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Millard B Grimes President
Make Memories
While There's Time
This past week I had to
make a trip to Houston, Texas.
The occasion was the wedding
of my eldest child, Brarmon. R
,aas a time of joy, excitement
and apprehension.
First, it is comforting to
know that he has found the
woman that makes him
happy. I know there is no
doubt he loves Michele and
they make the perfect couple.
As a!I parents lmow, whatev-
er makes your children
happ> makes you happy as
well.
I guess it's natural for par-
ents to be a little apprehen-
sive when their children
marry. All of a sudden, that
child that you have nurtured
and cherished all those years
is on their way to a new life.
All of a sudden, you realize
they are no longer a child, but
an adult and soon have chil-
dren of their own. As a par-
ent, you also realize what a
trelllendous responsibility
they have accepted and won-
der if you've done your best
of preparing them for it.
There are also things to
be excited abotl$, getting to
know the family and having
mother d ghter or son to
cherisiL lhe thoughts of
grandchildren also come to
mind and nothing is better
than having a grandchild. It's
funny really, while grandchil-
dren love their morn and dad,
there is a special bond
between them and their
grandparents. It's hard to
explain, you don't love them
anymore than your own chil-
dren, but there is something
different about the relation-
ship. I guess some of it is
parental instinct and you
learn as your children grow,
not to sweat the little things.
So, grandfathers and grand,
nmthers have a tendency to
be a little more understand-
ing with gn:andchildren.
1 COULD GO on and on,
but you get the licture, of how
your emotions ai, like a roller
"Memories of
those times on the
baseball field, or
the funny dance
costumes are ones
you cherish for-
erer..."
them, cherish them and that
I am proud of them,
It is really true, that old
liche, "When their young,
eir on your minds, when
they become older they are
on your heart."
A LOT OF MY time today
is spent working. There are
several reasons for that, but
the biggest reason is that
there are no children at home.
However, when they were
younger, there was always
something that required time.
We didn't always have all the
things we wanted, but we had
all the things we needed. That
was because I spent my time
coaching Little Iaffue base-
ball, football and softball,
going to dance recitals, going
to Six Flags or the zoo and so
on and so on. I spent a great
deal of time with my children
when they were grovdng up.
I don't regret one minute of
it. The only thing I do regret
is that we didn,t hWe enough
of those moments together.
So, my advice to all of you
young people that are antici-
pating the birth of a child, or
enteringinto marriage, would
be simply this.., cherish the
time you have and spendas
much of it as possible with
your spouse and your chil-
dren, because before you
know it, and before you are
ready for it, they will be
plunge of matrimony,.
Having said all if that,
noWt can get to the point,Both
of my children are married
now and have new lives.
There is not a day that goes
by that I do not think about
their chitdh()d, the things-we
used to do together, and how
much life has changed since grown and making a family
then, Each and'every day I of their own. Memories of
those-times on the baseball
field, or the funny dance cos-
tumes are ones you will cher-
ish forever, even when your
children are making memo-
ries of their own with their
own families.
pray for them, ask God to keep
them and their families safe
and help them to remember
that I will always be there for
them. I also try and remind
myself each day that I need
to let them know that I love
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Heed the 'Snake Rule' of
There is only one way to
reach Daufuskie Island,
,South Carolina, and that is by
boat.
I boarded on nearby
Hilton Head Island for the 45-
minute trip over to
Daufuskie.
In the last century, there
was a working plantation
here by the name of Melrose.
A facsimile of that plantation
has been recarved from the
wooded thickets.
Melrose now offers its
members peaceful, quiet,
gracious hospitality, not to
mention a beautiful inn, cot-
tages on the beach, horseback
riding, tennis and golf on a
Jack Nicklaus course. It was
the golf that lured me there.
On the par-4 fourteenth, I
hooked my drive into the
woods. As I drove off in my
cart in search of it, my part-
ner said, "Be careful. They've
been seeing a lot of snakes
lately."
Snakes are right up there
with the things I fear most.
Lightning is on that list. So is
flying in bad weather at night,
the dentist and revenge-
minded ex wives.
"What kind of snakes
have they been seeing?" I
asked my fellow competitor.
"Rattlesnakes, I guess,"
he said.
I DON'T KNOW why I
asked that silly of a question.
As far as I'm concerned, a
snake is a snake. I didn't pay
enough attention in Boy
Scouts to be able to determine
when I step on a snake
whether it is going to bite me,
coil around me and squeeze
me to death, or talk about all
the tat s it has beeh eating late-
ly.
