“You’re Lucky”
Every once in a while someone tells me I am lucky. I gave up on luck years and years ago. I believe instead in the God Who blesses. Everything good that happens to me is one of His blessings. Everything…
Category Generation to Generation
I Try
Mary Evelyn teaches a Bible class for children on Wednesday nights. My friend–I’ll call her Maggie–and I are two of the half-dozen or so adult helpers in the class. Mary Evelyn needs every one of us for this eclectic group…
One Life
My husband Ray is great about keeping me informed about what is happening in the world. He reads the daily newspaper from a nearby small city and a business journal from our region. When he sees an article that he…
Hank, Patsy, Mother, and Daddy
Mother, Ray, and I were sitting at lunch the other day. Out of the blue, she said, “I think it was 1952 when Hank Williams died” (Mother was off by one year; it was 1953). Ray and I certainly knew…
Granddaddy Wes II
Ray and I were discussing our plans for the fall the other day. One thing he would like to do is to visit his hometown. Ray’s daddy was an only child and Ray’s only brother has also moved away. The…
Granddaddy Wes I
Ray’s parents, Wes and Joan, had been married for thirty years when she died in 1975. Three years later Wes married a former neighbor whose husband had died. Wes and Christine were married for twenty years. Near the end of…