Northwoods Table Talk

I don't know if you remember Jerry Reed, he was Snowman in the Smokey and the Bandit movies. He also wrote a few songs. Given the oil issues we've been having, I thought of one of his songs a while back, and was singing it to my boys the other day. Do you remember the oil crisis in the 70s, brought about by Jimmy Carter? This song was written and sung to satirically bemoan that fact. I don't know if many of you remember it, but it is funny stuff. Here are the lyrics below. And if you want to listen, here that is...  Crude Oil Blues CRUDE OIL BLUES Writer Jerry Reed Well now listen people let me tell you some news I'll sing a song called the crude oil bluesWe're low on heat'n oil we're low on gas And I'm so cold I'm 'bout to freeze my....self We got the crude oil blues Cause the winter time sure gets cold to the bottom of my shoes Well my hands are shakin' and my knees are weakBut it ain't because of love it's from the la

I was out fishing the other day and enjoying a fine cigar. While there, I chanced to run into a layman from another LCMS congregation. There is a lot of room on a pier when you're fishing, but you're still close enough to others to carry on a conversation. Soon we'd struck up a conversation were talking about the normal pier-fishing things; catching any? seen any? think they'll turn on today? what you using to entice them? We even got around to introducing ourselves to each other. And, as conversations tend to go, inevitably the question was asked, "What do you do?" To which I responded, "I am a pastor, a Lutheran pastor." It was then that we exchanged some more information, he also being Lutheran - and a Missouri Synod Lutheran at that. Of course this piqued our interest and heightened our connection. Next we discussed where we were living and to what parishes were we connected. Upon learning where this man was from, and what congregation he