I am quite honored and humbled that you all ask me to do this each year ... Heavenly Father, Here we are looking forward to yet another season hunting in your creation. Lord we have so many needs ... more so now as we find ourselves consumed with the season to come. This year I pray that You will help us to be thankful for every second we get to spend preparing and hunting the trophies that so consume us. Lord thank You for the mental ability to attempt to match wits with our prey. Thank You for the physical ability we have as well to chase our quarry. Thank you for the wind that messes us up and the one that keeps our scent away from that trophy that is on it's way to our shooting lane. Thank you for the rain that helps with scent control and the rain that keeps us home with the one(s) we love instead of the tree stand. Thank you Lord for the loved ones that wait at home ... some with baited breath to hear the story of the day's hunt and the ones that just want to see us and put up with our tales. Thank you for the animals we will get frustrated with, busted by,and the ones that get bested by us. Thank you for the safe climbs up and down the tree, the crossing creeks and rivers, the car drives too and from our "playground". Lord please keep all that enter your woods and field safe. Thank you mostly for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and the Salvation He provides thru His payment of our sin by His death on the cross and His resurrection 3 days later. Thank you for loving me, Jesus, when I didn't love you at all!! It is in Jesus name we pray, Amen! Let's get it on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
