Author: Nancy C. Williams
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The Privileged Life: Cotton
So what’s the big deal about cotton? If you’ve lived in the deep South, you get it. It’s KING…sort of like Elvis. And even though soybeans, rice, and other products have encroached on its territory, it’s still a pretty important crop today. More than just a source of income, though, it’s a creature comfort for…
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The Privileged Life: Mountains
“I will lift up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:1-2—A Song of Ascents In my Mississippi Delta childhood, summertime felt like living in a skillet—flat and sizzling hot. So every July when my dad and mom piled us kids in the station wagon,…
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The Privileged Life: The Cross
“And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.” Colossians…
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The Privileged Life: Honoring Mom
“Let not your heart be troubled….I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.” John 14:1a,16 When I was young growing up in Mississippi, it was a Southern tradition to wear a corsage of some kind on Mother’s Day—a red rose if your mom was living,…
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The Privileged Life: Bees
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Psalm 19:9-10 There are few things in life more wonderful than sourwood honey…unless maybe it’s blackberry honey. The raw honey produced around here has a deep amber color and…
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