View Full Version : Praise GOD . I discoverd a lot today !
Came home early to put in a new dog door , the old one fell apart after 16 years , ain't gonna gripe . Got the door put in (it was easy) and my 18 year old daughter came in from school . Was making supper , we started talking . We started talking bible . DANG IT ! She surprised me ! I had to look up verse to defend myself ! She was on it with passion ! I loved it !
I know she is learned but she burst forth and argued ! (PRAISE GOD ! PRAISE HIM !) Biggest topic was total emersion baptism . I think most baptisms involving water are good . She held that it MUST be total emersion (like most Baptists) as in ...he came up out of the water . I truly enjoyed the discussion , she is growing and searching . She admitted that no baptism is mandatory (as in the thief on the cross) . I have waited for her to think on her own , when she was little I wanted her to walk , think , progress . But the biggest thing was to talk , I wanted to know what was on her mind ...what she thought . When she was about 3 I asked her ...What are you , she was perplexed , she wouldn't answer . I kept asking ...what are you and she finally said.....I'm a Becky ! I praised her and agreed ...SHE WAS A BECKY !
GOD has blessed me with her . Our children are gifts . They need not have been except through him . LOL , many topics have been discussed this evening and I come away wiser .
nagantguy
01-04-2017, 09:41 PM
Great day, good for you dad! You as her earthly father have made the effort to get her into a relationship with her Heavenly Father! What are you? A great question to get ones mind working at any age
GhostHawk
01-04-2017, 09:50 PM
You sir are a lucky man, a very very lucky man.
Enjoy! You laid the ground work, you earned it.
Bzcraig
01-04-2017, 11:58 PM
An 18 year old that thinks and is guided by the spirit is a wonderful blessing to a father!
Blackwater
01-05-2017, 12:37 AM
Boaz, sooner or later, you're gonna' have to accept the fact that YOU played a HUGE part in her being this way. You did an awesome job with her. Yeah, I know none of us is perfect, but our children are resilient, so we don't HAVE to be "perfect." We just have to do the big things, and then the little things will fall into place. You've done a great job with her. She'll forever be grateful to you for that, and for all the others who helped along the way.
Being surprised by one's "child" (if you can still call her that?) in this way is one of the rewards only a good father will ever know. Ya' done good, Bro! Accept it. Ya' ain't half as bad as ya' claim! And God bless young Becky! You two ought to be the poster children for parent/child relationships. They're not smooth or easy, but they DO pay off when done well! For BOTHH of you!
Pine Baron
01-05-2017, 09:15 AM
My little girl yesterday
My friend today
My daughter forever
square butte
01-05-2017, 09:24 AM
You and the Good Lord have given us a great gift - Your daughter Becky - Just as your parents and God gave you to us. Thank you Sir from the bottom of my heart - And Praise God. She is a critical thinker
johnson1942
01-05-2017, 08:26 PM
when she starts quoting you, your going to faint. when she is married and has children and you hear her say to them, grandpa does it this way and so are you, your really going to faint. then the grandkids will look at your with squinty eyes and a set face. now and then your going to get really swollen up in your chest. at thanksgiving with all my grandkids here i took two of them into a bed room to listen to me and my 5 string banjo. it would have drove all the rest nuts. i did a hot train 45 and my young grandson said, grandpa, you have got to teach me how to do that. it will be hard when he lives 400 miles from me but when he is a little older im going to drive there once a month and do just that. now im planning the banjo im going to rebuild to give to him. its just started for you.
LOL , Johnson 1942 I understand . Only difference mine will be harmonica .
Preacher Jim
01-05-2017, 08:53 PM
Boaz you are truly a blessed man. A godly daughter is the greatest gift God can give us.
I feel for the fellow who she chooses to marry her will have to be a special person.
buckwheatpaul
01-05-2017, 08:57 PM
Charlie, I told you that you had a good one.....Becky is a joy and one that makes you proud.....Hope you all are surviving the cold weather since the barbed wire fence is down and nothing to stop the north winds....Paul
DANG IT ! Ya'll are makin me nervous . Not trying to brag ...just express my joy that she is thinking . Praise troubles me , I promote myself as lacking (which I am) basically uneducated (which I am) , That I am searching (which I am ) . I know my short comings , I'm workin on it .
