I Beat my score in Putt Putt

Tonight we went to Putt Putt golf tonight and I got 5 Holes in One and i beat my score. I got a 39 that is 3 over pro par - Woooooo Hooooo! Just thought everyone should now. Chaundra got 3 holes in one and a score of 44 - 1 under amateur par. All in all it was a good night.

Home Depot - It is what's for Dinner

I don't believe the statement "Opposites Attract!" anymore. My wife is as strange as I am. You can tell from my weird blog titles. Not that I haven't had one of those before. What do I mean by "Home Depot - It is what’s for Dinner!" Well earlier, about a couple of weeks ago, my wife asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday. At the time I didn't have an answer and then I got to thinking about all of the things we need to buy to finish remodeling our bathroom. So as we were getting ready for bed I told her - "Why don't we have a Home Depot Birthday?" Just spend the money on getting the stuff to finish it or have some friends over and do a Home Depot Theme.

Well she took it a little more literal than I thought she would. She proceeds to go to the Home Depot, up the road to the house, and ask them a weird question. Laughing so hard that she could barely talk, she asked, "My husband’s birthday is coming up and I was wondering if it would be OK if we could have dinner here?" Yeah, that right a date night at Home Depot. At first they were a little taken aback, but then started getting into it as well. You know their slogan is, "Home Depot - You can do it, we can help." Well they took their slogan as literal as well.

They took a nice metal table and set up a place for us to have supper. They even got orange construction paper and laminated it for placemats. They took some galvanized plumbing pipe and made a candelabra. They put out battery powered candles. They were even thinking about putting a carpet below the table. They were getting just as excited about this as well.

Chaundra got a really good friend of ours to make a cake and mom went to "Ellie's" a Greek restaurant and "Stefano's" an Italian restaurant to get the food for the dinner. I walked in and Alecia sat us at our table like a hostess and helped mom bring in the food. Yes, I am sitting down waiting for my food while a pregnant woman and my mother in law were doing all the work and people were staring at us wondering what was going on. I guess it was a good thing that it wasn't a real busy night.

Chaundra also got our good China out and decorated the table as well. She had a Bouquet of tools in a pot, and the Home Depot put a wooden orange Home Depot car on the table. They even put some balloons out for us. It was ready to go.

She even made me dress up as if we were going someplace fancy. She never really told me where we were going, but then we got to an intersection and a car (A GTO in fact) had stalled out and we could not go around it. I told her to just go into the Home Depot parking lot and we could go around that way. It is amazing how God's sense of humor works out as well. He placed that car there I know it. Then Chaundra told me that she built in some time and we could go into the Home Depot and look around for a little while. I told her that we didn't have time - we had reservations at 7:00 and we only had 15 minutes till we needed to be there. You could say that I had my reservations to going in there. LOL!

Anyway it was one of the most interesting Birthdays that I have ever had. Especially when people would walk by and look with the "What’s going on EYE!"

In the midst Chaundra gave me a card with an electronic message and a gift card to Home Depot. The card said, "I may not be able to pick a star from the sky or cast the moon off its course, but I can certainly take you to dinner tonight at the Home Depot. Happy Birthday - I love you. then it played some music. All in all it was a wonderful night and we got a big laugh out of it. The best part is telling people about it and seeing their reactions.

I want to thank, Chaundra, Mom, Alecia for setting it up. I want to thank Charles, Tom, Joe and the rest of the staff at Home Depot for all their help setting up, decorating and just making it a wonderful birthday experience. Remember "Home Depot - it is what’s for Dinner."

Where is your wicker basket?

Now here is a strange question: "Where is your wicker basket?" Why do I ask? Well simply because of a dream. I usually have some Doozies, but this one was one that I really enjoyed and would have liked to go back to sleep for. Simply for the fact that I went to heaven. The dream started out with something happening and all the sudden I was needing to board a plane to heaven.

I must have died. Well I got my boarding pass, which looked something like a compass and had to go to the ticket booth - which looked something like a passport terminal. There was a nice gentleman that was getting his ticket and after he left, he realized that he forgot something and got back in line. Three people were ahead of him. Each taking longer than normal and the man was getting very frustrated and angry. By the time he got to the ticket counter, he found out because of his attitude that he was going to have to take another flight. I guess you have to check your attitude before you get on the flight to heaven.

Then all the sudden the scene changed and I was on the flight. I remember looking back and seeing a rear window,Kind of like a cars rear window and I was going vertically up towards the sky. It was like the earth was moving away from me. It put a knot in my chest - you could say that it scared me to death. Well if I wasn't dead already anyway. On the way, we were going on all sorts of roads and all of them looked like mother of pearl slides that went in all kinds of different directions. Kind of like the MC Escher painting of the stairs. Then finally we got there.

Next thing I know is that I was being told to go to an area to put my stuff. I had a backpack full of stuff that I must have brought along with me. I am not sure what was in the bag all I know is that it was everything that I had. I guess they were telling me that, that I didn't have to carry around my baggage anymore. I had a place to stay. A gentleman told me that I had the area 23S which happened to be right accross from my Pastor - Dr. Young in 22G. The area with the designated spots remided me of the spa and sauna area that Chaundra and I used at the resort in Lost Pines recently. I looked at the little hole in the wall and wondered to myself is there like a whole room in that little hole. After all we were in heaven and anything was possible. As I looked it was a little wicker basket. I was supposed to sit my backpack in it and start enjoying heaven.

This is when I woke up. Darn that waking! I was going to get to find out what heaven was like and I didn't get my chance. So the moral of the story is: "I don't know! After all it was just a Dream!" Just kidding, I think that it was saying that we don't have to carry around our burdens anymore. God made a way. We pack our bags, but He has a place for them. So if these burdens are like sin, we won't need them anymore. So I will leave you with some scripture:

22This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement,[a] through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. -Romans 3:22-26

So I guess I will ask the question again: "Where is your wicker basket?" Is it your back? Are you carrying around your burdens or sins? Or is it in a hole in the wall where you don't have to carry them around anymore? God made a way! The flight is ready, you just have to get on board. The ticket is Jesus and just like the compass he will show you the way. All you have to do is believe in him and the sacrifice that he gave to get us to God. I hope you have your ticket.

And this concludes this episode of "What Scott Dreams." Turn in next week for another exciting epi... well maybe your never know. God Bless!