"If they ain't got shoul-
ders," my boyhood friend and
idok Weyman C.
Wannamaker, Jr., used to say,
"I don't want to be near them."
Weyman's uncle had
frightened him about the
dreaded "cottonmouth water
rattler."
"My uncle says that's the
meanest snake there is,"
Weyman explained. "They'll
follow you home and wait for
you to come out of the house
the next morning."
"Do you think it's safe to
go into the woods after my
ball?" I asked my partner, as
I reminded myself golf balls
cost only $2.S0.
"Just be careful around
thick brush and fallen logs,"
he said.
I DROVE MY cart into
the woods and was about to
get out when I noticed all I
could see around me was
thick brush and fallen logs.
"One other thing!" my
partner yelled to me. "Snakes
climb up trees, sometimes,
and they can fall off on your
head."
I might have been able to
deal with thick brush and the
fallen logs. The part about a
snake falling on my head did
it, and from that point on I
played by the '-'snake rule,'"
which clearly states, "Any
player who hits a ball any-
where there might be a snake
can forget about that ball and
drop another in the fairway
with no penalty."
I was at Melrose t
remained out of the:
and never saw snake
My partner,
had to play
one day.
"She went into
on 11 and sawa
explained. "Best
ever happened to me.
"What do you
that?" I asked.
"The minute
running," he said,
up golf forever."
will let a driver in the line of
traffic, there are those who
will stop at a light and leave
the entrance to a business or
side street open, and there
are those who will still use
their turn signal, but we also
read and hear of road rage
and general discourtesies. In
stores, acts of kindness are
fading, in grocer] stores, and
even in some there
are those who only care for
self. Although the New
Testament may be approach-
ing 2000 years old, the Golden
Rule is stiU golden.
If a person were to care-
full), consider what Matthew
says in his gospel, he would
find there are two aspects to
the Golden Rule. There is a
positive sidatl;ere is a
negatil,e side: The negative
side says that we are not to
do things unto others that we
do not want done to us. There
is a positive side to the rule.
We are to go and do what we
would like done unto us. We
are not only not to harm oth-
ers, but we are to go and show
acts of kindness.
says in Proverbs
man that hath
shew
way: "What goes
cmes around."
Solomon:
"Cast thy bread
waters: for
after
Today, why not
concerted effort not
to be unkind, but to
extra special
someone an act
even if the3
is still golden.
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Hog00 asvme
Prede(:tssor to the Hogansville
WINS FOR SHEHFF BY HUGE MA00RITY
Go back to the days of
your childhood and try to
remember those early
Sunday School days. Go back
to those days of summer
Vacation Bible School.
Remember the Bible stories,
the games, the crafts, the
grape popsicles, and the skits.
I can remember some of
those days. I guess my gen-
eration can say that those
were the good old days. In
thinking about those days, I
can remember in Bible
School and in Sunday School
being taught the Golden Rule.
We as children were taught
to do unto others as we would
have them do unto us. The
Golden Rule is found specif-
ically in Matthew 7:12 which
says, "Therefore all things
whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is the
law and the prophets."
Although times have
changed, society has
changed, people have
changed, and practices have
changed, the principles of the
Word of God have not
changed. Truly the Golden
Rule is still golden.
I wonder if today's gener-
ation had that rule instilled
in them as previous genera-
tions, if we would see the vio-
lence we see today in our
land? We hear the horror sto-
ries of school shootings, we
hear of the accounts of bul-
lies in our schools, and many
times we wonder what has
happened to our young peo-
ple. But my question is:
Where are the parents?
Where are the parents who
raised their children in
church? Where are the par-
ents that stood behind the
teacher when the teacher dis-
ciplined the student at
school? Where are the par-
ents that taught their children
the Golden Rule? I admit that
despite the best efforts of
some parents, there are some
young people who still get into
major trouble. However,
compare the problems of
today with the problems of
yesterday, and we can see the
vast difference. Why?
I feel like the reason we
have such cliques in school,
such acts of bullying, and
such incidents of revenge is
because we have forsaken the
biblical principle that men
have referred to as the
Golden Rule. May we be also
reminded that a lot of our
young people have not only
forsaken the GoldenRule, but
we as adults have done the
same. We have been so
engrossed in a self-preserv-
ing society that we have for-
gotten about the other guy.
On our roads common cour-
tesy is almost a thing of the
past. There are those who still
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