Lee’s Amazing Grace
A Little Closer to God from the Second Row in Church
The Church
I grew up in church on the 2nd row with limitless coddling, prodding, pinching, discipline and endless love. Long before kinder garden or preschool we learned in the house of the Lord what was acceptable behavior. At an early age I learned what the essence of love was. I felt a warmth that soothed my soul. Maybe it was my constant attendance on the second row from conception till about age 13. Mostly unfocused on the total sermons but I was able to absorb some highlights and visualize a picture scenario in my head.
Now nearly 60 years later, I see that row online from a state far away from that Mississippi Church. Just the sight of that 2nd row and it immediately brings to mind the many good times from long ago. My father is still holding down that row at age 90 with only the sweet memory of my mother sitting beside him.
One of the things in my life that made me work to be a better person and always strive as the preacher said. My interpretation of ‘strive’ is: “You don’t just want to be a weed in a open field of weeds, but rather an Old Antique Country Rose that fought to survive as a thing of beauty and inspiration that gives hope to all the plants, flowers, weeds and fledgling trees that will long provide shade to the generations of those around us whose ancestors songs still echo in the Mississippi wind “. .
September 4, 2016 (while getting ready to go to church)
Copyright © 2016 E. Dampeer
From the Seeds of Post Election Despair How does your garden Grow
Each day I awake to Deep Sorrow, Misery, Despair, Uncertainty Joylessness and Hopelessness.
This from a Glass Half Full Personality Type.
Then I have to surgically drive out the darkness.
With the Light of Love, Hope, Joy, Self Education and the seeds of positive actions.
These things provide light in our darkest times and makes our garden grow tall and strong and proud this gives us HOPE!
More importantly it helps maintain our Humanity.
Which keeps us from becoming one of the many monsters who has escaped their closets or slipped from under their bare beds. That exist in our Darkest Nightmares.
By E. Dampeer Copyright © Nov 2016
” It has been said that our hopes are stronger than our fears “
But you have to
VOTE VOTE VOTE
In order to wipe the Pain AWAY