Sitting at the Feet of the Elders

It has been said many times, “If I knew then, what I know now” things would be different. If I knew then, in 1955, that the “burger joint” names McDonald would forever change the restaurant industry and purchased 100 shares of stock for about $2300, now I’d be a skipping all the way to the bank because millions of burgers have been sold worldwide.

In order to acquire some assistance, to help us “know now” some of the more important things of life many times we overlook a key resource. We overlook our senior citizens, our elders, our grand and great grandparents. We over look their year so history that if loaded with experience. We are many times too impatient to wait as they search the memory banks of their minds that have gotten deeper and wider.

At Bethlehem we’ve taken time to hear from our elders, on May 19^th we set aside time to hear their testimony. From the youngest honoree over 84 years young to our senior elder at 102, we set aside time to do what Moses said we should do; “Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long.” And so we all sat, from the child, to the teen and young adult of generation X, to those in mid - life, to the mature, to the recent retiree of the baby boomer generation, we all sat, listen and asked questions as they reviewed their history in conjunction with “His – story.”

Present for the celebration (from left to right) Sis. Ella Mae Wing at a tender 102 years old; Sis. Alice Frazier, Deaconess Waymouth Johnson, Deacon Kenneth R. Coleman and Deaconess Lois Bagby: those unable to attend – Deacon William Hazzard, Sis. Mary Maiden and Deaconess Beatrice Woods.

We’ve Come This Far By Faith