I think it helps if we -
smile at strangers
ask people questions about themselves
sit beside someone sitting alone
another place for a teacher to write
smile at strangers
ask people questions about themselves
sit beside someone sitting alone
Nothing in this world
compares to the comfort and security
of having someone just hold your hand.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your blessings, see what God has done;
Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
- Johnson Oatman, Jr.
I was 20. I never played a Hammond organ until we were married and living in an apartment on Dominion Street.
Our friend, Neil, drove a bakery truck, but he got into selling Hammond organs. He worked part-time selling them up on Mountain Road. Once in a while, he would pick me up and take me there. Maybe after the place was closed. Anyway, that's where I started playing.Then Neil got me a key and I started practicing at the Wesleyan Church. I would walk down to the church on a Saturday morning.I didn't know what I was practicing for. I just loved the organ and wanted to learn how to play it.When Annette MacCallum had a baby, I was asked to be the organist.I was always into music and I seemed to be around someone who could sing. I sang with Bethany and then I was in a quartet in Moncton. We would drive all the way down to Beulah to sing and drive back the same night.One night I felt the Lord talking to me. Maybe you should do that more.I came to Beulah and I went to the altar and decided I needed to do it.I talked with Marina.It was 1959.We sold our things, like the television and fridge.
We moved home to the farm.I was on the road full-time for ten years.After, we still travelled for camp and revival meetings when on vacation from work.- Dad
A movie based on the life of Gertrude Ederle, it is a wonderful story about family, courage, resiliency and persistence.
In 1926, Ederle proved that female athletes could compete in physically demanding sports and were not inferior to men. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel and she did it two hours faster than the men who had made the swim. Two million people welcomed her back in New York City.
"The challenge wasn't just to swim the English Channel, it was also to prove that it could be done by a woman." - Gertrude Ederle
You will find a documentary of her life with interviews here and here.