We all need work ....will never end . But the work is gratifying and fulfilling by growth in our relationship with GOD . Regardless of our pecking order here from President to a cotton picker we will stand in line to be judged at his throne . Importance here is nothing . That he knows you is everything . I will speak ...that's it , that we all speak to praise him , to witness , to try and practice discipleship . To love one another as he commanded , to try with his help . Be a messenger , spread the gospel ! That you succeed is in his hands , that you tried is everything .
USMC87
01-05-2017, 10:33 PM
Amen Charlie, I am so happy to hear of Becky's growth and your well pleased spirit.
GhostHawk
01-06-2017, 09:46 AM
Right on Boaz, we are all flawed one way or another. No one of us is/was perfect except for God's son sent to save us. He was perfect.
We are not expected to be perfect. Just be the best yourself that you can be.
Blackwater
01-06-2017, 02:09 PM
DANG IT ! Ya'll are makin me nervous . Not trying to brag ...just express my joy that she is thinking . Praise troubles me , I promote myself as lacking (which I am) basically uneducated (which I am) , That I am searching (which I am ) . I know my short comings , I'm workin on it .
Dirty Harry said, "A man's GOT to know his limitations." One of the greatest boons in our lives is to know ours. We all have them. But it's also said that "God doesn't make junk," and we are ALSO, VERY much more than we often realize, and MUCH more capable than we truly like to face up to. We just have a very hard time dealing with and sometimes suppressing what WE want in order to do God's will in our lives. And what WE do in OUR lives affects all those around us, and most pronoouncedly, our offspring. We all have more than enough to do great work. So many, many simply decide not to even try to USE what we have been given, to achieve what we really CAN in this life, and just take the much easier course of just doing what WE want, rather than what we know God intendes for us to do. It's a constant challenge being "human," and we spend much more time, if we're wise, fighting and arguing with our own selves, than we do fighting with the world around us. It's when we realize that "higher calling" that we find the strength and motivation to really try to see and do God's will rather than our own.
God bless you and Becky. You could be poster children for Parent/Child relationships, even though neither of you is perfect - just like we all are not "perfect." You'd both do to "ride the rive with," wherever rivers flow.
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you have remained in Him and have produced beautiful fruit and he and you will grow her and some day she shall produce fruit of her own. Who said you can't take it with you
In honesty I don't know how to reply to the many comments of praise for me . Never did deal well with praise . A loner in early life , relied on myself ...too independent . Drove to prove myself through my work . Not GOD"S work but pure labor . Yea , I always went to church and did his work too but had to prove myself to me . A failing ! I didn't focus , the priorities were mislaid . My focus should have been his work . I'll tell a story , many seem to like the oilfield stories . (Maybe not , lol !)
1973 oilfield was slow here , called my cousin Buster in Woodward OK , he had a drilling mud business . Told him I needed a roughneck job ...floor hand , derricks , motorman ...anything . He got me a floor job with Verson Chocan Drilling as a floor man . Hired out to a driller named Tom , stayed in Vici OK at the Duce of Hearts Motel .
Were drilling 14,000 feet , a dang deep hole back then ! Had gas sniffers , drilled first 8000 feet with pure water (unheard of in my country , we generally mudded up under surface because of potential gas blow out ) . Next 2000 feet drilled with natural gas , had wind indicators , if wind changed and was blowing back tord the rig we ignited it with roman candles to keep the rig from burning ....LOL , don't think they would do that now . Mudded up after the gas an TD'd (finished) the hole .
Time to complete the well . Several hands quit , it's sphincters and elbows during completion , running pipe and cementing in and we were going to run 3 long strings of pipe (Heck of a lot of work non stop ) . I doubled over on the other crews for 2 and a half days ...solid work , no let up . No sleep , little sit down ....just getting it . Many worms on the other crews (worm ; new hand , worthless...no experience ) . Was running the cathead dragging in pipe t the v door , had to run down help the worm put clamp protectors on the thread end . To start I was just jumping up on the catwalk (bout 4 1/2 feet tall , by near end got a 5 gal bucket to step up to the cat walk ...was gone , wore out , not thinking right .
