http://donnieslade.com Life Lessons from the road and the golf course. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:32:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a crazy summer, to say the least.  I have been in Texas for the most part at great churches all over that great state.  As a matter of fact, I am in Texas as I write.  I was at the Lonestar Cowboy Church in Montgomery, Tx earlier ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/09/friends-on-the-road/ I like to think that I am in pretty good shape and in pretty good health.  I have not been to the doctor in about 20 years much less the emergency room.  But, in April, while we were in the mountains for Spring Break, I got strep throat and had ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/06/er/ The second night of the 2-night event in Cape Girardeau, MO was fantastic.  In the two nights we had over 65 decisions.  I had a great time with Rick Harris and his family.  And all of his volunteers were great.  Rick took me to lunch yesterday and today, Logan's and ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/05/cape-girardeau-mo-part-2/ I had a great event tonight in MO.  We had over 450 people there and we had a bunch of decisions for Christ.  I have another event tomorrow night here and I am looking forward to seeing what God is going to do.  I leave here on Saturday morning and ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/05/cape-girardeau-mo/ I haven't been on the road that much over the past month and I haven't gotten to play golf, so writings from the road and the golf course just haven't been coming.  I have had things going on in my life but I just haven't taken the time to stop ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/05/great-2-weeks/ It is funny how things can run full circle.  This week, it seems my whole life just came full circle.  When we, at Life Church use the XL building for the first time, I will be returning to a building that I spent the better part of a decade in ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/04/xl/ Last night I drove in from Houston and went straight to my parents house for a night with the whole family.  My brother and his wife were in town from south Georgia and my sister, her husband and their kids were there.  It was the first time in a long ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/04/great-night-last-night/ First of all, I can't believe it has been this long since I last blogged.  I hope to do better.  But I was thinking the other day about getting the breath knocked out of you.  I mean in the proverbial sense.  Have you ever been just traveling through life and ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/03/out-of-breath/ Certain things in life bring us back to the reality of things and one of those things in my life is what my daughter is going through.  A week or so ago we found out that Taylor has a stress fracture in her L5 vertebrae caused by all of the ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/03/eye-openers/ I absolutely love March Madness.  The time of year when anything can happen and everyone is talking about it.  Watching college kids give their all for their team, and at the end, one team is extremely happy and the other team is devastated.  And for what, a basketball game, that ... http://donnieslade.com/2009/03/march-madness-scared-christians/