SHARING SOME OF OUR LIFE WITH YOU

We were both raised in the Church. Our early memories go back to Sunday school and for one of us sitting on songbooks on a bench, as there were no pews. There are two Granny’s that raised us Granny Godwin and Granny Carter. Granny Godwin lead a WMU meeting at Macedonia Baptist Church, while Granny Carter attended Cedar Creek Baptist Church both in Jacksonville Florida.


Granny Godwin ran the Church and her husband was the Sunday School Super. Aunt Joyce played the piano while her husband Uncle Frank was the song leader.

Granny read her Bible and she fasted. I remember days when she would only eat saltine crackers and drink black sweetened coffee; the Lord revealed to me that she was in fact fasting. She also believed in tithing, now some say you do not have to tithe, they apparently were not reading the same Bible as Granny. When she said God said or Jesus said, you best believe it was in there.


About once a month, I would be bad enough to be put in the bathroom with my Bible and told to read a Book of HER choosing. Sometimes it was Psalms oh yes Psalms. Do you know just how BIG Psalms is? Then after I read it, I had to tell her what I read. You had best get most of it right OR you would do it again!


I can still hear her tell me, "birds of a feather flock together, you are judged by the company you keep, a man hates his child if he spares the rod and spoils the child," and yes, that was as she was applying the rod to my backside. My favorite two sayings are, you do NOT hang around with slothful people and if you want to eat, you will work.


After 66 years of studying, being in the Church and in the Bible there are things I am still learning today and I have missed for years.


Granny Carter had us in church rain or shine. We never missed Sunday school or church. By that I mean Sunday morning school and church , Sunday evening, Wednesday night Bible Study , and Thursday night Girls Auxiliary. If a revival was going on we did not miss a night of that either. Granny also had her weekly Bible study meetings, which included Granny Godwin's house.


There was no alcohol of any kind ever in the house and to say darn would get your mouth washed out with good old lava hand soap. As for tithing Granny did not work, Granddaddy though taught us the first 10% belongs to God. As for me and my house, we stand for the Lord. No meal was eaten without thanking the Lord first. God was the head.


We can never stress enough to take no Preacher, man or woman’s word on the Bible until you read it yourself. There are so-called preachers that are well –known around the world that are teaching things that are against what is in the Bible. When we see one doing this we stop listening to them.

As our Granny’s did before us, if it ain’t in the Bible, it has no part in our life’s.


God Bless

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