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God Bless Chick-fil-a

Tim Hawkins is a wonderful comedian who is clean and funny. You will enjoy this video and if you don't it may be because you have not been blessed to have Chick-fil-a in your area. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Sondra

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Morgan, Sondra, Shelbi In my last post I stated that I was going to start mentioning some of those people who have had great influence in my life. Sometimes this is the one whom I have a tendency to not make such a big deal of in influencing my life, but I am able to remedy that now. Sondra Jean (Holmes) Turner is definitely "one-of-a-kind" and has the most influence in my life for the last 25 years plus. (How can you be married to a wonderful woman for that long and some of that not rub off on you anyway?) She is amazing. I am going to attempt to do a compare and contrast and then let you draw your own conclusions on how she has most influenced my life. She is black and white on issues.       I am pretty gray on many things She is organized.                               I am organized enough to get b...

Influence

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I think I have hit that interesting age in life where many people who are younger than me, 20- and 30-somethings primarily, think I have wisdom. I am pretty sure that I do not have much, but my gray hair sort of lends itself to this whole "wisdom" thing. To be completely honest, I am a little flattered and a lot scared. I know I do not know much. I do have experience and get the opportunity to be around alot of folks in ministry and realize that I do have some influence in others' lives. What a responsibility. Turners circa early 70s It has also caused me to think about many people who have influenced my life in so many great and strong ways. I have talked about my dad and my mom in this blog many times and those two people obviously have influenced me the most. It is hard to believe that my mom has been gone almost 3 years ago and yet her influence in my life continues strong. Of course, my dad continues to influence me in so many ways. My brother, James, is almos...