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Jewels From The Word
February 13, 2017
My first memory of money is of giving at church. I remember when I was a little girl, after Sunday School, we had the Penny March. All the little kids marched single file, pushing, shoving, around the altar and dropped their few pennies into the collection pla...
Jewels From The Word
February 6, 2017
The PBS TV station has been showing movies of kings and queens of England. I have watched 3 shows of “Victoria” who was the queen of England, and a show called “Secret of Six Wives” the story of King Henry the 8th who had six wives. I lo...
Jewels From The Word
January 30, 2017
My first set of china in 1969 was from a gas station, 50 cents for each place setting with a tank of gas. My first set of eating utensils could hardly be labeled "silverware." It was stainless steel, no design, but functional. I was never in that class of soci...
Jewels From The Word
January 20, 2017
Have you ever been driving along through town and had a thought, "I should turn here"? Perhaps you did turn and found out later that there had been a wreck on the main road and you would have been tied up for hours. That happened a while back on I-44 turnpike b...
Jewels From The Word
January 16, 2017
Mother let me walk by myself to the library one summer when I was about 9 to get a library card and check out my first book. The librarian Mrs. Moss suggested a book for me. Three days later I was back to get another book. Then a few days after that, I was back...
Jewels From The Word
January 9, 2017
Have you ever watched concrete being laid? They build a wooden frame around the area they are going to pour into, building it up to the depth they want and the shape they intend for it to become. Then they pour the cement and smooth off the top, working the bub...
Jewels From The Word
January 2, 2017
Luke 15 tells the story of a prodigal son who squandered all his inheritance and ended up slopping hogs in a foreign country, with nothing to eat but corn husks. But the Bible says he came to himself. He came to his senses and suddenly realized what was going o...
Jewels From The Word
December 26, 2016
If you want to get people started laughing or crying, just start talking about Christmas memories. Everyone has a story.I remember bringing the Christmas tree home from school the last day of school. We didn't have much money so the school gave us the tree.I re...
Jewels From The Word
December 19, 2016
Mary woke up early the morning after Jesus was born with the glow of His birth lingering around her. The memory of the shepherds’ stories of angels singing in the night sky brought back memories of the angel who stood before her and told her she wou...
Jewels From The Word
December 12, 2016
Our family tradition revolved around the music of the Christmas. We sang it at church, at school in the special Christmas program, and all around the house. I took piano lessons so I learned to play all the Christmas carols. I was in chorus in school so I lear...
Jewels From The Word
December 5, 2016
In the years when we were teenagers, Mama bought a silver aluminum Christmas tree, and we decorated it with all our old decorations she had accumulated over those early years. Our favorite lights were the old-fashioned bubble lights that looked like oil pumpin...
Jewels From The Word
November 28, 2016
The last time Mama took a picture was using my iPhone camera to take a picture of me after I had taken a picture of her. Mom’s uncle gave her a box camera when she was 13 years old and she still had all of those pictures when she died. When she was about...
