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Page 4 ★ Joshua Star ★ Thursday, November 8, 2012
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DEVOTIONAL
AGRICULTURE
Be like Mike?
4-H provides youth with many opportunities
No, be like Steve
When you are involved in as much as I am, you come across
incredible people. It’s true that some of them are incredibly aw-
ful, but sometimes, I see the goodness of God in people that to
me, are like heavenly rockstars.
I think some people live among us,
unseen by the masses, who are highly re-
vered from heaven’s perspective. I want
to tell you about somebody like that.
Steve is a good kid who is extremely
mature for somebody his age. At 18,
he works full time and is finishing his
senior year of high school. He is al-
ready signed up with the Air Force and
will spend the next season of his life in
the military and continuing his educa-
tion. He loves the Lord, has a gorgeous
girlfriend and by all accounts, he’s just
really something.
Steve’s mom has been a friend of
mine for several decades. She never remarried after her
husband died 15 years ago and she has dedicated her life
to working two jobs and raising Steve. She has done an
amazing job and Steve would tell you that.
Prom time recently came and Steve wanted to do this
thing right. Being close to his mom he asked her, “So
mom, what made your prom night great and what do you
think I should do?”
“Well, I didn’t go to my high school prom,” she said.
“Why not?” he asked.
“I dont know,” she said sheepishly. “Mostly, I guess
because nobody asked me.”
The next Friday night, Steve came home wearing a tux-
edo and took his mom to the prom, complete with a limo
ride and a ton of flowers.
She is good friends with several of the teachers and she
told them that night, “This is the first date I’ve been on in
a long long time.”
Way to go Steve!
I know that when we are selfless and kind it makes
us stand out as bright purple in a very grey world. Mark
Twain said, “‘Kindness is a language which the deaf can
hear, and the blind can see.” I think you can see the heart
of God in Steve’s actions to his mom and his Mom’s ac-
tions towards him.
Selflessness matters and it’s the greatest way heaven
invades earth. You don’t stand out when you’re rude, self-
ish, controlling or sarcastic.
I encourage you today to make a difference. Make an
effort to selflessly touch somebody’s life. It’s one of the
greatest ways we let our lights shine.
“In the same way, let your light shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Fa-
ther in heaven.”
- Matthew 5:16 (NIV)
Troy Brewer pastors OpenDoor Church in Joshua and
can be found at www.opendoorexperience.com.
Troy
Brewer
Fresh from
the Brewer
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Did you know that 4-H
is the largest youth organi-
zation in America? That’s
right. It is located in every
community across the nation
- urban, suburban and rural.
4-H is in all fifty states in the
United States, every U.S. ter-
ritory and 80 other countries
across the world.
Famous people that have
a 4-H background include
Reba McIntyre, Faith Hill,
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
A1 Gore, Herschel Walker
and Nancy Grace. The best
part is that 4-H is going
strong right here in Johnson
County with more than 300
members.
So, what is 4-H? 4-H is a
community of young people
across America learning
leadership, citizenship and
life skills. 4-H uses more
than a century of experience
in youth development pro-
gramming
to build
strong,
confident
leaders.
Young
people are
encour-
aged to
partici-
pate in a
variety of
activities
that em-
phasize a
“learn by doing” philosophy
of youth development.
4-H first started as a way
for agricultural leaders to
teach producers improved
methods of crop production
in the early 1900s. It seemed
easier to teach youth the new
production technology than
adults, so the first clubs were
created. Since that time,
4-H has expanded rapidly
Kristen
Greer
Johnson County
Agriculture
to include more than 1,000
hands-on projects in which
youth can participate.
Youth can visit other
counties and states while
participating in camps, field
trips, conferences and con-
tests. 4-H even helps teens
compete for scholarships
so they can go on to study
at great Texas colleges and
universities. 4-H in Texas
is provided by Texas A&M
AgriLife Extension Service,
working with The Texas
A&M University System
and your federal, state and
county governments. With
its direct connection to land-
grant universities, 4-H is the
first experience many young
people have with higher
education.
The 4-H motto, “To Make
the Best Better,” exemplifies
the way that 4-H can impact
today’s youth. Studies show
that 4-H members do better
in school, are more moti-
vated to help others, feel safe
to try new things, achieve
a sense of self-esteem and
develop lasting friendships.
4-H members use the four
H’s - Head, Heart, Hands
and Health - to become
better leaders and better
citizens.
