Success is often something very different than what is first admired. We each have such a limited perspective of what the experience of success is. We see things, we think “I’d love to do that” and then we’re off to the races. When I was a schoolteacher, children had a way of often defining something…
The Common Faith
My Grandfather Geddie, a lay minister for the Methodist church, traveled to rural areas near my childhood home in Arkansas some weekends and gave the sermon. A six foot twoish man, Grandfather Geddie experienced his life, and not from a silver spoon. He lost his father early on, took on a man’s work by age…
Gatherings for the Fourth
As a child I grew up with both sides of my families gathering often. My grandparents lived within twenty miles of one another, but the key was the two grandfathers were also friends. My paternal grandfather, Pappy, was widowed before I was born, and I suppose that had a good bit to do with the…