New Beginnings

     One of the greatest blessings and burdens that I have had in my Christian walk is teaching Sunday school. Over the years I have taught students from ages four to adults in their 70’s, The adult can be somewhat intimidating, especially when you have senior saints such as Minister Margaret Copney and other saints like her and Elder Ricky Lewis. Both of them have since gone home to be with the Lord, but there were others. When you had to teach the adults you knew that you had better study the lesson that you were going to teach. There was no half stepping with them. I never wanted to be embarrassed enough to stand before them unprepared.      When I was thirteen, I came to Sunday school and there was a young person teaching our class. It was Youth Sunday, from then on I wanted to be a Sunday school teacher. I love to watch people as they connect with what you are teaching. I was about 22 years old when I started teaching on a regular basis. Before th...

The class of 1975 made it through the Pomp and Circumstance” getting our high school diplomas. June 6, 1975 seems like so long ago, but at the same time it seems like it was only yesterday. SO many decisions that were made that would affect our lives forever. I don’t think that we should hold decisions made by an 18 or 19 year old accountable for the rest of their lives. I was 17 when I graduated from high school and I was a very sheltered 17 year old to say the least. I had never dated. I didn’t date until I was 21. It wasn’t a religious thing, it was more like my mind and my age finally caught up with each other. Some of our class would go to college, some would work and some went into the military. Some would do well in college, some would leave home and go wild, but would eventually settle down into a career, some would marry and divorce, others married later, some would have children and some didn’t. This will cover my first year after graduation, what I did. Some of this some ...