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On Tuesday, November 1st, the 2nd graders of St. Michael's Catholic School presented their patron saints. Each 2nd-grade student picked a saint that was special to them and portrayed that saint at Mass. St.
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St. Michael Catholic School students visited the cemetery, placed flowers and prayed for all our departed loved ones in observance of All Souls Day.
Pictured: The 3rd and 4th grade students
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Turtle Wing Foundation Executive Director spoke at the La Grange Ca
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I remember how I viewed my grandmothers through the eyes of a little child. They were old. Their hair was up in a bun, thick eyeglasses, and dresses that looked like they belonged to the 1940s. They shuffled about and sat in their rocker most of the time. One didn’t drive, and the other, well, you better park off to the side until she passed. Before I get ahead of myself, I need to explain that I had a “city” grandma and a “country” grandma. They were different as night and day except for one thing.
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It didn’t matter where you went to church as much as when you went to church. I am not talking about “if” you went to church. It was a given that you went to church. As long as the creeks don’t rise, you went to church. And, by the way, that saying wasn’t about creeks getting too high to cross. That expression was about the Creek Indians rising in war. The time I refer to is after B.C., and even after A.D., was known as A.C. A.C. stands for air conditioning.
Read moreThe 2021 National Day of Prayer will take place Thursday, May 6th at noon on the courthouse lawn. Local Christian leaders will be praying over the seven centers of influence in our lives.
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I don’t know who made up the old nursery rhyme, “Rockabye Baby”. I’m surprised we didn’t all grow up paranoid when we went to sleep! Remember the lyrics? ‘Nuff said. When Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959, did the music really die?
Read moreI yearned for a Christmas that was slow-paced and peaceful. Most importantly I yearned for a Christmas that I could focus on Christ alone. As a boy, it was one present opened and then on to another. As a newlywed and young parent, it was on to the in-laws and then on to the grandparents or a myriad of other relatives that had to be seen during Christmas. As a grandparent, it was not just one grandkid but several that presents had to be bought for, wrapped, delivered, and ooh-ed and aah-d over with multiple pictures of the same scene. I forgot to mention the countless nights before Christmas that one would stay awake, not to catch Santa in the act but to help Santa put together those toys that he left to us parents to do. I finally experienced the Christmas I yearned for.
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