Floor hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZxUiFFVEAQ
lol more floor hands;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLALzUft8Y
Comin out of the hole with pipe filled with fluid (wet string ; pure torment if it's cold ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=836SgmztsTo
Pine Baron
01-07-2017, 10:28 AM
"To start I was just jumping up on the catwalk (bout 4 1/2 feet tall , by near end got a 5 gal bucket to step up to the cat walk ...was gone , wore out , not thinking right ."
Uh oh, this doesn't sound like it's going to end well.
Lol , Pine Baron your getting ahead of the story . But yes your right !
Nother pretty good vid on how drilling rigs do what they do , if you are curious . Much more high tech than my day but same exact methodology with modern equipment . I enjoyed it .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9TU-4OKMuE
skeettx
01-07-2017, 07:06 PM
Wonderful gift to have children listening to the Lord
SWEET
Mike
Hickory
01-07-2017, 07:26 PM
Raise up a child in the way they should go
and when they are old they will not depart from it.
Raise up a child in the way they should go
and when they are old they will not depart from it.
Thank you brother . You put up the right verse , could be none more appropriate . We are responsible , no one else . I have been active in church all my life , seen the bus's bring in the kids that the parents ship off so they sleep late or just get shut of em . If the parents don't come it is for naught . If we as their parents do not teach them , do not give a living example ...they will fail . It's up to us and that includes grandparents . They may falter , they may stumble but they will have a way to come back if we teach them . We believe in a merciful GOD .
castalott
01-07-2017, 08:35 PM
“Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander.
Father.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest
That quote applies to you too, Boaz....
The floor hand videos made these eyes water.... I worked the smaller rigs ( doubles) and everything (tongs and flip chain) were a lot handier... If you knew what you were doing AND if all worked together...there really wasn't much work to it... Except rig up/down days about every 7 days... I was on daylights and got to know that old rig pretty well...
Such a change... back then i could pick up 2 man slips with one hand... now I have trouble getting out of bed.... LOL
Dale
Went to get up on the catwalk , was reacting by routine , roat , just zombie like ...no awareness not being aware or on guard ...not good . Stepped on the bucket , weaked ,not thinking right put my knee on the catwalk , heard the singing .
Blackwater
01-07-2017, 10:33 PM
I've done water well drilling, but nothing on the scale of an oil rig. It can all be dangerous, and you REALLY have to keep alert and on the ball for things to go right. I have a friend who was a roughneck and a driller way back when, and he still loves to tell the stories, and I love to listen to them. When you work with guys you KNOW you can depend on, and you get to see the results of all your hard labor, and know within your own self that you've made a difference in a positive direction, we call that "having a good time." And it sticks with us. Even moreso when you have a very difficult job, and got through it all safely, and did a really good job. It's called "pride" and "satisfaction," but the pride part isn't what the PC folks talk about today. It's a type of pride that's tempered by humility, borne of the certain knowledge that if you hadn't done well, you could well have gotten killed, or maybe killed another crew member. That ain't no small thing! Folks who still do that type of work, just don't get the appreciation or respect they deserve. But to a man, that's not why they do it. They do it because of the wages, and the challenge. Most just want to see if they CAN do it and survive. That's the kind of pioneer spirit that made this country what it once was. Now, with all the whiners and complainers who seem to be essentially saying "Mama come clean me," those folks are REALLY special now. They and others like them are the backbone of the nation. They're what keeps us going, so most can have such an "easy" life, free to go and do what they want, be warm in winter, etc, etc, etc.
Most folks have become so inurred by the "heroes" amongst us, and take them so much for granted, that it's a wonder anybody still wants to do things like they do. But again, they don't do it for the praise or status or anything but self-respect, self-satisfaction, and for the challenge. Some folks are still up to a good challenge in this world. Thank God for all of you.
Thanks Blackwater . My oilfield stories mainly show weakness . I tried to prove my worth to me . Interesting maybe but should have in investing in doing more of his work . I have no idea why he saved me . I should not have survived it , I was stupid , reckless . Trying to prove my worth to myself when it should have been working for his glory . YOUTH ! Dang we all had to bear it , live through it by his grace .
castalott
01-08-2017, 01:12 PM
Such a change in times... I started little throwing hay bales on the wagon.... I 'HAD" to prove I could do it to dad... I gave all my employers everything I had everyday... I had to prove I could do it.... I doubt I proved anything to anyone except Dale is an idiot...
The kids today aren't trying to prove anything....leave 'em alone so they can play video games....
