As I sit here tonight,I remember the things I learned as a child, great family values,and the love of God...I miss allot of things about the days of my childhood,endless days of playing in the yard with all the kids in the neighborhood...at our house,hide & seek at dark,football for days on end... but there are also things about my childhood I do not miss... lonely days at school with no friends to speak of, or one or two friends that were out sick that day so no one to play with on the playground because my brothers or sisters were in different grades and had recress at another time that me... then came Junior High school... God had put 2 or 3 really great friends in my life and things were really great.... or so I thought, God had different plans. Daddy being in the Navy, we packed up and moved to the other end of the world....we went to Christchurch, New Zealand.... and once again I had to make new friends something I was not good at... but God prevailed.... He gave me a group of wonderful people who grew to love me for who I was inside and out...and then 3 short years later fruit basket turn over again...and we landed in Opp Alabama, August 1974... and so I began my Senior year of High School knowing only my cousins, one male, one female, one popular cheerleader type, the other common down to earth wallflower type guy. both wonderful people with well established group of friends with out much room for one more, I once again felt very much alone....But once again God had a plan.... He place a group of people around me that showed me,what God was all about... with the help of people like Terri Gooden Mikel, Lowel & Debbie Smith... and the youth of Beulah Baptist Church in 1974-75.. I learned that walking with God was just what I needed...
Jumping a few years later... in 1999 I believed God tested my faith.... It was time for my Father Harold Glenn Williams to go home to be with the Lord... I thought my world was shaken... I held onto Jeffery with all I had in me... I cried till I believed I could cry no more... then out of the blue it hit me... God was not trying to hurt me, he was healing Daddy... the only way to fix Daddy's broken heart,(he had a bad heart) was to take him home to heaven....I miss him everyday but I know he is in a beautiful place and one day I will see him again...
Tonight I heard a friend who just had her Father go home to be with the Lord, tonight her father in law... also went home to be with the Lord... Father be with this family wrap them in your loving arms.... hold them tightly in your mighty grace...
i can tell you this God's grace will hold you, and his plan will be followed, one way or another... so if you do his will his way... Life will be better... he does not promise an easy life just a life full of mercy and grace and love and friends... Thank You God for you Son Jesus who die at Calvary for me and my Sins....
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