Music Shopping In Prescott Valley AZ

There is a store that we have driven past multiple times in Prescott Valley AZ. The back of the store is visible on Highway 69. I have mentioned a couple of times that I wanted to stop and go in sometime but I never had. Last weekend while we were in the Prescott area we made the stop.

We stopped at Music, Movies & More right after church on Sunday but we were quick to learn that they are closed on Sundays. Our visit was pushed forward to Monday.

When we walked in we were amazed at the vast selection of music that is available. All three of us quickly found product that we were interested in.
And to think we barely scratched the surface of the amount of stock that was available. We were limited on time and $$$ on this visit but we will return with more $$ and a lot more time to roam through the stock.

I think we have found a new haunt in Prescott Valley.

Forty Years Ago

Forty years ago it was 1971. Do you remember where you were? I was a fifteen year old kid in the Dallas area. But January 3, 1971 is the most important day in my life. Even all these years later.

Today is the anniversary of the day when I received Jesus as my savior. It was a cold Sunday night. My family had started going to a small Baptist church not far from our house. There were a group of guys that were a few years older than me that I really looked up to, Bill, Tony, Keith and Steve. (Amazing that all these years later I remember their names.) Bill had long brown hair and had this joy about him that was contagious. I did not realize it at first, but Bill was a Jesus Freak.

One night (Jan. 3) Tony was going to preach the evening service. I never went on Sunday evening but Bill and Tony looked at me that morning and told me that I really needed to come to church that night. I said that I would try. They looked at me and said that I did not need to try but I needed to be there.

So Sunday evening came along and there I was. I ended up on the back row by myself. I don't remember what Tony said, but I remember realizing that I needed Jesus. I did not walk the aisle, or respond to an invitation. Instead I prayed and told God that if He was real, to change my life. And at that point my life began to change.

No one told be to read the Word, I just had a desire to do so. And as I read the Bible began to make sense! My language changed over night. My attitude began to change.

When I went back to school the next day (Christmas break had just ended), many of my friends had began to smoke pot and mess with other drugs at Christmas time. When I told them that I had an encounter with God they said that in a few weeks I would get over it.

Well, forty years later and I still have not gotten over it and I do not plan to ever. I was not sure what had happened to me when I prayed and asked Jesus to change my life. I do now. I became a "new creature in Christ." It is what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Everyone that is a Christian has two birthdays, their physical and their spiritual. Today is mine.

The Start Of A New Year

Happy New Year! A new year has begun and hopefully I will do better making blog posts. At least I am going to try.

2010 ended with snow. Thursday morning at work when I went out to pre-trip my bus for the day there was a lot of snow to trudge through. In fact there was so much snow we had to delay the start of bus service by 2-3 hours.

The bus in the picture above was the bus that I drove that day. The wheel chock is buried in the snow in front of the front tire. It was a "challenge" to go around the entire bus to check it. I did not know that I needed my own snow shovel at work that day!

After I got off work I headed to my car and this is what I found. Now remember, I had to dust the snow off earlier that morning when I left to work. My car is the front one with those beautiful Texas plates.

Our temperatures have dipped down to -12 and we have not seen above freezing temps in a while. Hopefully that will change in the very near future.