(photo of Ruth Turner, daughter Donna faughn, Granddaughter Amber tatum, and great-granddaughter lyssabeth tatum, taken about 2008) “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck” (Proverbs 1:8-9). So said the wise man Solomon.  Many of us were raised in homes where our fathers and mothers loved and cared for us. They provided for our needs and taught us much about how to live in this world. Some were blessed to have both parents as faithful Christians, and some of us were not. This was the case in my home. My father was not a faithful Christian while…

The picture reproduced here is an image of the way things used to be. It is also an image of the way things had never been before.  Four of us used to gather around a table to eat – just like the picture shows. In that way, the picture shows the way things used to be.  Four of us had never gathered around a table at a Panera Bread in Nashville. In that way, the picture shows the way things never had been before.  This picture was taken on the next to last day of 2016. It was taken close to the end of a whirlwind and emotional week for the “Faughn Family of…

SOURCE: For Better or For Kids by Patrick & Ruth Schwenk (page 76)