The impossible is nothing!!!!

Top of the weekend my friends! Howdy to all my real Cowboy buds who will be at the Fat Stock show in Ft Worth for the next three weeks. Yeee Haw!!

For almost a decade I used to ride a horse in the opening day parade. It rained literally almost every time I rode too. (it was cancelled this year due to possible inclement weather.) Quick shout out to my Cowboys of Color brother Cleo Hearn. For helping me with my Blazing Saddles moment! It was great fun and certainly a fond memory!

We also honor the memory of Dr Martin Luther King Jr this weekend. His official day of celebration will be Monday! Actually both are kind of related in a very unusual way. They remind us that the impossible is nothing!

The Fat Stock show’s first big star in the early 1900’s was Bill Pickett. He is the father of “Bulldogging”. By the way, Mr Pickett was a Black Cowboy! His "act" would become the birth on what is commonly known as steer wrestling. In the early 1900’s that was thought to be impossible!

He was a rodeo culture overcomer! Actually, in 1971, Pickett was inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame. Also his image was featured on a postage stamp in 1994. Yes Virginia there were Cowboys who weren’t football players!

So what does it really mean to be an overcomer? The answer is the impossible is nothing!

When I researched the word “impossible. According to the Oxford definition says, "Something that cannot be done!" ?The grammatical use the word is even more profound. Since "impossible" is an adjective which modifies a noun. A person, place or thing who knows what it is like to not have hope.

Now that’s generally the Holy Grail of instant failure and the hidden spirit of the unambitious. When you lean on your own understanding.

However Dr. King harnessed something more extraordinary “faith”! It’s bigger than your circumstances. When you sincerely believe “Nothing is impossible with GOD”! ?

People like Bill Pickett or Dr Martin Luther King Jr. walked by faith and not by sight. The first Cowboy who grabbed a bull by the horns. Is in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. And a Preacher had a dream to change the world. Which grabbed the world by its heart!

Sure it involved boycotting a unfair busing system. Also sit-ins, hunger strikes, jail time for some and hundreds of marches, just to name a few.

This belief was a worthy exemplar of the true meanings of life. Yet as the world watched, the Nobel committee thought it was worthy of the Peace prize. Another country “Japan” changed their treatment of the untouchable people group called Burakumin. Who credits Dr King for the improvement of their living conditions.

England added Dr King to their Hall of Statesman. More importantly, President Ronald Regan in 1983 signed into law the holiday honoring the same man he used to criticize. President George H.W. Bush seconded that honor by making it a national federal day off in 1989 . The impossible is nothing!

So what impossible thing are you facing? I’ll close with a verse of encouragement from Proverbs 21:1.

“The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure”. The impossible is nothing! Donut forget it.