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The Taylor County News, May 18, 2023, Page 2.
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I’ve been pondering, again. The more I do that, the more amazed
and confused I become!
Have you ever thought about how precise events have been
throughout history that made you, you? It's really nothing short
of miraculous that we are all who we are.
Let's consider me, for example (only because I know me best;
not because I think Tm more of a miracle than you, because we
are all miracles and have our own histories and pathsJ
Think about what all had to line up for you to bo here. With
just one tiny change in history, we would not be who we are. For
me, my mama and daddy met in school and fell in love. Had that
not happened, 1 wouldn't be here. And, it almost didn’t happen.
Mama’s family was from right here in Taylor County. Half of
Daddy’s family was from here, but the other half was from Mis
sissippi. When my grandmother. Mam, was a little girl, her daddy
relocated the family to Butler. They moved here with the tur
pentine industry. Big Daddy had an option. He could stay in
Mississippi or moved to Butler. He decided to move. Had he not,
Mam wouldn’t have met her husband from Taylor County, and
my daddy wouldn’t have been bom. Therefore, he wouldn’t have
met my mama, and I wouldn’t have been bora.
My parents moved away from Butler when they graduated from
high school. Years later, The Taylor' County News went up for
sale, and my parents bought it, and we moved to Butler. That
almost didn’t happen. Mama and Daddy were very happy in
Cumming, GA, where Daddy ran the newspaper. It was a great
job, with lots less responsibility than owning his own paper, and
Mama didn’t really want to move. But, my grandfather, Pa, got
sick, and Mam needed help. So, they bought the paper, and we
moved. That possibly wouldn’t have happened if Pa hadn’t been
sick. If wc hadn’t moved to Butler, I may not have met my hus
band, and my babies wouldn’t be who they are.
These little pivotal moments have occurred all through history.
One little change would have had a huge impact, since nothing
would be as it is.
What if our ancestors had never come to America? What if the
Native Americans had never been displaced (that includes some
of my ancestors and probably yours, too). Things would be dif
ferent. Our ancestors may have never met. We wouldn’t be who
we are today. These chance meetings and relocations have been
occurring since the day of creation. One little change could have
made all the difference,
God had all this in place since the beginning. He put all the
pieces in place for us to be who wc are. It’s amazing! WOW!
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By Beb wade
Mother’s Day 2023
Mama died an unbelievable twenty years and six months
ago. I miss her to this day.
She loved my wife Brynda, her grandson Bryan, and me
with all her heart. As for Bryan, well let’s just say he was
an extraordinarily special grandson to her. Oh, how she
loved that boy child!
Mama’s birthday was last week, when she was bom in
1927, parents did not know the sex of their children until
they were born. Her parents had difficulty agreeing on a
name for mama. The midwife left and doing due diligence
to the State of Georgia dutifully inserted on the birth cer
tificate name line, “Baby Girl.’’ She then temporarily re
corded that vital form.
When mama applied for her Old Age, Survivors, Disabil
ity Insurance (Social Security) she discovered her parents
never got around to updating her birth certificate with her
chosen name! According to the Social Security Adminis
tration of the US government, mama’s first name was
“Baby Girl."
Mama grew up on a farm and graduated from Damascus
High School, Class of 1944. World War II was raging all
around the globe and every able-bodied American had to
pull their own weight (work) in society and so mama took
a job as a telephone operator in Blakely, Georgia. Opera
tors were mostly women who made manual connections
between customer telephones, managed all manner of
emergency calls, and connected all long-distance calls to
far-away places.
After the war ended, mama married Charles Wade of
Miller County, Georgia. Two years later, they started a fam
ily by giving birth to the first of two babies (as they were
called in the 40s), both sons (one of the only two genders
before America went Woke and then broke). She loved the
three men in her family. Mama devoted her life to her hus
band and sons.
Mama, like her mother, was a teetotaler. Dad was a vet
eran of the US Navy; he talked and drank like a sailor.
Mama went to church all her life but met her savior Jesus
Christ about the time she joined Williamson-Dickie Manu
facturing Company of Bainbridge, Georgia in 1955. She
worked as a seamstress making blue jeans, but her train
ing and supervisory skills became clear to the company.
Forty-three years later, mama retired. She received sig
nificant accolades from an employer grateful for her years
Scripture Of
The Week
As thou knowest not what is the way
of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow
in the womb of her that is with child:
even so thou knowest not the works of
God who maketh all.
Ecclesiastes 11:5, KJV
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of faithful service.
