By LARRY BAKER I think my Grandfather first taught me. I’m not sure. What I do remember is the way he treated me. I recall some places he lived – in a white frame house on the side of a hill, “home” for a tenant farmer growing cotton and tending a garden; a rented, unpainted clapboard house a dozen miles
Read moreLIFELINES By LARRY BAKER My words came back to help me. No, I didn‘t muff the line. I know the cliché says, “Your words will come back to haunt you.” Larry Baker I have seen it happen–words previously written, pulled out of a file folder and read for others to hear. The exchange took place between two ministers. One was
Read moreBy Larry Baker I caught myself acting on a childhood lesson on a one-way street. I walked from a building and headed toward my car across the street. At curbside I stopped, as a voice in my head instructed, “Look both ways!” I looked first right, then left, and caught myself chuckling. “Why?” I wondered. “Traffic’s only coming from one
Read moreBy Larry Baker During the middle of worship recently, I asked myself, “Why did it take so long?” Mentally I underscored “so long?” Two carols triggered the query: “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus.” God’s ancient people lived, and died, with the promise unfulfilled for what seemed like an eternity. I know: Paul declared the promise
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Spirit Of Abilene 