Light Posting This Weekend
9YOD has an intestinal virus. The way those usually progress around here is youngest to oldest, so I figure 13YOD will wake up in the middle of the night tonight, and tomorrow it will move on to me. By the time it gets to Dear Husband, it’s generally been weakened by all that jumping around. I hope so for his sake.
Actually I’m hoping the rest of us dodge the bullet.
April 21st, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Kathy,
We just went through that a few weeks ago. Down like dominoes we fell. Hope your clan fares better than mine.
Cheers to staying well!
Kimberly
April 21st, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Thanks, Kimberly! Sorry y’all had to go through it. No fun.
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:38 am
(peeks inside cautiously) Is it safe to come home?
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:55 am
I think so. We’ve made it for 24 hours without anyone else getting sick.
August 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Yesterday for whatever reason, Rick was on my mind. I knew he was in evangelism, so I googled his name, that’s when I found out about his infidelity.
I lived in Timberlakes/Timberridge, off I-45/Sawdust-rayford road, spring, texas. I graduated from McCullough HS in 1980. I do not know if I have ever met Donna Jones, if I have it’s been 28+ yrs ago since I had any contact with her.
Before I continue, I must give you some background. Rick was my youth minister at Oak Ridge Bapt church. He came to Oak Ridge in the summer before my freshman yr in HS. We lived in the same area, and at that time were very close. He was good friends with my family. On, Thursday mornings we had BASIC, brothers and sisters in Christ, a weekly Bible study for High schoolers and middle schoolers. Either he picked me up to go to it or I picked him up. I spent a lot of time with Rick. I admired and respected him, I loved him as my brother in Christ and my mentor. I even wrote a poem that basicaly said, I admired him, but not really him, but the Christ inside that I saw. We prayed together, he told touching stories and illustrations. The youth at Oak Ridge would go with him to the various churches where he preached revivals. He had some of the most indepth Bible studies which I have ever heard, his messages were touching and heart felt, bringing you closer to God. I was one of 6 or 7 youth which had felt God’s calling into the ministry. He taught a class on Sunday evenings on preaching and teaching. We would preach or teach, then be critiqued on what we did right or wrong with the presentation, and on whether the topic had Bibical standing.
Our youth group grew to close 200 members, he established a youth council, which was voted on by the entire youth group, to help plan the yearly calender of teaching and events for our youth group. For 3 years, I was the youth council president.
My jr yr in high school, we did a mission/choir trip. When we returned, we even recorded an albumn at 1st Bapt houston. Rick told us a week or so later that he was leaving to be youth minister at 1st Bapt Houston.
Not too long after that, Rick was spending days and nights at his office at 1st Baptist. Then he and his first wife, Deb, seperated. Deb divorced Rick due to his infidelity at that time with a high school senior, who was 18 yrs old. There were rumors even then that there was other girls which Rick had inappropriate conduct with. Some of which I heard directly from the young ladies mouths, but in respect to their privacy, and it has been 28+ yrs, I will not divulge their names.
A few years back when I heard he had established a church and that it was growing, and that he had a family, and he was into evagelism, I was very excited. Rick had always been in my prayers, and I felt God had annointed Rick with tremendous talent to spread his word.
I believe that Rick did not reveal the complete story. When people compare Riok to King David. David fell before the Lord and man, confessing that he had commited murder and adultery. Rick’s confession seems to fall short of the full truth. I love Rick, my brother in Christ, and I will keep him in my prayers. I do believe that Rick has/had a special annointing, but like Sampson, he may have let it slip away.
What is forgotten in all this is Rick’s first wife Deb, and their 2 children.
I’m praying for all those involved.
Floyd Sanson