Dale
Most of us old guys had expectations put on us as children . You help the family ...whatever that happened to be . Our fate /future was bound as a family , it demanded we work together . Seems most young folks have got a free ride in the responsibility aspect of family . I'm not going to bash them but do pity them not having that caring put in them .
Blackwater
01-08-2017, 05:42 PM
Great point, Boaz. When we remove the expectations, what have kids got to motivate them but their wills? And what gets us humans into more trouble than OUR wills? We don't teach them God's will, and leave them to their own. No wonder so many are turning out like they are today. And expectations have to have some sort of enforcement - some price to pay when they don't live up to our expectations. When we lead and teach them the right things, they may do it grudgingly at first, but at some point, most see the light and come to understand WHY we do this, and that it's because we love them.
It's much like what God does with us who believe. He disciplines us when we need and demand it, and He does it because He loves us, NOT because he's mad at us or has forsaken us. So many people can't make heads or tails out of how things work, but it's 99 44/100% because they haven't really addressed themselves to considering it. Neglect always breeds problems and ills, and worse. If we neglect our "studying to show thyself approved," the result is misunderstanding who and what God really is, and how He works. We even begin to wonder if he DOES love us! This is fed by Satan's minions, too, and so many young folks fall for it because WE didn't teach them, and neglected our duty to them, and even to our own selves.
You never did that. Thank God for guys like you who understand our obligations to our young. It extends FAR further than just supplying them with food, shelter and clothing! You did well. I think you should savor the effects of your labors. You deserve it. We don't have to be perfect to do God's will or get good results. We just have to be willing, and able to submit ourselves to our duties. Ya' done good, Boaz. REAL good. Enjoy it. Both of you!
Running the casing you slip a metal hard rubber protector on the thread end the protect the threads as you drag em into the V door to be used running the string (total connected string of pipe to reach bottom) . The power tong crew unclamps the protector and slides it down a small cable line to the far end of the catwalk on the ground to be reused .
I put my knee on the catwalk , heard the singing of a protector coming down above my head on the cable . Turned my head around and caught a (guess?) a 5 pound protector full in the face traveling bout 25 MPH . Knocked me off the catwalk in the wheat field dust . Was dazed as heck , thinking or at least trying to think .
Layed there , back then it was like a football game . Others gave you a chance to get up on your own . Remember laying there trying to get some sense back , Haliburtion hands watching me from the end of the catwalk waiting to help . Power tong crew up on the rig floor shut down , looking over the rail but too far away to help . Drug my hand across my face and was covered with blood . Didn't think I could get up .
I'll bet those few seconds you were out was some of the best rest you had that week
been there done that have the scares to prove it. I've seen stares but have never been all the way out
Blackwater
01-09-2017, 01:11 PM
:-D And even that wasn't as difficult and trying as raising Becky, was it? :mrgreen: But you DID it. And THAT is what MATTERS!
Raising Becky has been a cake walk ! GOD has blessed me with her because after raising my son I know . I had to struggle getting him to adulthood alive . LOL
johnson1942
01-09-2017, 07:43 PM
boys you just try to keep alive, girls is about not letting some jerk get a hold of her. i was know as the talaban dad when my last daughter went to high school. mess with her and you messed with me. i would never ever interfere with the good boys but the jerks knew who i was and stayed away. fear is a good factor.
Blackwater
01-10-2017, 05:41 PM
Amen, Johnson! PC says we should treat them all alike, but that's never been the case. I admire someone with the courage of his convictions, and the will to see them through. Greatly!
I'm all over this johnson1942 , That age they are easy mislead .
Blackwater
01-12-2017, 03:36 PM
The world is full of temptations and some are very alluring, at first, at least. Strength in our belief is all that can really counter it all. You've done a great job, Charlie. Now, it's a lot more up to her than it is you. Your job is near completion. Now, the biggest thing you CAN do is just pray for her, and let her know you do this. The rest is inevitably, and rightfully, up to her, according to the way God made it all work in this world. Be there as her "safety net" if she ever needs it, of course. And now, you mostly just have to love her. That alone is a very powerful influence at this point. Let her know she can talk to you about literally anything, and that you won't get angry, but will listen and give advice if she wants it. But it's really all up to her now. When young folks realize this, it's usually pretty humbling for them. God bless you both.
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