I’m heading to warmer climes tonight … Kansas. Believe it or not, many schools were canceled here in Western North Carolina today due to snow and ice.
God willing, I’ll be present tomorrow — December 15th — for Saidna BASIL’s enthronement as Bishop of Wichita and Mid-America.
May God grant him many years!
A full report, or shall I say a report, ahem — in toto — forthcoming.
Prayers coveted.
I sent my old football coach my reminiscences — CULLYROCK — and here follows his response, which was handwritten.
Dear Huneycutt,
What a blast!
Having a great weekend at North Stanly was great and receiving your epistle was icing on the cake.
I have always wondered what went on in the heads of the players I coached. Now I know why they always referred to me as that “sweet old boy” and only used the initials. All this time I thought I was just a kind, generous and softhearted old guy, and I saw Elvis at Walmart today.
I remember your fondness for music. I remember you had your own group and did a miming takeoff on the group KISS, with lights, smoke and all.
Please give my regards to any of the folks that were at the get-together, and especially to those who were not, that you see.
Again, thanks for the “review,” you didn’t just make my day, you made my decade.
Now I have to go read it again for the eleventh time. So far I have not been able to get through it without tearing-up, partly with laughter and part nostalgia.
I have never been much on setting goals, choosing routes or shooting at specific targets. Maybe I was afraid of failing to attain them or maybe I just like adventure and surprises. I usually just went where the wind carried me and thought there was a reason for it. Anyway, I am glad that part of my “shot gun” approach gave me 5 years in Stanly County. I tell my wife every place we have been was because we were supposed to be there.
Please excuse the penmanship, it was not good before I had a hole in my retina! I am hanging tough in the fourth quarter and giving thanks daily.
Love ya,
Coach
P.S. Old coaches never die, they just “kick off.”
As a connoisseur of pop culture and a student of the art of comedy, the following parody [HERE] of last year’s #1 hit, “Hey Ya,” is, to me, a work of art. In other words, it’s funny.
(While they were singing the refrain, “Hanukkah,” my two year old said they were singing “Huneycutt!” That’s probably the closest an outcast ever got to the chosen 🙂
Thanks to Dawn Eden for the link.
Khouriya Gigi Baba Shadid of St George Cathedral in Wichita, KS, has produced a CD of her own compositions of educational and fun songs created specifically to help Orthodox children “grow in their faith in Christ and their love for His holy Church.” Designed for use in the home, Church Schools, Vacation Bible Schools, Family Nights, Summer Camps, etc., Gigi has also produced an accompanying Teacher’s Resource Manual and a Song Book to help in using the CD as a creative catechetical tool. The price per CD is $12 (with discounts available for orders of 11 or more), while the Teacher’s Resource Manual is priced at $5.00 per copy and the Song Book at $3.00 (all plus shipping and handling). For more information, contact Gigi.
The phone rings late in the evening, an anguished orthodox rector is on the other end of the line. “David, my people won’t wait much longer. They want out. What do we do, where do we go? Will the Primates finally act in February? What can the Network do for us? Will there be a proto province? After February I believe all bets are off. I am going to lose 40 to 60 percent of my congregation. Do I go with them? Do I stay with the remainder? What can the Network really do to save me and my people? I don’t trust my bishop. He says he is orthodox, but then in the next breath he says unity is everything and if anyone leaves he will go after them. He wants us all to
stay. Things will change he tells us. Frank Griswold won’t be around forever. But the truth is my people won’t stay, and the giving is down. People are not going to put money into a church they don’t believe in any more and doesn’t have a gospel to proclaim and pushes sodomy. They have drawn the last line in the sand, they are going. “What do I do?”
Read the whole story by David Virtue here.
