Ale for the Soul

Today is my Sabbath day of rest, and I have been enjoying the time immensely.  Last Wednesday, January 20th, I was blessed with starting employment with Goody Goody Liquor on Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth.  On the previous Friday, I interviewed with the store manager.  By Monday, I was offered employment contingent on passing a background check and drug test.  The following Tuesday brought the good news yours truly had passed both.  Most of the blog readers already remember I do have a black mark in my personal history, but God allowed everything to come back clear.  I was working the very next day beginning at Noon.  After working four days straight, I was exhauted!  Every night after clocking out from an eight-hour shift, I went home sore with hurting feet.  Whew, I was extremely thankful for having both Sunday and Monday off from work.  A family member helped me to run a few errands, making Monday a true day of rest and recuperat...

The year 2020 flew by at break-neck speed.  Yes, it was a rather odd year with the Corona Virus, but I am more amazed at how it seemed to pass me by without much to show for it.  Not knowing how life will turn out, I am continually in awe at how my Abba Father provides for me.  He is all-knowing and ever-present in my life, blessing me beyond measure in spite of myself.  With the "pandemic" ramping up in March, getting the work-from-home job with Enterprise in February was great timing.  This only confirms Ecclesiastes 3:11, "He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end."  Leaving that job about eight months later, again I was richly provided for through temporary day labor employment.  Another milestone of the year was the expiration of my ten-year legal obligation.  The underlying reason behind the State of Texas supervision was...

Unfortunately, my week-long vacation is coming to an end.  After a glorious time away from the monotany of routine, I'm actually looking forward to a return to normalcy.  Visiting "family" I didn't know I had, to enjoying another birthday with siblings, I capped off the travels with a few days spent with Mom.  Yoakum is a very unexciting, small country town in the middle of nowhere.  No one ever passes through this sleepy little place on their way to somewhere else.  If a person ever finds themselves there, it's on purpose...a destination of sorts.  Just like everyone else, we headed to the nearest big city of Victoria to satisfy the itch of something to do.  After a few hours of eating and shopping, we had enough.  The next day brought a milder excursion to the city of Cuero: shopping at Wal-Mart and a local thrift store, along with a late lunch at an area restaurant.  Content with our endeavors, we spent my final day in Yoakum by keeping cl...