New Beginnings

God give me a special day today. He knew I needed it. It was a year ago today that I lost my job.  For a while I have been working with some ladies as we launch a talk show called "Just Us Three". We haven't hit the air waves yet, but we will soon. Rhonda and Pam have been such a blessing to me. In their own ways they have been teaching me to trust God in all things.  So I decided from listening to them talk and hearing Joyce Meyer talk as well to trust God for everything. Don't try to figure anything out. He is working it out for my good.  I spent the morning with Rhonda and Pam as we shared ideas, thoughts and testimonies. God is faithful. He knew I needed that. They trust God to give them a good price on tires, and other things they need. It has been truly amazing... I get home and my nephew pulls in the driveway to take me to school. He was with me and took me to school last year. He is actually trying to man up. It is kind of neat to watch him. I get to school ...

August 31, 2010 was the second most painful day of my life.  After 33 years of working through numerous recessions, strikes etc. I found my self out of a job.  Losing a job has its casualties.  It is like the loss of a loved one. I had worked at this place over half of my life. I was 19 when I started working.  A way of life, dealing with adjustments in income, etc.  Here I am at 52 years old starting again. Men do it all the time. Its not so easy for a woman, we are creatures of habit and we like things a certain way. It's hard when God comes in and allows a situation to end.  This was the case here. It was time. There are lessons I have learned through this year. I will share in the following paragraghs. NEVER put your heart and soul into anything that has no Eternal value.  No job is supposed to control your life.  When people that you work for use you up, even though you may be valuable, they will spit you out. Jobs come and jobs go. Build y...

I got the news that a former co-worker had passed away, Wayne Boone... it was shocking. I asked someone what happened and they said he had pneumonia and sepsis and he didn't respond to medication. This is so sad.  I didn't know his name was Jasper Wayne Boone.  Wayne was an unassuming man who loved his work.  He was the contract engineer for a lot of radio stations in the region.  A lot of us radio people knew him.  Wayne was the kind of guy who would shoot the breeze and take the time to answer the question of the moment. Wayne worked hard, but as Matt said he loved what he was doing and was good at it. He understood tubes, RF and other things that the computer geeks didn't understand. Matt worked with him and learned from him as well as Charlie Marlow and others. Radio engineers are a dying breed. The younger folk figure they can do something else and make more money with out the aggravation of being on call and having to go to a station when it storms to re...

    Yesterday a mother had to say goodbye to her 23 year old son. I know this has to be very devastating. I have a niece that is that age. I know it would be very heart-wrenching to have to say goodby to her.  Pray for the mother and the family. That God would heal and be her comfort. A friend of mine lost a son and she said, that parents are prepared to leave before their children. It is the natural order of things. When a child dies it is hard on all involved.      I can't help but think of us as a community, did we fail in some way?  We take our children or nieces and nephews to church, and as they get older they lose interest. WHY?  The world is telling them that serving God is boring and that they would have more fun out in the world doing what ever. First let me say, I know nothing about the circumstances of this young mans death as far as what or who he was involved with. It could have been a case of being at the wrong place at ...

Today at this time six years ago I was in Charleston preparing to have my first eye surgery. It was a cornea transplant on my right eye. I had a condition called kertaconas.  The corna bulges out producing a cone shape. To do a transplant they take an instrument that looks like a buttonholer on a sewing machine and remove the old cornea and then put a new one in; stitches are required. Anyway, I could feel the prayers of people. I was nervous and afraid.  I wondered if I could see any thing after this. Could I work? I had lots of questions. I knew my eyes were getting worse. I associated it with age of more use of the computer. At work we had switched to a computerized system called SMARTS (small market accounts receivable traffic system) and I did the programming of it,until the day I was eliminated.  More time on the computer was an eye strain. Then the General Manager made me mad, we were talking about building a website and I said I would like to maintain it. He act...

It shocked me to pick up the paper this morning to find out that Jimmy Johnson had passed away on Sunday morning.  I have known Jimmy a long time, my dad has known him longer. Many people knew him as Jim Mundy's sidekick on the "Happiness Is" radio program.  Jimmy Johnson took over the program that aired Sunday evenings at 9PM on WJLS. Jimmy or some knew him as "JJ" was a slow talker. When he talked you wanted to help him finish his sentences.  He was kind of different. Jimmy had some health problems.  I met Jimmy in 1977 when I worked a night shift on WBKW. Him and Jim Mundy and some others would come in and run the board for two hours, they would have someone to answer the phone and do dedications.  They like the older groups and quartets.  Jimmy could never manage to learn how to operate the equipment, someone had to help him. Sometimes that job fell to me. In the days when you would use records it was hard because Jimmy would wait until the last ...

  ENTITLEMENT MY foot!!! Working people paid for Social Security!!! Our benefits aren't some kind of charity or handout!!! Congressional benefits - free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days - now THAT'S welfare. And Congress has the nerve to call our retirement an Entitlement? Re-post if you are sick of their crap, and ashamed of our "leaders". I saw this and I re-posted this on FB.  Here is my tale.  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There were millons of people who had lost their jobs, and the price of gas and groceries and goods and services were going up.  There was a lower middle class couple and both of them worked. They weren't rich, they paid most of their bills, and occassionally had a little money to goof off with.  One morning the wife went in to work and was told her job had been eliminated.  She had seen this coming, so she wasn't surprised. She...

Today has been a busy day. I knew it would be, I had to do the broadcast for the church. It is at 8:30AM, to be there at 8:15 or around that time. I had to get up at 7AM. I actually ironed my blouse and skirt.  I had my music and the message ready, I spent yesterday working on it. I also was invited to a family reunion, that I almost wanted to back out of going and I decided to go anyway. They wanted me to sing and speak.  I am an OK singer, but nothing great. In fact , when I was asked I laughed a long time. The broadcast went well, and since Matt didn't particularly want to go with me, I had asked the lady could she get someone to pick me up. She picked me up herself. We went to the park and got things set up. It was an informal church service with "Amazing Grace" song and the word. I am more of a teacher than anything else. I love to teach the Word of God.  I didn't take a long time, because I have been on the other end of a function like this and you don't w...

I spend Sunday riding in the car with my 19 year old neice and nephew. It was an enlightening experience.  Today's youth do not value the things that we call society norms. I know that when you are that age you have your own thoughts and ideas about how the world should work. The thing is, you are under the protection of your parents and grandparents to some degree. They have your back. We were discussing tattoos and piercings. I have been a supervisor and have interviewed people for jobs. There were some that I was kind of iffy about, but I gave them a chance. Only to be proven that my intincts were right. There were some that couldn't fill out the job application. I read the application and talked to them briefly, but I didn't consider them. There were two reason for this. (1). There were the ones that were overqualified and I knew they would get bored quickly. (2). There were the ones whose heart was in the right place, I knew they would never catch on. (3). There ...