January 16, 2023 - I don’t like buttermilk; I love it. I first drank some of it in 1939. I was three years old and my parents and my 5-year-old brother Bill lived in an old unpainted shack a few miles south of Center, Texas.

Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so? Amos 3:3

December 5, 2022 - While my eight-year-old brother Bill was “being comforted” in our Outhouse one day in 1941, I devised a fun plan to shock him.

“Inasmuch as you did it to the least of these my brothers, little ones, you did it to me….” Matt. 25:35

November 21, 2022 - Deacon Jones was the most consistent and dependable deacon in my West Texas pastorate. He never missed a service, he served on the Finance and Usher’s Committees and never missed a meeting. His dress, home, automobile and lawn were immaculately neat. He was Chairman of the Deacons and was known for his prayers of thanks.

November 6, 2022 - When I was six years old, my grandmother (“Mama”) gave me a baby chick for my birthday. From the day I got her, I hand fed her…oatmeal, grain…and later grasshoppers, crickets, worms…she liked it all. And my little chicken began following me wherever I went. I named her “Susie”.