From where I stood, I could see his bible. He was "reading" from a familiar passage, yet as he "read", he was still flipping pages to get to the actual location in the bible. Psalm 23 As he recited the passage, word for word, I started doing the same, probably as many others did. The …
His Namesake
Others may have been named after him, but I believe I'm the only one that took the spelling of his name. My uncle, Elmer Eugene Carathers. My mother named me after her brother and I became Deborah Gene. I don't recall him ever calling me just Deborah, he always tagged that middle name on when …
Gamaliel’s of Today
Jesus was The Teacher, but Gamaliel was a teacher. I used to be a teacher, maybe I still am in this format. It's a heavy responsibility to answer the calling to be a spiritual teacher, wither in a formal setting like a Sunday School class room or here on the web and a blank page. …
BOM Pattern Adjustments
I'm putting this post here in case I decide to try this quilt block again. Right now it seems doubtful because it literally took me two days to do one block. It's a mystery BOM (block of the month) quilt that I'm doing this year with a group on Facebook, for A Quilting Life with …
Was There a Tuesday This Week?
I put a note in my calendar to write a blog post on Tuesday and then it snowed and the world went cold and white. I totally forgot to look at my calendar, because everything got canceled. Seems this happened before....about a year ago...because of the pandemic. One year ago I was recovering from a …
God Talk Tuesdays
Have I mentioned my mother died? I ask that sarcastically because my words and actions are full of the fact she is no longer in my daily life. It was 10 years ago on January 31st this year. There are lots of things I miss about not having her here, but I believe the greatest …
Eve’s Curse
He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you. -Genesis 3:16 Grannie Lewis lost 2 children before they were born. Grannie Carathers was told she had lost her child and then she gave birth …
Grannie C.’s stories
By the 1970s, my father was a cattleman and that meant that we had lots of friends who were also cattlemen. The Martin family became one of those groups of friends. Neil and Ruth Ann Martin had 3 children, Tina, Tracy, and Chris. Mom and Ruth Ann became best friends and so did Tina and …
Politics
I don't understand politics. I've always loved the study of history, but when the political history came onto the page, I tended to flip through that quickly. I guess at it's core, politics is about one group of people thinking their ideas are better than another group of people's ideas. They argue and try to …
Not All Who Wonder Are Lost
My brother has that saying on the back of his jeep and it makes me smile. In telling my family history, I see there were lots of "wondering" folks, stepping outside the comfort of the family farm to see what else was out there. But for the most part, all the stories tell a tale …
