Last Tuesday was “Be Kind to Lawyers Day.” Don’t worry, I didn’t know about it either until something unusual happened. Monday afternoon as I was sitting in my office, my administrative assistant told me that I had a visitor. A very nice woman who I had met a couple of times but barely knew had come to see me to give me a chocolate cake that she had bought for me! She told me that she had heard on the radio earlier that day that it was “Be Kind to Lawyers Day” and I was the only lawyer that she knew, so she decided to buy me a cake and bring it to me. I was very surprised! The cake had “Happy Attorneys’ Day” written on it and it was delicious.
Category: <span>Devotional Thoughts</span>
As a church musician, the big holidays of Easter and Christmas seem to have this enormous buildup because there is always a lot of special programs to practice for during the months leading up to the holiday. Right now, we are busy with final preparations for our Easter program which we will present on Friday, April 7 at 7pm and Sunday, April 9, at 6pm at Pleasant Garden Baptist Church. This year’s program features our middle and high school youth, who play prominent roles and came up with the concept and helped write most of the script. I am leading our worship band which will provide the music for the show.
Do you ever have times when you feel like you have it all together? Now, I know I would never get many people to admit that, but I think it’s true. Once in a while, we have days or periods of time when we feel like everything is going well and we’ve got it all figured out and we have finally arrived! And then, of course, we fall or mess up and we realize we still have a long way to go.
My son, Jacob, has recently got into the habit of asking me how old I am. When I reply that I am 44 and will be 45 soon, he reacts as though I’ve just answered that I am 150 years old. “Wow! You are so ooollllddd!” he shouts. This is not the most motivational way to begin your day.
In my past life, I was an Assistant District Attorney prosecuting criminals for the State of North Carolina. One of my biggest regrets in life is that I did not keep a journal during those years of all the crazy things I saw in the courtroom. It definitely would have been an easy book to write!