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Joe Grimaud
SETTING BORDERS
Igrew up in a great Christian family. Went to church at least twice on Sunday and on Wednesday eve- nings and knelt at an altar in an old fashioned
Methodist Church to
receive Christ into my life at an early age. With that I would like to tell you I then lived a near perfect life and never sinned or did anything wrong. But, if I told you that, you probably would not believe me anyway because of the experiences in your own life. But the Christian raising by very Godly and loving parents created an inner part of my life that load- ed me down with guilt and conviction anytime I
did betray my conscience and go astray.
Every Christmas season my father would give each of us children, (there were four of us at that time), five dollars to spend on Christmas presents for the family. Five dollars might not seem like much now, but back in the 1940’s it was a suf- ficient amount, if not a significant amount. So off I went to town to do my Christmas shopping. In those days, even as a young boy of eight or ten, it was not unusual to allow someone my age to ride a bike up Broad Street (the main shopping street) in Augusta, Georgia, on my own. And I
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Gladys Grimaud
A MOTHER’S INCREDIBLE LOVE
On October 29, 1941, a very fa- mous man once said,
“ Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in noth- ing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of History tells us about a
honor and good sense.”
man named Winston Churchill whose words empowered and encouraged a nation to win a war against Hitler. On September 3, 1939, Great Britain declared war on Germany, and Churchill declared nothing less than victory at the expense of blood, toil, tears and sweat as they stood alone against a powerful evil dictator. Instead of running away from those daunting words, the people of Britain leaned into them with courage. While I greatly admire Winston Churchill and the British people for their perse- verance during the tumultuous period of World War II, I have reserved my greatest admiration for an incredible woman I call “Aunt Faye.” As destiny would have it, she was appropriately named Faye being the meaning of the name is confidence, trust, belief. While Churchill’s courage is plastered on the world stage of his- tory, Aunt Faye’s love and courage has been hid- den in the fabric of Americana only now to be
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