The 4-H program is open
to any youth between the
ages of 9-19. In Johnson
County, there are 10 4-H
clubs and plenty of activities
to keep you busy. To learn
more about how you can get
involved, contact the John-
son County Extension office
at 817-556-6370.
Kristen Greer is the
Johnson County agricul-
tural extension agent re-
sponsible for 4-H and youth
development.
COMMENTARY
Guess what I learned while voting
Did you know that there
are at least 63 different
varieties of yogurt at your
neighborhood grocery store?
Well, there are. I know this
because I counted them. No,
I am not a yogurt researcher,
nor am I one of those strange
men who like to hang out in
supermarkets for hours on
end.
I just happened to spend
an hour and a half yogurt-
gazing at the local store with
my wife recently because
that’s where they told us
to go if we wanted to vote
early. Sue and I figured if we
did our patriotic duty ahead
of schedule we’d miss the
big lines on Super Duper
Tuesday. Ha! The voting line
at the grocery store snaked
from the pharmacy, through
the book aisle, down the
cheese section, across the
milk and eggs and all the
way down the 63 varieties
of yogurt. Hence the ad hoc
study of the bacterially fer-
mented dairy products.
I’ll also bet you didn’t
know that there are at least a
dozen types of Greek yogurt,
whatever that is. I immedi-
ately assumed that Greek
yogurt was an economically
troubled brand of yogurt
requiring a financial bailout
from all the other European
Union yogurts, but, no, Sue
said it has more to do with
how it’s strained for whey
Roger
White
This Old
Spouse
content.
Oh. That
got me
wonder-
ing what
exactly
whey is,
but I’ll
leave
that for
another
column.
Any-
way,
although
this particular lesson in
civic participation was mind-
numbing for the most part,
it did give the wife and me
some time to get reacquaint-
ed without two teenagers
constantly yelling, scream-
ing, demanding money or in-
sisting on being ferried from
one end of town to the other
every 20 minutes or so.
I was surprised to learn
that Sue is now teaching
herself yoga and is approxi-
mately a quarter of the way
to obtaining her master’s
degree in business adminis-
tration. Man, we have to talk
more. So, yes, we considered
our voting experience more
like a date night with ballots
and photo IDs.
As we waited our turn,
my mind meandered a bit.
I noticed a sign way at the
front of the line indicat-
ing that you could pay your
utility bills and purchase
money orders here, and I
was seized with a temporary
panic that perhaps we were
in the wrong line. The terror
subsided when I saw that
nobody else in our eternal
cue was clutching util-
ity bills. Besides, I’d never
heard of an hour-and-a-half
wait to pay the light bill, so I
breathed easy.
By the time we had ad-
vanced through the cheese
section to the book aisle, I’d
begun to seriously consider
the “one vote doesn’t really
matter” excuse for bailing
out, but Sue would have
none of it. Anyway, we’d
already put in a good hour,
and we could actually see the
voting booths now.
It was about this time,
as we inched through the
pharmacy and within sight
of actual, real-life volunteers
at the actual, real-life voting
tables, that I concocted the
concept of Vote ’n Tote. If
you’ve visited a major, hei-
nously overcrowded amuse-
ment park recently (I won’t
name names, but the one I
have in mind begins with an
“S” and ends in “ix Flags”),
then you’ve likely had experi-
ence with the infamous Flash
Pass. For serous extra money,
this electronic doodad actu-
ally lets you cut in line ahead
of the amusement park riff
raff. How apple pie, capitalist
American is that? You got the
dough, you get to go.
Voting, also as American
as pie and guns and freedom
and liberty, would be all the
more red, white, and blue if
you could move to the front
of the line by way of the ol’
green. Don’t you think? Say
you buy $30 worth of grocer-
ies, you get to jump in front
of 30 non-buying voters.
Forty bucks of foodstuffs gets
you 40 people ahead, and
so on. You shell out a couple
hundred and you go straight
to the front of line - and you
get to vote twice. Or some-
thing like that. Vote ’n’ Tote.
Of course, this works only
if you vote at the grocery
store. If the polls in your
neighborhood are, say, at the
hospital, you may have to
undergo surgery or get a flu
shot to avoid the lines. Could
call it Election Injection.
Antidote Vote? Hmm. Now,
this concept may not work at
all at some polling stations.
For example, at the sewage
treatment plant. Cast ’n’
Cra... naah. I’m not touching
that one. Actually, I’m not
aware of any voting centers
ever being set up in sew-
age treatment plants, but it
does seem quite appropriate
somehow, given the tenor of
politics these days.
Roger White can be con-
tacted at oldspouse.word-
press.com.
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