Scott aka Hipsley: August 2007

Best Prayer I Have Heard In A Long Time...

Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in
traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day
and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young
man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in
the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to
addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow
through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are
savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give
us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with
those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.

If you send this to 5 people, then you have a chance to touch 5 people. Working for God on earth doesn't pay much.. . ...but His retirement plan is out of this world.

You can click on the picture to read it or below I will have what I wrote and you can read it that way it will be after this paragraph explaining how we got here.

Athens had been dry for a long long time then they got it to a vote and it passed since then our economy in Athens has been booming. But what bothered me was a Methodist Pastor and then other "Christians" got into this war before we even vote on 8/14/07. Every single week in the Sunday paper for months now prior to getting to the signatures to even have it show up on a ballot and ever since this is like starting May or June. But every Sound Off or Letter to the Editor or 90% give the benefit of the doubt has been all about wet/dry. Dang we wonder why people dont believe Christians because they act like this. To be honest I could careless how the vote goes. I will vote to keep it wet but if you read these articles it would make you sick. I did not make the Headline above my letter. "Are Christians missing the point?" The rest is mine I had to cut it down so there were other things in there.

Dear Editor,
Where is Jesus? I ask that question after reading sound off and letters to the editor the past several weeks. The time and the talent it took to write these over whether or not Athens should be wet/dry. I found my heart shattered as to the body of Christ. It seems if I were deciding whether or not I wanted to join any church especially if I were young and saw this battle I would run like hell. Especially after seeing the article on the front page of The News Courier on July 24, 2007 where Jennifer Lord is basically begging for needed supplies for the elderly and the homebound, paraplegic etc.

I called and talked with Jennifer Lord to offer some things we may have. I also discussed our situation and others. You go by a wellness center and watch these mothers, fathers, sitters wrestle these wheelchairs in and out of vehicles and then get the patient out. I know the routine all to well. Satan is winning if we can keep the Body of Christ this distracted and not take care of the elderly and homebound, paraplegic and Veterans we are in trouble. I say we because I am a sinner myself and do not always use my talents to the best that the Lord would have me do. So here is the body of Christ writing all these letters and not one this Sunday was about the situation Jennifer Lord brought to the Body of Christ attention nothing was offered to help her out I am not saying Jennifer did not get response thier was no crying out from the citizens.

So if its wet or dry those without a bedside commode (THAT'S JESUS) or those without a handicap vehicle (THAT'S JESUS) or Handicapped equipped houses (THAT'S JESUS) Shower benches (THAT'S JESUS) Elevated toilet seats (THAT'S JESUS). They more than likely will not be even able to get to vote. Jesus Wept. For Lord when did I see you without all these things? Will God say to us at the end of this well done my good and faithful servants? Dry/Wet? Jesus Wept.

Call Council on the aging and Jennifer Lord? WWJD?

Basketball had great mentor who could play

That is me on the far left front row. If Renee and Tristan wondered where Papa got so good playing basketball I played 2 years it was called Intermural back then or little league or whatever. But I got so good I played at the beach alot and also played with a guy in this picture he is on the far right back his name was James Allen Dean or Bubba Dean to us. Bubba played intermural and was on the high school team he is the one who nicknamed hipsley which I will explain in another picture. But Bubba at one time held the Florida title for High Jumping in Track and Field he did the fosbery flop and the height he held was 6' 6" as a sophmore in High School. Bubba had alot of athelic abilities. We also played alot in the back yard of Daryl Ziegler my best friend in high school his nickname was Big Zig. There you have my basketball career.

Story behind Sag and Gnaw

This was my freshman year at South Plantation High in Broward County we had been running wind sprints in Ft. Lauderdale where its always HOT and that is me all the way on the ground puking. The caption says Sag & Gnaw. It then says "Once again it's that time of year at Broward high schools. Young men are reporting each sweltry humid afternoon to football tryouts, and after about 2 hours of wind sprints and calisthenics, they kinda sag a little. Later will come the gnawing feeling of anxiety before the first cuts.

Paldin stories

The Paladins this is how I got the name Hipsley I do not know if he is in this picture or the other one but his name was Craig Hipsley He was a strong running back and mowed people over I met him in the hole one day and sent him flying backwards well Bubba Dean was at practice and started calling me Hipsley for I was the New Hipsley and the 77 was my number my mother made a beautiful ceramic in the paladin colors with my number on it I will take a picture and post it. In the color picture I am number 64 at the bottom third in from the right the coach on the right his name was Bill Whorman (sp) and he was also an actor in Flipper and played the mean guy once and stole flipper. This was a brand new school and my class was the first class to complete 4 years at this high school.