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Thank You Jesus
I have always been reluctant
to list my blessings for fear of excluding something or someone. If
you do not see your name on this list, please forgive me for the oversight
and check back. I plan to keep updating the list. This list is not in
any order of significance and it will always be incomplete. PLEASE DO
NOT ASSUME POSITION IN THE LIST INDICATES RELATIVE IMPORTANCE. CAPITALIZATION
MEANS NOTHING EITHER. I spell names poorly, if yours is misspelled,
please over look. I have been reluctant to make this list because I
know I will never get it complete or correct. Do not look too much for
your name on this list. You know I love you and I am thankful for knowing
you. If you see your name and I thank you for something specifically,
it doesn’t mean that is all I thank you for. Please don’t take this
list as a sign I am giving up. This list is to mostly help me cope with
new challenges. You may want to make you own list. It’s fun and it’s
helping me to live the moment.
Thank you Jesus for:
- 50 years of a healthful
life, a life without cancer
- loving me all my life
and taking care of me
- every hunting and fishing
trip I went on
- Bob, Ken and Edna and
trips to South Dakota
- every duck I shot,
or just shot at
- every goose I shot,
or just shot at
- every dove I shot,
or just shot at
- every rabbit I shot,
or just shot at
- every fish I caught
- giving me my soul mate
Audrey and her family, Lewie, Jan, David and his family, Beth, Kerry,
Debra, Meagan, Shaun, Memaw, and Pawpaw
- Audrey’s health and
character and love and being so wonderful to me and loving me for
21 years
- two beautiful healthy,
smart kids - Katherine and Russell
- for my first marriage
and that family
- every dog I owned especially
HRCH EAST TEXAS YELLOW FEVER and FEVER’S MAGICAL PRANCER and POWDER
- John Parker and everything
he taught me about dogs
- Getting me safely to
every duck blind in the darkness of night and then getting me back
to the boat ramp safely
- Go-devil boats and every
time the engine started in a very remote place
- 870 pump shotguns
- helping me live and
work in Nacogdoches and not in some big city like Houston or Dallas
- every field trial I
ran
- every field trial I
judged
- everyone I have talked
to with cancer
- every hunting test I
ran
- every hunting test
I judged
- every hunting test
I won
- for James Vaughan and
what he taught me about business
- for Steve Brady and
what he taught me and is still teaching me about business
- Chuck Kettler and what
he taught me about contracts
- Johnny Hitt and trying
to help LCS and OASIS
- Mike Coffee and his
trust in me and his skills
- Olen Splawn and his
trust in me and his skills
- LCS
- Oasis
- my wonderful sister
and her daily sacrifices and love for me. (I need another list to
enumerate what my sister has meant for me that list would take 100’s
of pages)
- Leigh, my neice, Rusty,
my nephew, and all their kids
- my 86 year old mother
who introduced me to YOU
- my mother’s well being
and health in her golden years
- the skills to be a
pgmr and work in an occupation I love
- every person that trusted
me to write systems for them
- LCS pgmrs Diana, Jeremy,
Trent, and Jim
- all the students that
worked for me at SFA
- Billy Click and 17 wonderful
years at SFA
- Charles Hardy for making
me leave SFA
- the Checkmate gang,
Ray, Lois, and Eddie
- Wayne Magee and all
his support and love, including the "Don’t Think Too Much"
lesson
- Donny Walker and all
our great hunts and all his support and love
- my best friend, Mike
Connolly and all our great times in the fields and on lakes, and sharing
his faith with me
- getting me to this
point and staying with me and loving me and guiding me in brain tumor
hell
- the lessons YOU have
given me that I post here
- anyone that might benefit
from this web site
- Great docs and nurses
- PT/OT people
- Letting me have my
right side, sight, and cognitive skills
- What I have gotten
back on the left side
- No real pain
- A cancer that does not
require a painful death
- All my friends at MTC
- Mark, Bob, Don and their trust in LCS
- All my friends at TouchCredit,
and their trust in LCS
- James Uberti and trusting
me with his dream
- Don Binns for giving
my family a great weekend
- GOD’S plan for my life
- Grace Bible Church,
its members, and Justin
- Jack Nelson and allowing
me to write the CDAS System
- Bernie Siegel tapes
- Resources for keeping
LCS and OASIS going
- Jim Durbin and the
opportunity to write Escan
- Peter Fernandez and
his friendship
- Weenie dogs
- each RV trip with my
family
- Craig Wood for our
friendship
- Camille Price for letting
me rewrite a pl/1 pgm when she didn’t have to
- Jarrell Grout and all
the SFA CSC profs that taught me my pgming skills
- every CSC test I passed
- every math test I passed
- graduating from SFA
- Dr. Bill’s software
and Bill Weber, and the pair of ears Bill loans me quite often
- filling my heart with
love, so I can spread it around a little
- Rich Morgan who made
it possible for me to meet Audrey
- My neighbors on Hunters
Ridge for their concern
- Eugene Feazell for
introducing me to skeet
- Roger Sanders for trying
to bring Audrey closer to Christ
- Joe Buck Strong and
his son for the emergency baptism
- Arron Polk for 28 years
of being my doctor
- John-l Johnson for
trusting me to not only write code but to learn as I went along
- Robbie Robertson for
loadin Unix and Tbred on my devel systems
- Debbie Darro’s friendship
and everyone at Tbred, including Bill Clarke for trusting me to write
code
- For getting me in and
out of the Newark, NJ, airport
- Randy Askew for being
my friend
- For all the medical
procedures and drugs that are treating me
- For getting me through
MRIs and surgeries
- For my life so far
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