Blue Bell is Back

Texans love things Texan: wide open spaces, longhorn cattle, colorful history, barbecue (it ain't pig, Georgia), the slow look at nature, and Blue Bell. Our ice cream is back. It left back in April after some horrible bacterial spread throughout the factories.  That episode devastated families sickened or killed by the affected cream and devastated the company having to close the little creamery in Brenham. Another Texas icon from the Bass family bailed them out with a loan. They cleaned up their joints and the ice cream began hitting the stores in staggered stockings across the great state.

We got our delivery in Whitney on November 2. Stores were out of homemade vanilla by two in the afternoon. I bought buttered pecan. It's not my favorite but it is Blue Bell so I made the investment. There seems to be some balance back in the universe. I even feel like writing a little again. I'm not sure if there is a connection between the lack of Blue Bell and the lack of blogs over the past six months. I didn't eat that much of the stuff before they had to close down. I wanted to but I didn't. So I'm not sure if the lack of even the possibility messed up my desire to write or not. It is a curious timing however.

Much has happened in our world since the self-imposed sabbatical of writing began. Newsmen, politicians, celebrities, preachers, and bloggers filled the media, electronic and paper, with all the news, opinions, spins, regrets, and proposals to keep us going. They didn't seem to miss the ole WizardofCos. Truth is, they won't notice that I am writing again either.

So why now, other than Blue Bell is back, have I put keystrokes to computer screen. Is it for God? for me? for the chapel I serve? Yes, for all but more no. After not writing anything but sermons and lessons for six months, I guess I do it because I want to. God doesn't need it, he might not even like some of it but I hope he gets a kick out of some of the offerings. I don't need it like I think I may have needed it at one time. The chapel and the larger kingdom does fine without it. So why do it? I just kinda like doing it. Maybe it helps someone sometime but there is really no way to tell and I can surely find folks better help than a blog if they asked.

So I stuck a spoon in a bowl of Blue Bell and struck a few keys on the computer. We will see in time if the endeavor is wasted or waisted. I read in a devotional this morning a quote from Arlo Guthrie, "you can't have light without a dark to stick it into."  I have a bowl, a spoon and now access to Blue Bell to stick it into. I have a Light and darkness aplenty to stick it into. Lord willing, I'll try to stick it to the darkness with words.  

Blue Bell is back, so am I.
Cos