Watched some college football yesterday. Baylor defeated Oklahoma State literally by inches. The Baylor defense managed to stop the OK State offense on fourth down at the one-inch line with about 20 seconds left on the clock. Can’t get any closer than that. Baylor fans were ecstatic. My thought was … “Now that quarterback has to run one more play to run out the clock. He can’t just take a knee, either, because he has to make sure he gets out of the end zone.” They all lined up, bunched together, expecting a quarterback sneak. And that’s what they got. Bodies all piled together in one big, jumbled mass. And the referees jumped into action to locate the ball and the guy carrying it. There he is. The QB still has the ball. And he is down on the … four-inch line. Baylor wins. Exciting stuff.
Last
night we went up into League City to watch their Christmas parade. Kel and the kids were going to be in the
parade with the float representing the martial arts studio they are learning
karate from. We met up with Christina
and found a place to set up our chairs. Thing
is, we were about an hour early. The good
thing about that was we found a place to sit.
The bad thing was, we were about an hour early. Well, I did find another good thing. Lots and lots of people to watch. I decided to take a walk down to the staging
area (about a half mile or so away) to see if I could find our kids. I never located them, so I eased across the
street to a gas station to use the bathroom.
Another of my life mottos: Never pass up an opportunity to not be
uncomfortable. Then I spent some time
hanging out with the fire department guys who were going to ride in the parade. I finally made my way back to Chris and Christina
to await the parade’s start.
The
parade itself was one of the longest I have ever been to. It lasted an hour and a half.
There
were lots of floats, cars, marching bands, drill teams, cheerleaders,
businesses, politicians, and even a group of guys on horseback, showing off
their horses’ savvy. Candy and beads
were flying everywhere. It felt like a
Mardi Gras parade in Galveston. Some of the
folks even brought us old guys some candy so we wouldn’t have to chase it down
in the street. It was a lot of fun to
see the faces of the little kids and watch their reactions to some of the characters. I think we saw three or four guys dressed as
Santa, so that wasn’t so special to them.
Sad. They should have kept it to
one of them. The most popular characters,
though, were the young ladies dressed as Anna and Elsa. The six little girls next to us raced right
up to them and gave them each a big hug.
Our karate kids walked down from the staging area after the parade and
joined us just as we were picking up our chairs. They were tired, but pretty excited as
well. Me too, guys. Me too.
Psalms
95:6 says, “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord
our Maker.”
Father,
thank you for the chance to see joy of the faces of little children. Always worth the effort. Amen.
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