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The Taylor County News, June 17, 2021, Page 2.
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Don’t blink! Before you know it, your babies will be all grown
up! I blinked! My baby, Hayli, turned 21 years old Saturday,
and 1 just can’t figure out where those 21 years went! It literally
seems like yesterday that 1 was holding that beautiful, perfect
baby in my arms. She’s still beautiful and perfect, in my eyes,
but she doesn’t want to be in my arms nearly as much!
Hayli inherited some family traits, for example, she looks like
her daddy and her Ma, and, at times, she does things that re
mind me of my mama and my Mam, and her personality is a
whole lot like my daddy, hut, all in all, Hayli is her own unique
person.
Hayli is the sweetest person you could ever hope to meet-un-
less you tick her off—then, you better back up! She didn’t inherit
this from me, but Hayli is nobody’s door mat, and she will defi
nitely stand her ground,
Haybug is a senior at the University of West Georgia! She is
working to obtain a teaching degree, and she is doing a great job!
It seems that teaching comes naturally to her. She loves her
student teaching work, and she truly cares about her students.
She has big plans for her own classroom in the future, (She won’t
like this, hut Hayli has done extraordinarily well in college. She
makes the President’s List every semester, but apparently, she
didn't sign the release form during freshmen orientation that
allows the col lege to send her accomplishments to her local news
paper. As her mama, I get the notices, but as her newspaper
editor, 1 do not. It’s tempting to create my own newspaper no
tice, but I shy away when I realize that there are other local
students at UWG, who probably a Iso received honors. I can’t run
one without running them all. So, Hayli never makes the “Col
lege Chatter” column, and that suits her just fine!)
Hayli has a good bit of the caretaking trait in her. I know this,
because she has always taken care of me. We have an interest
ing dynamic at our house. Hayli’s sister, Brette, stirs me up (on
purpose) and keeps me on my toes, but Hayli comes behind her
and settles me down, I believe they both have a little bit of “an
gel” in them, and the dynamic works for us!
1 really don't know why God loves me so much that He sent
Hayli to me to love, but I’m sure thankful that He did! He made
an amazing person, and 1 had nothing to do with it. Thank you,
God, and Happy 21st Birthday, Hay! My love for you is way
deeper than you could ever imagine, and I am so proud of you
and the awesome person you are!
To rh t Light
ob Wade
Friends
One day last week, this pundit needed something from
Barrow Automotive and Hardware (guns too). In 1968, this
fellow learned that if Bo ain’t got it, you don’t need it!
Mindy Watson and Keith Carpenter worked the counter,
Keith was talking on the telephone, so Mindy helped me
close the deal. Between sentences, Keith acknowledged my
presence. That is what friends do.
Mindy calculated the purchase price and money exchanged
hands. She then asked the status of wife Brynda, noting
she read Brynda’s Facebook post about the ahsence of her
newest artificial knee due to an infection.
We exchanged details about the cause, prognosis, and plan.
During that discussion, another customer silently ap
proached to my left at the counter. That prompted a quick
conclusion to our conversation, at which time the customer
spoke and instantly my brain processed the voice as that of
long-time friend John Neely, Jr.
What a surprise.
We rarely see one another these days since he moved from
the sandhills of Taylor County to where he can more often
enjoy the hurricanes that skirt Georgia’s ocean shoreline.
We talked about Brynda’s situation and then reminisced
about old times while Mindy sought the hardware John
needed.
During our visit, a flood of positive emotions proved the
existence of a true friendship. We enjoy one another’s com
pany. We also did business together when he was a banker.
John was quick with financing and long-suffering earning
interest on his investments.
We share other things in common, politics, history, com
munity, and flying.
We both owned “taildragger" airplanes.
He and Lewis Watson once transported me in Lewis’s air
plane to Fort Smith, Arkansas to take delivery of a vintage
85-horsepower 1946 Cessna 140, one of the best two-seat
airplanes on the planet.
John bought a 100-horsepower vintage Luscombe.
On one occasion, he needed to fly to the western fringe of
Alabama, so this flier took the opportunity to tag along if
the Cessna could keep up with him.
At about Mauk, the Cessna was off John’s three o’clock
(right wing) and keeping pace with the more powerful air
plane. The Cessna’s throttle was “firewalled” (wide open),
and the two planes were in formation.
Near the middle of the great state of Alabama, the Cessna
had fallen back parallel to the horizontal stabilizer (nine
o’clock) rather than off the wingtip.
A little while later, John transmitted over the radio ar
rival at the destination, backed off the power, slowed,
hanked left, banked again, lined up with the runway, with
Scripture Of
The Week
me gliding one hundred yards comfortably at his six o’clock
position.
The Luscombe touched down astride the centerline at the
top of the numbers, and seconds later, the Cessna did too.
We taxied in line to the ramp, pulled up to the fixed base
operator’s hangar, shut down our engines, and deplaned.
The purpose of the trip was for John to deliver a rubber
bladder for repair from a wing fuel tank of his twin engine
Bonanza airplane. While he worked the twenty or so pound
object out of his airplane, we discussed the power settings,
and, surprisingly, he too was “firewalled” the whole way.
