My father tells this ...

story of these two turtles down in the swamp in Louisiana during the Great Depression.    They were starving, near death,  down to their last bowl of meal.  So,  the older turtle,  sent the younger turtle, to the store to buy some food,  because he was reasoned to be swifter than the much older turtle.  If they had to starve to death, they made a pact to starve to death together.  The older turtle promised to not eat anything until the younger, swifter, turtle got back,  just as quickly as he could.

Well twenty years go by very slowly.  The floods and high waters  came and went.  Many people were born and many  people died.  So,  the poor turtle that had been left in the shack guarding the little bit of meal , lamented aloud;   "Well, I bedder go head, eat this  luddle bit of meal and die!"

The other turtle hollers back from the porch he had NEVER left; "I knew bedder than to trust you !  …you sneaky muthafucker!"

What is my point?  There is no point.  We see what we want to see, we believe what we want to believe.

You can be like that turtle and lean to your own understanding or you can trust GOD.

My mother demanded to hate GOD and her father,  secretly for 87 years.  Nothing could drag her to the truth.  If you knew her and had no idea of the evil that lurked within her, don't feel bad or stupid.  We were terrified enough knowing the little we did know.

Please do not be like her!  Please do not be double minded, "color struck" and racist.  Don't be ignorant and superstitious.  Do read your Bible.  Read it over and over.  Never tire of it.  The Bible is a living breathing organism .  Trust GOD to open up your dull understanding.  Discern GOD's WORD for yourself.

And, sometimes a rejection is a blessing!  I thank the public school system for throwing me out!  There is no greater joy than not "hitting a lick", kicking back, gardening, painting, creating dolls.

PTL!

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