CHURCH DIRECTORY & DEVOTIONAL No One Enjoys Bland and Dark

cultures is so interesting. No one really wants bland food; we want our food to be savory and to make our tastebuds smile and dance.

On a somewhat related note ( you will see the connection later), I am also a lover of the outdoors. Trees, streams, mountains, lakes, trails, and sandy beaches all beckon to me, and I often heed their calls. If good food is a delight to our tastebuds, then nature is a delight to our eyes; that is, as long as we have the light to enjoy it. I'm not so much a fan of the woods after dark.

I don't know about you, but I have been lost on the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge before. Now, that is not altogether a bad thing - unless you are lost and the sun is setting. If the sun starts to set on you while you are lost in the Noxubee Refuge, full- on panic can set in. After dark, especially if you are lost, the Refuge becomes a 43,000 acre animated House of Terror complete with hoots, screeches, and howling all laid out in a labyrinth of swamps, lakes, rivers, ditches, briar patches, and deep deep woods full of “Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my”! I have, over a period of forty years, explored most all of the different areas of the Refuge. I am familiar enough with it to know that if you were to get lost after dark and just decided to start walking, and if you could somehow navigate in a fairly straight direction ( which is impossible if it is dark or overcast), and if you were lucky, after a twenty mile terrifying hike you might just wind up in Macon, or Louisville — by morning. Of course, you would never actually make it that far after dark, because Sasquatch or his cousin BigFoot would certainly have had you for supper long before you reached the metropolises of Macon or Louisville. With that