SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!!!

Just a short message to ask for prayers tomorrow morning as I am singing the special music for Sunday morning services during the offertory.  It is the first time in over 15 years I have done this and I am very nervous, but it is a song I've done before.  It's just a different version.  I just want to praise God, but I don't want to be way off key.  My Mom and three brothers have the singing voices, but I'm going to give it the ole' Alford try.  I'm trying to be more active in many areas of my life.  Thanks in advance.

HELLO, OUT THERE!

This is an entry to say I'm back to blogging.  I had half a page written and somehow lost it, so the story goes: blah, blah, blah. 

Because of the hour I am going to sign off for now and will start another entry tomorrow. 

Bye for now.

IT'S AMAZING

My nephew's girlfriend is really great.  I've only met her once, last Thanksgiving, but I knew I liked her from the start.  As you can see, I am new at blogging.  I didn't have a profile picture and wanted to add new things to my site and she has been very helpful and gracious.  Through the wonderful world of IM, she walked me through the many steps to picking and downloading a pic.  I don't know that I will ever have a pic of me on the site because it might scare people away, but if I do, I know who to ask to help me.  It's getting late and I haven't had my nightly game of Spider Solitaire yet, so this is it for tonight.  More in the very near future, as now I am hooked.

FIRST REAL OFFICIAL BLOG ENTRY

I was checking out the toolbar and thought I'd see the different font styles and WHOA!  Didn't know there were so many different ones.

I thought I would start out by explaining my Blog name and my E-mail name.  If you have read my likes you'll notice  I  have this thing about angels.  I believe there are Angels Among Us. (I also like C&W music and that is a title to a song by the group Alabama).  Angels can be friends; some you can see and some you can't; they are in many different places.  More on angels in a minute.

A very dear friend, as a matter of fact, my very best friend for several years was taken in March 1994 after a brave battle with AIDS.  At the time I was living in the Houston suburb of Pearland.  He was one of those friends that you could share your darkest secrets and you knew he wouldn't tell a soul.  We could laugh together, cry together and play together and we did all of this until he was too weak to get out and around any more.  I lived with him and his roommate for the final year of his life and he was such a blessing even though he was in constant pain and his health was failing.  Even when he was around strangers or acquaintances he could make people smile.    He had taken a trip to the Hill Country (Teralingua, TX) with friends.  I was unable to go this particular time.   I had made the trip with him a couple of times before and he had confided in me before that that is where he wanted to die;  in God's beauty.  I miss him terribly, but I know he went on to a much better place with no more pain and suffering for him and his frail body.  He was only 35 years young.

Anyway, back to my e-mail name.  David loved zebras!  He had so many things that were black and white.  When he had to use a wheelchair, his mom made a thin fluffy cushion for him and she made it out of zebra material.  Also, listed in my likes are bears.  This is how I arrived at the screen name zebrabear.  Shortly after David passed away, I started hearing the song, Angels Among Us an awful lot and that is when I really started the "ANGEL" interest in my life.

There is a saying: Only the good die young!.  He had such a loving, giving gentle spirit and he touched so many lives by just knowing them.  I would love to make that kind of impression on someone.

So much for this first official blog that is more that 2 or 3 lines long.  If you read this and have friends that would like to sign in to my blog, that would be great.

Hope everyone is having a great day.

HELLO!!