Month: February 2025

Miss Mary Beth Torments My Son

My son John was never an exemplary Sunday School student. Like me, he’d use any excuse to avoid it. He plunked down in the car, giving his Sunday School Book a dramatic sling one Sunday when he was seven or eight years old.

“I’m not going back to Sunday School any more!” he spouted emphatically. “Miss Mary Beth molested me in front of the whole class!”

I knew he had to be slaughtering the language. “I’m sure Miss Mary Beth didn’t molest you in front of the class. Exactly what did she do?”

“She made me read a Bible verse that had a lot of hard words.” he sputtered, disgusted.

“Well, I know that was aggravating but that’s not molesting.” Then I explained.

At least he learned something one Sunday.

Advice

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

I would advise any teenager to persevere and not get distracted by what’s going on around them. Set some goals and work hard in school.

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What’s Important!

Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

Wouldn’t it be a gift to be born knowing the opinion of one’s peers mattered little? So much of the angst of learning your way would be relieved. Often, a person wastes that time unlearning the basic rules learned as a child. Kindness, empathy, and decency may be discarded in pursuit of fun, friendship, and ambition. It’s good to mature and be authentic.

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Boring

What bores you?

I am rarely bored. At home, I have my reading, writing l, crochet, sewing, gardening, and dogs to occupy me. If I have to wait for an appointment, I thoroughly enjoy people watching. I am easily occupied.

My mother taught me a very valuable lesson about boring when I complained of boredom as a kid. She loaded me with enough chores I never complained of being bored again. Valuable lesson!

OJ and Sprite

What is your favorite drink?

First thing in the morning I fill my cup with lots of ice and top it off with OJ and Sprite. I sip along on that all day, I usually add to it mid afternoon. That keeps me hydrated.

Starry Night Part 2 The Snake Handling Church and the Rapture, a Story my Grandpa Told

When me an’ my brother Jim was boys, we heard they was gonna be having a camp-meeting at one of them snake-handlin’ churches up in the hills. Now we didn’ want nothin’ to do with snakes, but we thought it might be interestin’ to stir them church folks up a little. We slipped out with the Rascoe boys an’ caught us up some cats an’ a dog or two an’ had’em in tow sacks. We slipped up on the back side of the church an’ climbed up, pullin’ them bags behind us. With all that singin’ and testafyin’, and speakin’ in tongues, them church folks couldna’ heard the devil comin’ up the river in a sawmill, so we didn’ have a bit o’trouble once they got started. Them folks was naturally doin’ some carryin’ on!

Well, we give’em time enough to get to really git serious about their religion before we turned them dogs and cats loose on ‘em. Them cats tore outa’ them sacks, like their tails was on fire, screechin’ and spittin’, with them dogs right behind ‘em. Some of ‘em ended up bustin’ right up in the middle of them snake-handlers. I mean to tell you, they threw them snakes down an’ they all run outside screamin’ an’ carryin’ on about the rapture. You wouldn’a thought anybody that messed with snakes would’a got so stirred up about a few dogs and cats!

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Favorite People

Who are your favorite people to be around?

I am very fortunate to be retired so I am only around Bud most days. If I go out or have guests, it is people I care about.