Her husband, my father, became a successful house
builder. He began running with other sailors, soldiers, and
Marines that by then were doctors, lawyers, bootleggers,
and businessmen. That clique was good gamblers, drink
ers, and womanizers. Mama worked hard at supporting a
middle-class home for her family. Mama believed a woman’s
most important job was as a mother to her children. Doing
without was second nature to her. For more than eighteen
years of my life she worked to make a home, supply food,
clothing, and a lot of unnecessary stuff like baseball gloves,
fishing poles, money for movies, and a car for two hard-
headed boys. Mama never thought supplying all that ex
cessive stuff to us was a sacrifice. She always put her boys’
wants before hers. Mama wanted her boys to be safe, edu-
cated, highly motivated, financially secure, happy, and
successful. She took pride in her sons’ achievements.
Dad’s drinking got progressively worse and by this
pundit’s freshman year of high school, I was able to defend
mama from dad’s beatings. His cold beers progressed to
more vigorous alcoholic beverages. There were frequent
times I found myself dragging his unconscious body from
the yard to the interior of the house just to hide his drunk
enness. As his business failed, mama had to contribute
more of her wages to keep the family out of the poorhouse.
Dad mercifully divorced mom before I left for college.
Mama supplemented my wages during college, never said
no to my requests for help or complained. 1 wish 1 had
been less of a burden to her, but good mothers never let
their children see themselves as burdens. I wish I could
say 1 was never a disappointment to her. I cannot do that.
When I let her down and admitted my faults to her, she
quickly forgave me. She never reminded me of my flaws
and for that I was always grateful.
Now in the autumn of my life, Mama has been dead
twenty years, I am a nearing her age when she died, and
still, I find myself missing her, especially on Mother’s Day!
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ers are a child's greatest blessing.
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0 Abraham
Became
By Billy Powell
Abraham (then called Abram) first appears in the Bible
in Genesis 11: 26. His father Ter ah was the eighth genera
tion from Adam’s third son, Shem, In verse 31, Terah took
his son Abram, his grandson Lot (son of Haran), and
Abram’s wife Sarai from Ur of the Chaldees in Babylon to
Haran where they settled. In Genesis 12: 1-2, God tells
Abram: “Leave your native land (Haran) and go to the land
of Canaan, There, I will give you many descendants and
they will bless you and make your name famous.” Verses 4
-5 states: “when Abram was 75 years old, he departed
Haran to travel to Canaan with his wife Sarai, his grand
son Lot, and all their slaves.” Once they arrived in Canaan,
verse 7 states: “The Lord told Abram “This is the land I
am going to give you and your descendants.”
Due to famine in Canaan, Abraham and his party went
into Egypt—-called the granary of the region. There he
encountered Pharoah, who desired Sarai, a beautiful
woman. To protect his life, he posed as Sarafs brother.
When Pharoah learned of this ruse, he returned Sarai to
her husband and urged them to leave. Later, Abraham had
a similar experience with Ahimelech, the king of a Philis
tine city called Gerar, which was near Gaza,
By the time Abraham and his party arrived near Jerusa
lem, both Abraham and his nephew Lot experienced diffi
culties grazing their large herds of cattle. So, Lot volun
teered to transfer to the Jordan Valley (Gen 13: 10) which
included Sodom and Gomorrah. Abram settled in the Plain
of Mamre outside Hebron. The Lord intended to destroy
the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but based on
Abram’s urging, God agreed to save the cities if 10 good
men could be found therein. Abram knew his pleas to save
the cities were futile when he saw smoke rising from Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Since Sarai was unable to have children at her advanced
age, she allowed Abram to have a child by their Egyptian
maid named Hagar. So, Hagar bore Abram a son named
Ismael, When Abram was 99 and Sarai 90, the Lord told
them they would bare a son named Isaac-who would be
bom in due time. Sarai was stung by the mockery of Hagar
and her son, Ishmael, so Abram cast the two out as the
Lord told them to do. Hagar left with her son, ishmael,
and Abram provided them with bread and water. At that
time, the Lord renamed Abram to “Abraham” and Sarai to
“Sarah,”
Thereafter, Abraham was put to the ultimate test-
Abraham was told by the Lord to slay his son, Isaac, on a
distant mountaintop as a burnt-offering. At the precise
moment Abraham’s knife was poised to plunge, God stopped
him by placing a ram caught in the thicket as a substitute
offering. The ram was sacrificed instead of Isaac.
Sarah died at the age of 129 and was buried at the Cave
of Machpelah near Ephron. Now aged, Abraham sought a
wife for Isaac— not a Canaanite girl, but one from their
own people. The one chosen for Isaac was Rebekah, the
daughter of one of Abraham’s brothers. Abraham lived to
the age of 175; Sarah to 127.
A strong enmity exists to this very day between Abraham’s
descendants (Jews), and Ishmael’s descendants (Arabs).
Take a look at the modern-day nation of Israel and the
ever-waring Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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