUSTYO
ALL LOVE AND APPRECIATION INCLUDED
THANKED ALL THE OTHER NECESSARY MACHINES AND TOOLS
AS WELL………..
IT’S ALL GOD ALL THE TIME AND EVERYWHERE
I’VE LEARNED THAT MUCH
JUST LIKE YTEARS AGO
WHEN I WAS DRIVING My DADDY’S EL DORADO
DOWN THE ICE COVERED HIGHWAY
AND THAT 90 DEGREE CURB CAME UP
AND I TOLD THE CAR
ASK IT
WELL
DO YOU WANT TO HIT THE WAL
OR THE OTHER CARS?
FOR THERE WERE SEVERAL THERE ALREADY
ALONG WITH THE SHERIFF’S DEPT SQUAD CARS
BUT THE CADILLAC JUST ROLLED THROUGH IT ALL
TWO 90 DEGREE CURVES
WITHOUT INCIDENT
I REALIZED THEN
THAT ALL THINGS HAVE A LIFE OF THEIR OWN
THAT WAS FORTTY YEARS AGO
I’VE COME A LONG WAY
AND FOR THAT LAWN MOWER TO CARE ENOUGH
TO CUT THE FRONT
ONE
LAST TIME
I AM TRULY GRATEFUL AND APPRECIATIVE……..
IT DOESN’T KNOW YET THAT WE’RE GOING TO KEEP IT
I’LL HAVE TO GET A NEW ONE….
YES…I KNOW
BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE
BUT I’M GOING TO PAY TO GET IT FIXED UP
SOMEHOW
AT SOME POINT
I WILL REPAY IT’S KINDNESS AND LOYALTY AND DEVOTION
I PROMISE
BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS
THAT I NOTICE
AS BEING A SYNCRHONISTIC PART OF LIFE
IN GOD
WITH GOD
THESE ARE THE THINGS
THAT I HAVE NOTICED
MORE AND MORE
IN my LIFE
AS My LIFE HAS
SUPRISINGLy
CONTINUED
ANDF I
I AM LIKE THEM
I WILL DO MY BEST TO SERVE
WITH ALL THAT I AM
WITH ALL THAT I HAVE
TO THE VERY END
THAT I MAY SERVE MY DIVINE PURPOSE
MY REASON FOR BEING
WHATEVER IT MAY BE………..
I AIN’T EVEN MAD
AT MY COUSIN AND BROTHER-IN-LAW ANYMORE
IT’S ALL PART OF THE GAME
THE EXPERIENCE
THE RIDE
RIDE THE RIDE
FLOW WITH IT
HOLD ON TIGHT
OR HOLD YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR
HOLD EM LIKE YOU JUST DON’T CARE……..
BE YOU
BE GOD IN YOU
BE YOU IN GOD
whatever that means
in your experience of it
HUMAN!
KNOW THYSELF
AND TO THINE OWN SELF
BE TRUE
and let the chips fall where they may……….(-I-)
Beautiful story brother. How much does the new engine for the mower cost?
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I told the lawnmower that I’d rather keep it. I started it a few days ago and it worked fine.
We’ll see if it keeps doing so.
In the meantime, I’m going to save up to get it a good rehab, maintenance job so it will be feeling fine come next March.
So GOD Willing, I won’t have to buy a new one….
We still have to pay the property taxes and heat will go sky high this winter and the IRS says I owe this and the construction company says I owe that….sigh.
But GOD is with us and we’ll make it through it all by GOD’S WILL….
Prayers help immensely……
Thanks for caring enough to ask
It means a lot…..😁😇🦄
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If I come across some funds I’ll see if I can toss them your way, just depends how this tax benefit comes through, I might have some spare cash, if I get the funds I’ll send you what you need to get the lawnmower fixed up and checked out. I loved “the brave little toaster” growing up, love ya brother.
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Thanks… But wait until after Valentine’s day…. I won’t be doing that until then…Besides, you’re going to need every penny if this winter is going to be as harsh as some say. So unless you have riches to spare take care of yourself first… No joke…price of everything is going sky high and if the markets crash and politics clash and power and heat go off or through the roof… you’ll wish you kept it.So wait…. It’s okay…..I wanna see if certain things happen first….all this may be a moot point after all 😉😇🦄
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How little most realize the intelligence in all things.
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Everything has a life of it’s own.
It’s all GOD all the time and everywhere.
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