There may be a change in the weather coming. Forecasters are calling for cooler weather over this Labor Day weekend here. Now it really will not be cooler by comparison to September temperatures but any change will be welcome. Normally our weather really does not begin to be different until October and sometimes into November. Let's hope we at least get some rain over the next day or so. We were blessed with some July rains but those benefits ran out awhile back. Leaves are falling off my trees in record fashion. It looks like that is due to the dryness of the ground more than it trying to become fall. Any combination of rain with a little cool will be welcome at this time of the year.

Football season is in full swing in Texas. Our high school played their first game last Friday night. So far we are undefeated. We will see what happens in our next game. All of my sporting magazines are in with their predictions for the college and professional season. Most are in agreement with their picks on who the final winners will be. There are a few wild swings in actually trying to guess a given team's record. Thank goodness that I am not a gambler. No one ever really knows what may or may not take place during a season. You always will find a few surprise teams that perform better than expected. Last year both the University of Alabama and the New Orleans Saints ended up on top. Neither one was a preseason choice of the so called experts. Odds are good that the same thing can happen again this year.

Let me throw out some predictions just for the fun of it. Do not imagine that this is an area of specialization for me. I just enjoy the games for what they are. In college football my pick is for Alabama to repeat. They do not have an easy road but this won't keep them down. Other teams like Ohio State or Texas may surprise but neither seems able to match the sheer level of talent with the Crimson Tide. Professional football is much harder to predict. You have some teams that have more talent but injuries can derail a season very quickly. The AFC favorites include New York, Baltimore, Indianapolis and San Diego. Think I am going to predict Baltimore to win that conference. The NFC favorites are Dallas, New Orleans, Minnesota and San Francisco. My heart and my head would really like to see New Orleans repeat to go to the Super Bowl. At this point we might as well go ahead and predict the Saints to win their second championship. Realize that none of the above has any real scientific basis. You might do as well drawing names out of a hat.

Sports predictions really are overrated. I save the magazines with the projections to see how well the experts do. Most of the time they don't come close to how the season goes. Anyone that says they can predict the future probably has a vested interest in what they say. This is even true with spiritual things. Prophecy books and the sort keep coming out with new updates depending on what actually happens. My opinion is that there is something in human nature that imagines knowing the future plays some role in controlling it. Maybe part of it is our tendency to seek escape from current crises. If we can focus on other people or times then we do not have to think on where we are. We can easily lose sight of the true focus of time past, present and future. God does indeed have a divine plan. He will be working that plan through Jesus. Everything else is incidental compared to this simple truth. You will not have to ever worry or wonder about the times once you set them in God's hands. After all, He already has the times under control. It's us who decide how much we will allow that to guide us.

Bro. Trey