My Fondest Memory Of My Dad - A Note About My Past

My Fondest Memory Of My Dad

I'm sure each one of us children had a special time with dad growing up. Even though we had some rough times, the older I get the more the fond memories over shadow any of the bad ones.   My dad was a very hard working man.  My dad would come home from work, eat dinner with us and disappear into the basement to work on rebuilding a motor or some other car part.  When we would go into his workroom we could always find walnut shells laying around because dad loved walnuts.

One day maybe even on a Sunday evening my Dad sat down on the front porch swing with me. This was highly unusual because it was just me and my dad.

I was singing some church songs.  I loved to sing when I was little, probably because my grandmother would always tell me how good I could sing.  My dad sat there with a happy smile while he  listened to every song and listened to me chatter away like most little girls do.

It meant allot to me because He wanted to hear what I had to say and not only that but He loved listening to every word.

I thank the Lord for having a dad who cared about his family and provided our needs.  I thank the Lord for had knowing him and loving him.  What I would do just to sit beside him and hear everything he had to say.  I know I would love every minute , every second, every word.

Susan Y Nikitenko
June 14th, 2014

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A Hungry Bear

A Hungry Bear

When I was growin' up, even though I lived in the hills of W.Va, I never saw a bear roamin' around anywhere.  I might of heard a story or two about one, or saw one on TV but never where I grew up.  My mother told me just the other day, she saw a bear.  Her guestimation , he was a big one about 400 pounds.   He was hungry apparently because he had drug their storage container out into the driveway, ripped it open somehow, sat on his rear end and filled up on bird seed.  My mother told me she watched him sit there for along time.  She said, she wasn't about to go out there and shew him away.  She said he could have all the bird seed He wanted because she wasn't goin' to be tryin' to run off some 400 pound bear.

Most people know to respect a bear, because he is a powerful animal and you don't want to make one mad.

None of us would go out and fight some bear under normal circumstances.  We would avoid it at all costs. In old shows on TV you might see Daniel Boone shoot off his gun to chase off a bear, or if you live out in the boonies somewhere.

I thought of David from scripture, He killed a bear.  It wasn't over eating honey, It wasn't over eating birdseed..... When was it a right time the fight a bear?  when the bear was a danger to the sheep. David,by the power of God, was able to kill a bear with his bare hands.

Sometimes we have to fight things bigger than we are.  Things that under normal circumstances we would avoid.  There is a right time to fight and a right time to avoid fighting.  Fighting for what is right may not require killing a bear like David did, but standing up for what it right when it is very hard to.

Susan Y Nikitenko

June 7th, 2014

Ecclesiastes 3:8 (KJV)
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

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