"GOD's going to have His way!"

Let me say that the way I always heard it; "GAWD gon' have Hiz Way!"  For far too long far too many people have believed that dialect (the way you talk and sound) is a sign of ignorance, a lack of intelligence.

Speech is a form of communication.  No matter where we live we all have certain dialects.  My cousins in Chester, Pa called it pop.  We called it soda or co-ca-cola.  No one was wrong.  It is just communication.

I grew up around a lot of old county folks that talked "funny".  My granddaddy said "yesdiddy" instead of yesterday, "Ah reckon so" for maybe.  But, he was brilliant!

Colloquialisms don't color your brain or prevent you from critical thinking.  I might slip up and say "sump'um" for something.  But don't you dare think I'm a dummy.

Those old people taught me a lot about Christ.  The first song I learned was "Jesus loves me."  "Jesus loves me this I know because the Bible tells me so."  That was music to my ears.  It was obvious to me that I wasn't loved by a lot of people.  But, I knew this man named Jesus loved me.

You are going to be rebuked and reviled in this world children.  Many people are going to try and take advantage of you.  Some will try to trade your little body for money.  Some will try to convince you that you are nothing.  Just another blood clot.

There will be some that will lay hands on you, beat you unmercifully.  Call you foul names, hurt your feelings, break your little heart daily for their sadistic pleasure.  Don't you worry about them.  You just hold on. Live right, love the LORD.  Listen to the wisdom of your elders.

GOD will take care of all those evildoers in His own time and in His own way.

I'm proud to be a country girl.  Proud that I can speak "country" and Standard English.  I am proud that my granddaddy was a saved sanctified Christian man.  I'm glad I listened to him when he told me to;"Keep yersef up! Don't let nobody tear you down.  Love duh LAWD wid all your heart baby."

It will not hurt us as a people to go back to some of those old country ways.   Listen to some of that old country music.  We need to introduce our children to the Harmonizing Four, the Swan Silvertones, the Mighty Clouds of Joy.

"Dear LAWD if I git too high, bring me down." Come back down children. Come back to the old roots, the old sayings that brought you here.  Do not dismiss your old relatives, grandparents and great grandparents as a bunch of old ignorant fogies.  They knew some things that we should never forget.

Go back to the old landmark.  Go back to loving and sharing.  "Don't git too big fa' yo' britches." "Don't start smelling yo'sef. Don't forgit GAWD!"