Month: April 2008

On my daughters field trip on Friday, we went to the Imax theater and watched a film about the Alamo. What a great story! I was moved to a tear several times. Here are a few themes that hit me:

1) Standing up for what you believe in, no matter the cost. These guys faced certain death at the hands of a much larger army.

2) The price of freedom is blood.

3) Giving the enemy “Hell.” They knew they were going to lose the battle and die. But they were going to make the enemy pay dearly on their way out. Travis said “Our deaths will cost the enemy far more than if we had victory over them.” That’s awesome.

As I was laying in my bed the other day, I thought about our current series at church, “One Month to Live.” I have been asking myself the question, “What would I do if I had thirty days to live?” As I lay there, I asked myself that question. The answer for that day came quick: “If I had thirty days to live I would go on a field trip with one of my children.

Both of them had field trips today. It worked out that I could go on my daughter’s field trip. Here we are outside the Alamo in San Antonio. After the field trip, we popped over to the San Antonio Zoo and picked up my son who was just finishing up his field trip there. On the way home we stopped by Freddie’s Custard in New Braunfels.

What a great day!