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But as fer me, my feet had almost got tangled up, I done almost slipped and fell out. On account a I was jealous a highfalutin' folks when I saw them bad apples was livin' high on the hog. (Psalm 73:2-3, The Hillbilly Bible)
It's so easy to git off track in this here Christian life, y'all. I'm a feller who has always believed that attitude was ever'thang. I pride myself on keepin' a positive attitude and I let it slip...not just fer a day, fer a whole season! WHAT IN TARNATION!!! How can that happen? The answer is that it can happen to the best of us, y'all. Just like it happened to King David.
Ye know how it comes? One way it comes is from bein' covetous...now that's just a big ole word fer wantin' stuff that ain't yers. Shewwy. I been bad about that lately. And that's exactly how ole Slew Foot got me....just like he got ole King David, 3000 years ago.
The answer is to be content with what ye got. If'n yer like me, ye got ever'thang ye need, and prob'ly even some stuff ye want! That's called blessed y'all. You know what else it takes. Here comes that "H" word again...humility. It takes sayin' to yerself "Yeah, things could be better, but look at all the stuff I DO have"...in other words, count yer blessin's. And if'n ye got yer health, ye don't even have to look no further. That there is reason enough to up and daince a jig!
Stevie Rey is the author of
The Hillbilly Bible.