As it happened, the first Sunday that we were able to be properly dressed for church was Easter Sunday. Easter meant nothing to me except that Grandmother had to have a corsage to be properly dressed, and we had to leave early to find an open flower shop. Pop drove us to the front of […]
“The child mind is the greatest mind because its innocence is its best and sure defense, because it is not surrounded by crowding concepts and because it is free to develop symmetry, color, sound, light and new ideas. In short, it is free to create, and its supreme goal is to spread happiness in all
“Jesus said that we should pray without ceasing,” the Sunday school teacher said. “That’s pretty hard to do. I think it would be good if we tried to pray every five minutes.” Wow! What an idea. I was excited about it and decided to try it. I was a sophomore in high school and carried
When I was three, my mother remarried Lucky, who delighted in beating my brother and me. There were many reasons, and the beatings occurred daily. I tried hard to do perfectly everything I was told, but the rules shifted and changed: the order in which chores were to be done, what I had been told
