Good Job! Little Buddy!

You never know exactly when prayers will be answered or how God will respond, but His answers never cease to amaze me. My little brother Frank, four years my junior, had what some would call a challenging childhood. At one point when we were kids, I think it was right after Frank gave Mom's Weeping Willow Cherry tree a "Haircut", I became very concerned that Frank would be this way the rest of his life. And so I went to God in prayer and with all the earnestness that my tweleve years had procurred, I begged God to not let my little brother end up like Gilligan.

Through the years he continued to have his challenging moments - Charged with drag racing mom's 1980 Ford Escort, and getting caught at Carson Newman by Dr. Turner using Rev. Tom Barton as a source on a paper are but two examples of the many. Rev. Barton is actually Mr. Barton and a Ford dealer not a minister. This weekend he picked up his second Emmy, and every Thanksgiving he brings home his W-2 to mock his two older brothers. But the point is, my prayer was answered and my brother is not Gilligan, but more a combination of Groucho Marx, Ebward R Murrow, Jerry Springer, Dane Cook, and Karl the Caddy Shack greens keeper. Good job, little buddy!