You don’t have to be an Artist to enjoy or even feel the effects that art and the role it plays in our everyday lives and memories, serves on us. I’m not a stamp collector but when I went to the Post Office the other day and saw some stamps there called the: "Cowboys Of The Silver Screen" it immediately sent me back to my childhood days of living with my grandparents.

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They weren’t stamp collectors either but they did have some books and calendars throughout the house (and stored in the attic) as well as the ol’ Black & White TV that took several minutes to warm up when you turned it on.

But it was the colored prints from either advertising and in some cases toy packaging that set the time line in my memory that forever linked me to that certain and special time in my life. As I looked at these stamps I saw and could even remember the smell of those strange but special days of living with my grandparents. I distinctly remember at least three of these cowboys and who among us today could ever forget hearing about Roy Rogers?

My grandmother was always preaching about the "Hard Times" and would seldom allow anyone to hear or see her enjoy anything so trivial as a Movie Star or Stars but when I would ask her about Roy Rogers she would always remind me that he was married to "Dale Evans". She also liked Gene Autry "The Singing Cowboy" and while my grandfather watched even less TV than my grandmother did, he also liked Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.

This past weekend I was blessed to be able to attend and be ministered to, greatly by some very anointed men of God. It was a Men’s Conference called Brother’s Keeper and was held at the Bishop Connare Center in Greensburg, PA by Pastor, Ray Lankford of Oasis Ministries and his Church of McKeepsort, PA.

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I’ve been to many of men’s conference’s in the past (though not of late) but can still honestly say that like the freshness of the Word Of God, you will always get something more for your life than you had or experienced before, when God shows up!

The focus of this weekend retreat was for the men of God to come clean, and deal with anything and everything that may be hindering our walk with the Lord. As a witness to Jesus the Christ and as the “Men-Of-God” He has called us to be in front of a lost and dying world.