Our Wedding Picture, November 27, 1955

Picture taken a couple of years ago.

LIFE

By Edna Ingram, written in 2005, revised for this year. Next week is our 53rd wedding anniversary. This year it falls on Thanksgiving Day. A neat reminder of all we are thankful for.

Our children: Wendell 09/13/1956 Cara Lynn 05/28/58-10/02/1990

When our children were small and so sweet and precious, I thought that no time in life would or could be as good as this! They really were some of the best days of our lives!

Growing up rapidly.

Then they started growing up and their activities multiplied and we were on the road a lot trying to take in all their activities...and I thought that no time in life would ever be as good as this!

Well they were almost grown up and their values echoed our values and we were so proud of them and it was then that finally I began to know that there would be other good times. When they grew up and moved a few hundred miles away I would stand at the window and watch when we expected them to come. I could see headlights top the hill a couple of miles west of us and I would stand at the window and watch to see if the car would turn south at the next hill. Sometimes it did...sometimes it kept going east...but when the car came under the street lights a couple of blocks from our house, I could tell if it was their car and I would turn on the porch light for them. I would stand and watch for hours. It was about a 7 hour drive for them,  and  I would start watching at eleven o:clock just in case they got to leave a little earlier than planned. One night I stood and watched until 3 in the morning...then decided to go ahead and go to bed. That was the time plans had changed and they were not coming. It was easy to stand for hours watching, because by the time I knew that car was not theirs another would be topping the hill and I just had to wait to see if that one was them. It was wonderful standing and watching and anticipating their coming. And I thought that was a very good time in our lives.

Then the grandchildren came and what a grand time that was! We were busy going to their activities as they were growing up and it was so good to watch them as they excelled in lots of things they did. They are grown now and their values echo their parents' values, and when they come, we are not situated geographically where we can watch for their headlights...we just have to be content with their cars driving up in our driveway...but it seems that no time in life can top this either.

Now our son is going through all these phases in his life...the last one being the 'empty nest syndrome', which is the most distasteful of them all...but it has to be endured for the next phase to come around.

I'm excited for him! I'm excited for us! Every phase of life has its great moments, its griefs and its missions. We don't know what the future holds, but we know Who holds the future and we are going to rush into it with faith in God, without fear, and with great anticipation...knowing that it holds a lot of things that we have never experienced before!

(Maxine and I look like we are in agony!!!) LOL

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God spoke light into existence. He created the world and He separated the waters from the dry ground and He called the dry ground "earth". 

He stacked up tall mountains and He scooped out great valleys. He created the trees and all the good vegetables and the flowers.  He spread the grass around upon the surface of the earth and then He sprinkled the stars into galaxie after galaxie.

He created the sun and the moon and He commanded the seasons of the year to not cease, so they will be here as long as the earth stands.  He created great fish and little fish and put them in their place.  He made the fowls of the air and they fly above us in God's great majesty of the space that He created...and we marvel at them.  

He made all the animals and the creatures that crawl upon the ground and...finally He made man.  And man got so smart sometime later...in his own earthly wisdom, that he said: "There is no God."  Ironic, isn't it?  Only a spiritually blind man would even dare to say that.

Christian Love

I had no time to meditate

When my babes were small;

So I could write no poems back then,

No, I wrote none at all.

But now my children are all grown;

And God has placed with me,

A lot of time upon my hands

That I should not let flee.

And God has placed within His Book

Words to let us know...

The Christian woman has a place

For all her love to grow.

It grows up in her children

And spreads through out her home;

It goes with them when they grow up

Where ever they may roam.

It spreads through out her neighborhood

And even through the town;

Her love can help lift up the ones

Who feel so trodden down.

It's true our children need us most

When they are still at home;

But other people need us too,

When they are grown and gone.

So Christian women, let's unite

And do the best we can...

Where ever we happen to find ourselves

On foreign or native land.

©Edna L. Ingram -Christian Woman Magazine, 8/79

Statements from our founding fathers and quotes like this from the 19th Century, are not taught in our schools anymore...but they should be. What a great heritage for our schools, if they were...and they should be taught in our homes...along with the Bible:

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"If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity."

-Daniel Webster, February 23, 1852, died in October of same year.

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Some wise words from our first president: 

First President 1789-1797

"I am sure there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that Agency which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them." -George Washington 

Born: February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia

Died: December 14, 1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia