This was a good day

[K22]

My dad went home in 2009. But today as I worked on this gun in his garage, with photos of him hanging over the bench, I was taken back to being 9 again. I could smell the Hoppes, feel the insecurity again of holding the can of spray on finsih right (I didn't and there is still a big old run in it!) and I could hear my dad talking to me just like he was right there. "Things" are temporal. People matter. But I do beleive that God has established a connection between things that are temporal and things that matter. I think of the "standing stones" he had his followers set up in places where He met them, saved them, or sent them. All who passed by would remember and "hear God's voice again".
I am grateful to God that He let me hear my dad again as I worked on a little old gun from my childhood.

The smell of #9 is forever part of me.

Guess what, it still works despite the internet.

 

[Toddmack]