Foreword For His own reasons, God brings into our lives people of various sorts: they range from momentary encounters, to longer-term friends, to those (often relatives) who stay more or less constant throughout our lifetimes. God’s ways of working almost always utilize natural means, so that He is unseen to …
WES aphorisms General rules of lost things: Gravity Horizontal Spreading – things move sideways Time – the longer until you find it, the less likely You always find a thing in the last place you look Horizontal surfaces are a haven for clutter. Grace after meal before dessert: Is the …
Background, Boyhood I was born September 26, 1942 at Fort Sanders Hospital in Knoxville TN. My father had abandoned my mother and my 5 ½ year old sister to move in with his girlfriend, whom he married after he and my mother divorced, and with whom he had other children. …
Home 1, Crestway Drive Growing up in my grandparents’ home was idyllic. My chores were cleaning the cement front walk, which accumulated dirt and grass in the cracks between sections; washing the windows upstairs and down (we used Bon Ami); and scrubbing window screens (we used a hose, soap, brushes …
Church 1 – Centenary, other Looking back, it is clear that God has always been involved in my life, even when I wasn’t seeking Him. Both my maternal grandparents were saved (I remember that Grandfather had a Greek NT) and active in St Andrew’s Methodist Church (now defunct) in the …
Elementary and Early Schooling through grade 6 I attended kindergarten with my boy cousin at Brainerd Methodist Church; I remember being told to put our heads down for naps. For my six elementary years I attended Sunnyside school (it was about a mile away) usually walking past the Vine Street …