“Game Day.” These words evoke such emotion. For anyone who has ever competed it is the day we live for. Game day is unlike any other. It is fraught with interference, intensity, expectations and distractions on a grand scale. And when it is over the scoreboard is lit up for the whole world to see. It is both the canvas of destiny making moments as well as forgettable crash and burn scenes.

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The Sabinal River dried up. Never before has this happened in Utopia. While there were a few pockets of water along the desperate valley floor, the seven-year drought had taken its toll on the springs. You see, it’s the springs that are the source for this life giving wonder. The occasional rain provides nothing more than run-off water. What is needed to recharge the springs is a sustained rain. 

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Let me start right up front today and tell you that I am trying to sell you a putter. Haha! I can hear the deletes from here. But for you that stayed, you know my heart… there must be more.

God is creative and will go to any links to draw the lost to Him. He does it out of love. This may surprise you but I know many who were introduced to Him because of a putter… the Face-On putter from the book and movie.

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I noticed it one day as I was walking through our ranch near Utopia. Probably passed it a thousand times without stopping. But on this day it caught my heart by surprise. An old plow and seed bin that had been pulled out of the field about 70 years ago to never do again what it was made to do. It had sat motionless for all those years. And then it happened. I approached it with curiosity and lifted the lid to the seed bin. The rusty hinges groaned with age.

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