From muddy to mushy

Muddin'

Mushy'

'Lil Mac sure did clean up! Love, Aunt Mimi

In Memory Of Teddy Ray Lewis

In 1953, my uncle, Teddy Ray Lewis an 8 year old was on his way to the store for a loaf of bread. While riding his bicycle to the store a young man under the influence of alcohol ran over and killed Teddy Ray. The drunk driver was leaving a liquor store. One day while I was talking to my Granny, she pulled out boxes of memories. These boxes were kept in a deep, dark place in her heart and in a deep, dark place in the closet. The box from her heart shared the story of Teddy’s death and the box from her closet contained Teddy’s blood-stained clothes that still held the money for the bread, floral cards from the funeral, and various snapshots and memorabilia.

These thoughts rushed into my head as I considered how nice it would be to buy a loaf of bread at a local convenience store if Goree is voted wet. Then I thought, it's not worth the cost. On November 8th 2005, we as Goree citizens exercised our right to vote. It passed. Even though, I have bought milk and bread at Goree's Lake Creek Beverage Store it wasn't without remembering the uncle I never knew.

The highway where he was ranover.

Bibleman

My husband says one of the main reasons that I do what I do, Children's Ministry, is because I get to act like a kid. He may be right...Fiesta VBS was a hoot. And who else would die for Bibleman's pic and autograph, but me?

We're Off To See The Wizard!

We're off to see the wizard

The wonderful wizard of oz

We hear he is a wiz of a wiz

If ever a wiz there was

If ever oh ever a wiz there was

The wizard of oz is one because

Because because because becaaaause

Because of the wonderful things he does

bum bum bum bum bum bum bum

We're off to see the wizard

The wonderful wizard of oooooz

Yes, I sang it. And it took a lot of rewinding to get that much of it. I'm still working on the skip, though. Well, I love the movie and I had dogs, named Wizard (grey poodle) and Oz (eskimo spitz/chow), to prove it. I lived out the movie, too.

Upon graduating from high school, I thought I would venture, like Dorothy, to a better place, college. Only to find, it's not all it's cracked up to be! Which in turn revealed my intermittent lack of heart, courage, and brains. I don't know what or who I was searching for, but one day I found Him.

On July 4th, 2002, a good witch knocked at my door. No not really, it wasn't even a lady, it was a guy named Rusty. And he wasn't a witch he was a youth minister. He helped me realize that I had the power to go 'home' the entire time I'd been wandering. We prayed and I reacquainted myself with Jesus, the One with all the heart, courage, and brains I had been looking for.