DOWN HOME:
It seems like the whole world walks past Big Tex
___Big Tex says to tell you "Howdy." He's still presiding over the State Fair of Texas, and I just spent a full Saturday at his feet.
___Going to the State Fair has become a family tradition at our house. We'll go at least a couple of times this year.
___We don't ride the rides. We don't visit the livestock. We don't drool over the cooking
contests or "oooh" and "aaah" over the handcrafts. We don't visit the exhibits (although I have been known to sneak off to take a peek at the new cars). We go to sell corny dogs.
___Not that I wouldn't rather take a roll on the Ferris wheel, eat a turkey leg and appraise the relative merits of bulls, chickens and flop-eared rabbits.
___But selling corny dogs is a fund-raiser for the Lewisville High School Farmerettes drill team. And as parents of two (not one, but two) LHS Farmerettes, Joanna and I are devotees of fund-raising.
___Even selling corny dogs.
___There's nothing like wrapping hot corny dogs for nine hours as soon as they're plucked out of the deep-fryer to make you thank the good Lord fall only comes once a year.
___Pretty soon, you learn you can wrap them and pick them up as soon as the grease soaks into the cornmeal breading. And before long, you learn to say, "The mustard is right behind you" before corny dog consumers have a chance to wander around for five minutes and come back and ask you anyway.
___We worked at the corny dog booth right across from Big Tex, where live musical acts performed every 30 minutes all day and all night. We sold corny dogs to approximately 659,437 hungry Texans. We worked for nine hours, and I observed several significant facts:
___ Not every woman who can go to the store and buy a bare-midriff tank-top should wear a bare-midriff tank-top.
___ No man who owns sandals, black socks and Bermuda shorts should wear sandals, black socks and Bermuda shorts at the same time.
___ A little bit of bagpipe music goes a long, long way.
___ An even smaller amount of Jamaican pop/rock goes even farther.
___ Whatever kind of underwear people wear is their own business, unless, of course, they're also wearing almost any kind of white shorts.
___ Some people work awfully hard to make a living, and I never should take a good job for granted.
___ The Lord has brought a whole world of people here to Texas, and we Christians have a remarkable opportunity--and challenge--to change their lives by giving them the gospel.
___Which is even better than a corny dog at the State fair.
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