That was surprising considering he had fifteen more horse
power pulling him through the sky.
With the delivery of the fuel bladder complete, we returned
to our airplanes and took-off toward Six Alpha One (But
ler). We climbed to about three thousand five hundred feet
mean sea level and cruised East.
The weight of that fuel bladder must have been the decid
ing factor retarding the speed performance of the Luscombe.
The Cessna could not match its airspeed on the return leg,
and John steadily opened the distance between us. When
he signaled over the radio that he was letting down for
landing at home, the Cessna was just passing over Mauk,
a good three minutes behind him.
That was a great memory of an event involving two good
friends.
Isn’t that what friendship is all about? People spending
time together prosecuting common interests and making
good memories?
Standing there at the counter of Barrow Auto talking to
friends Mindy, Keith, and John proved again this
word smith’s conviction that friendship adds quality to the
“good life.’’ It enhances our existence the way flavorful aro
mas stimulate our bodies, minds, and souls.
Friends help us realize we have a purpose for being on
Planet Earth.
With friends, we can never be lonely: We can always re
member time well spent with friends.
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If ye then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children: how much
more shall your heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Luke 11:13, KJV
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ant)
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To Wed July 17th
Mr. and Mrs. Ledrew Malcolm
Giles, Sr, of Fort Valley, GAand
Mr. Monty Craig Benenhaley of
Destin, FL, announce the en
gagement of' their daughter,
Allie Lanette Benenhaley, to
Kaleb Sidney Albritton, son of
Mr, and Mrs. Sidney Kyle
Albritton of' Butler, GA.
The bride to be is the mater
nal granddaughter of Merium
Lawhorn Sims of Byron, GA
and the late Ralph Randolph
Lawhorn, paternal grand
daughter of Martha Ballard
Benenhaley of Charlotte, NC
and the late Hamilton
Benenhaley, Jr.
The prospective groom is the
maternal grandson of Barbara
Jean Davis of Butler, GA and
the late Edward Alex Davis,
paternal grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Albritton of But
ler, GA.
The bride is a magnet cum
fetude graduate of Columbus
State University, where she
received her Bachelor of Sci
ence degree in early education.
She was an elementary educa
tor with Muscogee County
School District for school year
2020-2021 and will be an el
ementary educator with Lee
County School System for the
upcoming school year.
The prospective groom is a
cum taude graduate of Georgia
Southwestern State University,
where he received his Bachelor
of Business Administration de
gree in Accounting. He is a
Staff Auditor 2 with Georgia
Department of Audits and Ac
counts in Leesburg, GA.
They plan to marry on July 17
at Chota Falls Estate.
Fallacies
In Pascal’s
Wager
By Billy Powell
Pascal’s Wager was named after 17th-century French phi
losopher Blaise Pascal. The gist of his Wager is that “one
cannot come to the knowledge of God’s existence through
reason alone, so the wise thing to do is to live your life as if
God does exist because such a life has everything to gain
and nothing to lose. If we live as though God exists, and
He does indeed exist, we have gained heaven. If He doesn’t
exist, we have lost nothing. If, on the other hand, we live
as though God does not exist and He really does exist, we
have gained hell and punishment and have lost heaven
and bliss.”
Pascal continues, “If one weighs the options, clearly the
rational choice to live as if God exists is the better of the
possible choices. Pascal even suggested that some may not,
at the time, have the ability to believe in God. In such a
case, one should live as if he had faith anyway. Perhaps
living as if one had faith may lead one to actually come to
faith.”
Pascal’s Wager cannot be squared with scripture, for Ro
mans 1:19-20 declares that “the knowledge of God is evi
dent to all so that we are without excuse.” Every person
who observes the world around her/him will realize that
the laws set in motion at the beginning of time did not
happen by chance, but were established by a Supreme
Creator. Why does an apple fall from its tree? Who “hangeth
the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7) and tilted its axis at
23.4 degrees so we don’t burn up or freeze? What prompts
the tides that cause the ocean’s waters to advance and re
cede? What causes the seasons of the year? Why does the
unseen electron orbit around its nucleus at astonishing
speeds? Why is grass colored green and the sky tinted blue?
Why do all heavenly bodies move in precise orbits and not
collide? The Psalmist wrote: “The heavens declare the glory
of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.”
Pascal’s Wager overlooked the scriptural imperative that
one must be bom again. Jesus told Nicodemus that “un
less one is bom again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus asked, “Can one enter a second time in his
mother’s womb and be reborn?” Jesus used the example of
the wind. We cannot see it, we don’t know how it origi
nates or understand its power, but its manifestation is
clearly seen. Neither do we understand television, but we
watch it. We don’t understand how our automobile works
under its hood, but we drive automobiles. So it is with the
Holy Spirit. We can see the manifestations of changed lives,
yet we don’t understand it.
We don’t comprehend all there is to know about John 3:
16, but we accept it on faith as the pathway to everlasting
fife. It is no big thing to believe in God, for the scripture
says that even “the demons believe there is a God.”
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