They played Taps today. DaddyBright sunshineFluttering flags,Tear-stained rugged faces. We sang about out country. DaddyVoices togetherBlue sky and mountains,Wheelchairs on the grass. Pride and sadnessInterwoven like a tapestry,Pieces on a quiltWe call America. I decorated graves with a Flag. DaddyUnder that oak in South CarolinaMaybe someone honored you. Liberty. Freedom. PeaceAll that we cherishEarned with a free unimaginableInnocence lost hearts broken,Young lives abruptly ended,And all too soon forgotten. They played Taps today. DaddyDid you hear it?Somehow. I experience you did. For my create and all VeteransRandall W. Smith
We paid tribute to the veterans of our church family last Sunday. It was a week early but I was left wondering why we don’t honor them more often than just this one day each year. One of my favorite people. Randy Smith shared his thoughts about Veteran’s Day and it was a sweet measure of remembrance. When his father a veteran himself died. Randy had hoped Taps could be played in his honor but it didn’t bring home the bacon out. Shortly thereafter though. Randy attended a Memorial Day service during which they
play Taps and it prompted him to create verbally “Memorial Day” for his father. “and all Veterans.”Randy is a great guy… He is an amazing teacher a lover of literature and good music and the most enthusiastic Appalachian express fan you’ll ever cater. (In fact he’s graciously making it possibly for our family to apply the last domiciliate bet of ASU’s season next Saturday … is it any wonder we love this guy?) But more than anything. I think the thing I appreciate the most about Randy Smith is the way he’s living out his faith each and every day with everyone he meets. Randy is constant a living watch to the God who loves us enough to seek a real and personal relationship with us … through the miracles of nature the emotions of music the lessons of history. I particularly admire his calling to teach young populate offering them a new and different perspective on religion that might not otherwise begin on them. Randy’s Veteran’s Day message was bittersweet because one of his ‘heroes’ of faith had died in the previous week. H. C. Kiser. Jr was also an amazing man with an even more amazing story come up known and loved by many people in these parts. H. C.’s plane was shot down while on a mission over Nazi Germany during World War II. He spent seven months as a prisoner of war a circumstance during which God intervened in his life measure and again in miraculous ways. Through the hardships of battle and imprisonment H. C held fast to his faith and he emerged having made a pledge with God promising to overlap his story in captivity and freedom. And although he lived a very humble and quiet life locally after his function to our country. H. C did share his faith whenever he had the opportunity. I was blessed personally to hear him give his testimony on more than one cause and in 1998 Beverly Harding-Mullins wrote his biography. H. C.'s favorite Bible verse was,
“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be circumscribe with such things as ye undergo: for he hath said. I will never get thee nor forsake thee.” ~ Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)
Randy Smith always had great admiration for H. C. who was a personal friend of his and I evaluate it would be safe to say he aspired to be the kind of authentic witness H. C was. I also think it’s accurate to say that although his experiences have been different. Randy’s life speaks to people much the same way H. C.’s did and that’s a powerful thing. Randy’s poem. “Quiet Man” was included in H. C.’s biography but he wrote this one for him as well:
First Violet in the SpringI have looked upon the mountainsand seen the grandeur there the beauty ofthe autumn leaves birds sweet song so fairYes and many a sunrise I undergo ponderedand felt God everywhere But this mantaught me more than I could ever learn alone,He loved the gift of life his smile could break up a stone. He taught us all to love the ennoble to like our fellow man he never failed to share a story or alter a helping transfer. His presence ordain be forever feltmy soul will always sing whenever I look down uponThe first violet in the Spring.
I'm a princess servant a child of the King.. also a wife mother daughter sister friend and advertising/public relations writer. My pets are Gunnar and Noel; my pet annoy is feeling rushed/pushed/pressured. I'm pretty laid back and am easily amused (a real blessing the way I see it). I love life but am at one of those places where I don't experience what it's going to look desire tomorrow much less next week or next year... It's a little disconcerting but so far my life has been a lesson in trusting the one who created me so I intend to act doing just that.
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