My neighbors Parker and Patty are always telling me how proud they are to be a part of Port O’Connor, Texas. They say it is a great community and so friendly. Parker recently took his preacher fishing. Early in the day didn’t go too well, but later they got into some beautiful legally sized speckled trout. Pastor Pat was so happy when he hooked in to a really nice trout. He quickly unhooked it and plopped it in the handy aluminum measuring trough Parker had used to measure other fish, hoping to have the biggest. Well, it was hot that afternoon. Really Hot! That trout went to flopping and flipping trying to escape that hot metal. Pat yelled, and Parker came to help. The fish was really jumping and pretty soon Parker and Pat were chasing a wild fish across the space above the deck rail. Sad to say, they were not fast enough. The 23-incher flopped one last big flop right over the low fishing rail and into the cool green water. Pastor Pat groaned out loud and Parker bit back an off-color remark, but the beautiful fish was gone. Pastor Pat is nothing if not a teacher so, even when he was out fishing the pastor turned it into a lesson about life. He said if he hadn’t been measuring his catch against everyone else’s on the boat, hoping to be the best, he’d be having speckled trout for dinner. Sometimes we get so busy comparing ourselves and what we’ve got or not got to everyone else that we miss what we have right there on the hook.” Pastor Pat caught a few more fish that afternoon, and when he was asked if he wanted to measure them or get a picture he replied, “No Thanks. Just catchin’ makes me happy enough.” So, today, don’t miss out on what is good by searching around for what someone else might have that is better. Catch the joy of the moment and let it be enough!