“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.” Psalms 55:6 “I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” Psalms 23:6
May 1, 2023 - In 1951 I hitch-hiked to Springfield, Missouri (with three dollars’ in my pocket) and enrolled in the newly-established Baptist Bible College. The school was kind enough to help a bunch of “pore” preachers get a start. Springfield had more colleges than any other city of its size in the U.S.
April 24, 2023 - We grandchildren called her “Mama.” Many called her “Sister Richards.” For fifty years she preached in tent revivals, brush arbors, and did pastoral work.
April 3, 2023 - In 1946 Daddy moved our family to a rent house on Arcadia Road in Center, Texas. Behind the house was an old chicken house where our “Banty” chickens roosted every night. My brother John and I often crawled on top of it to swing on one of the two high line wires that ran to the house.
March 27, 2023 - Actually. the little pond belonged to our landlord, Mr. Jim Boothe. In 1947, Daddy moved our growing family to the old Jim Boothe rent house across the railroad tracks in East Center, Texas. The house‘s porch had collapsed and had rotted, but we kids loved living there. We all loved to fish and we were within walking distance of several creeks and stock ponds. Weaver’s Pond, The Brick Yard Pond and Carrol’s Pond were only a short walk away.