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Way O/T..sorry!

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Paul Shuler

02-22-2005 23:33:00




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This is way off topic and I'm sorry. I consider most of you on here like family and I just wanted to share this with you. I posted on here a few months ago about my wife and I purchasing 11 acres. We have been married 24 years and it had been a dream of ours to own a small peice of ground. Just got our barn up and permits to start on the house. I checked with the planning and zoneing dept. three times just to make sure there wasn't going to be a Wal-mart or something go up right next to us. Was out on our land Monday afternoon when one of the neightbors came up to talk. He said I guess you heard the news. I said what. They are going to put a four lane road right through our place and yours. I thought he was jokeing. Didn't sleep all night. Went back to planning and zoneing and they confirmed what he told me. The airport got a $55 million grant from the Fed. Gov. and they are going to put in this new access road. She could tell I was devastated, we have sold all we had and pulled our kids from thier schools to follow this dream.She said they couldn't have warned me about this because they just have drawn it all up since the grant came through. She sent me to the admistrator of the CO roads and hi ways. The first thing I told him was I prayed in the truck before I came in here and I will accept whatever you have to tell me. This is bad news, but I have my family and I can start over if I need to.He told me that the road Idea had been scrapped and they where going to build a access road off the interstate more than a mile from my house and it wont affect me or my neighbors at all.Why did I write this? Just to say that the LORD we serve loves and cares for us even though we don't derserve anything. This was so small in relation to those who may be faceing health problems and the like. It just renews my faith to know he cares about even the small issues in our lifes. So sorry for rambeling on. Just wanted to share my blessing with my family here. Oh by the way... I love red tractors,there, I said it.
Paul

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biggerred

02-23-2005 20:56:37




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Thats great!! Brother, you never have to say "Sorry" when it comes to praising God!!



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Brown Dirt Cowboy

02-23-2005 17:33:51




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Paul hope you and the family are in that new house in no time. Next time I am in Springfield I am going to try to meet you and Jimmy King. Called your house last year when I was in town and you were "gone fishin'". Tom



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El Toro

02-23-2005 14:31:00




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Hi Paul, Glad to here that it's just an access
road instead of a 4 lane highway. Here's a story
of a girl that worked for me, she's really a lady
since she will turn 51 in March. She won $187000.00 at Dover Downs in Delaware playing the slots. That would buy a lot of those red tractors. Hal



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Michael Soldan

02-23-2005 12:22:59




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Paul, I hope that 11 acres raises 11 fat calves for you each year, sure glad things worked out for you ....Mike in Exeter Ontario



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Dave_Id

02-23-2005 10:37:49




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Praise the Lord, but you are still stuck in Missouri... (Just kidding about the Missouri crack) Well, maybe not, I visited Cassville a couple of years ago, and darn near passed out from the heat and humidity. And those zakadas or whatever they are called, were just plain spooky.



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jayw

02-23-2005 09:32:42




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Paul Im glad it worked out for ya , My late Father once told me that God allways looked out for fools and Farmers sometime we all fall in 1 of those catagories, Seems lately I fall in both LOL.



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Brianbws

02-23-2005 07:25:20




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Not off topic at all! I'm very pleased that you and you family are living out you're dreams. Do you think that the big guy is a farmall man (or woman, dont want to offend:) )



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Bill in NC

02-23-2005 06:47:48




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Paul,
Glad to hear your prayers were answered. It is possible the Good Lord may have given your family a great gift in that you get to enjoy your land during your lifetime and your children get to enjoy a large investment return during their lifetime as 11 acres located near an airport and a four lane road may eventually be worth a great deal to developers thirty to fifty years from now.

My sister married into a Houston-area family that were plain ole cattle folks that made a bunch of money over the past century by buying land to raise cattle that was eventually bought from them because the city grew out to their ranch (what we call a farm in NC, Texans call a ranch). It is called being in the path of growth. Each time they sold out they would buy land further out to raise their cattle and did this something like three times over a 70 year period. It made the family a lot of money. Just my $0.02.

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Shepherd_Bill

02-23-2005 06:39:11




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Thanks Paul and the rest of you. I needed this. Went to a "Christian" discussion board and didn't find anything helpful. I think God is a tractor person as well.



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Jimmy King

02-23-2005 05:59:52




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Amen, Paul. Now the question is does Springfield really need that new termanial building. I for one will still fly out of Tulsa until they lower the prices a bunch in Spfd.



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Harley

02-23-2005 07:33:03




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Jimmy King, 02-23-2005 05:59:52  
That's my take on it Jimmy. Down here in Chadwick it seems like when they get 4 more people than they can handle they either build something or bring in a new airline. The next week business is slow and that same new airline leaves. Has happened 3 or 4 times in the last few years. Have to have a program to keep up with the players. Harley in Chadwick



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John A.

02-23-2005 04:45:38




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Paul, AMEN, When we take our eyes off the Lord we sink, Just as Peter did when he came to Jesus on the water. Looks to me your eyes were firmly afixed on Him!
Later,
John A.



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Andy Martin

02-23-2005 05:25:00




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to John A., 02-23-2005 04:45:38  
No item is too small for God!

And none is too large.



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scotty

02-23-2005 04:33:14




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Mornin Paul, I can relate to what your saying, even nothing like that has ever happened to me. I can see myself breaking out in a cold sweat hearing news like that! As bad as that news could have been, the good Lord kept you and your family healthy which much more important than a piece of property. So glad to see things worked out for the best!

scotty



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Dixieland

02-23-2005 04:27:13




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
I love happy endings....God bless.



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Nebraska Cowman

02-23-2005 04:08:38




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Things work out OK as long as we don't get to fighting God.



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SGT K

02-23-2005 00:19:00




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
No apology needed for me, take a deep breath and enjoy your blessings.
Good Luck,
Paul



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SproutW

02-23-2005 00:14:27




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to Paul Shuler, 02-22-2005 23:33:00  
Great story and I'm glad to hear things worked out for you and the family.



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Brian in NY

02-23-2005 07:58:27




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 Re: Way O/T..sorry! in reply to SproutW, 02-23-2005 00:14:27  
Paul---

It is a real relief to hear that things have made a turn for the better. Sometimes things like that can make you feel like the whole world is turned upside down...and until you get your perspective straight, it tears on you hard.

Now that God has opened this door for you, you "owe him one". He doesn't want money or worship or things of that nature.
He wants you to open your heart and mind and let him work through you. You won't know what it is what he is looking for you to do...but if you listen he will tell you. Just don't forget how you feel right now...and draw on that to give you the energy or motivation to do his will.

I, like many others here, have been very richly blessed over the years....and I am not talking about material things. And as long as I keep passing on the blessings, they seem to keep coming...even though sometimes they are in disguise.

Good luck,
Brian

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