biblebuffjournal99 - Walking by Faith - I keep Climbing - WHEN THE RAIN FALLS

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

WHEN THE RAIN FALLS

WHEN THE RAIN FALLS TODAY

WE HAVE THE RECORD OF THE TIME WHEN THE WHOLE EARTH WAS FLOODED IN THE BIBLE - GOD'S HOLY WORD.   DID YOU KNOW ? THAT NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE OR NATION YOU LOOK INTO, THERE IS SOME RECORD OF A FASHION OF THIS FLOOD.  

             MANY NATIONS DO REMEMBER THAT TIME.

              LET US THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT.

   HOW MUCH WAS THERE TO PROVE THAT NAPOLEON BONAPARTE FELL IN THE BATTLE?   ONLY A SMALL SCRAP OF PAPER.    BUT IT WAS ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE WORLD AT THAT TIME.

               LET US ALSO THINK ABOUT NOAH.  HIS FATHER WAS LAMECH AND HIS GRANDFATHER WAS METHUSELAH.   

               IT IS RECORDED THAT ENOCH WAS THE FATHER OF METHUSELAH.    IN THE HEBREW "METHU" =  DEATH 

OF HIM,  AND "SELAH"  = THINK ABOUT IT.   

               SO - WHEN HIS NAME WAS GIVEN, HIS FATHER ENOCH WAS TELLING WHO EVER HEARD THE NAME - WHEN HE DIES, THINK ABOUT IT.     SELAH MEANT - REST -  TO PAUSE, STOP, THINK ON IT.   

                THE RAINS WILL NEVER EVER FLOOD AGAIN LIKE IT DID IN THAT TIME.   HOWEVER, THAT DOES NOT RULE OUT SMALL FLOODS AND CATASTROPHES.   

                 IF YOU ARE CURIOUS - LOOK INTO THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND READ THE FIRST 9 CHAPTERS.  IT COVERS FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE FLOOD, WHEN NOAH AND HIS FAMILY FOUND A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN THE ONE THEY HAD BEFORE THE FLOOD.

                 

 

                   IT WAS 120 YEARS IN THE MAKING - THIS ARK - AND THEN WHEN THE RAINS CAME - IT WAS A FULL YEAR AFTER NOAH ENTERED THE ARK WITH HIS FAMILY THAT THE GROUND WAS DRY ENOUGH FOR THEM TO LEAVE.   

                    YOU ASK  "HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?"

                    "WHAT EVIDENCE DO WE HAVE OF THIS?"

I GIVE YOU A LINK TO KEN HAM'S ANSWERS IN GENESIS.

DO SEARCH IT OUT.    

           ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT THIS IS MY 

           VIEW: 

       THE BIBLE IS OUR LETTER FROM GOD.

        IT NEVER TRIES TO PROVE HE EXISTS.

        IT ASSUMES THAT HE IS, AND THAT HE WAS, AND THAT HE ALWAYS WILL BE.

       THE BIBLE PRESENTS WHO GOD IS IN RELATION TO YOU AND ME - MANKIND - AND WHAT HE DID TO GIVE US THE RIGHT TO BECOME HIS CHILDREN.

    

             
INSTITUTE OF CREATION RESEARCH

       
ANSWERS IN GENESIS

biblebuffjournal99 - HOW ABOUT YOUR HEART - HOW TO KNOW GOD

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING HOW ABOUT YOUR HEART

Your heart is very important.

      Not just the heart that pumps your blood, but the heart the Bible speaks about.  You see,  Scripture speaks of the heart as the center of the emotions, the intellect, and the will.   God judged the world in Noah’s day because “every imagination of the thoughts of his [man’s] heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6.5.

        Jeremiah 17.9 tells us that “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it?”   Hebrews 4.12 gives us the answer “For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

       God knows your heart, and God knows my heart.       Because our hearts were corrupted with sin through Adam, our relationship with God was ended.   We became his enemies (Romans 8.6 – 7).  Romans 5.8  “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”  Romans 6.23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”   Death is the legitimate result of sin, and we deserve no more.

         For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”  Jesus declared to Nicodemus in chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, that “as the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.”  John 3.14….He knew why He had come, and He knew what His Work was, to give His life a ransom for many, once for all.   Acts 8.36,37 tell us “And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See here is water: what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest; and he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”   

        Paul writes in the letter to the church at Rome,  [Romans 10: 9,10]  That if thou wilt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” 

          How about your heart?

   

           Is it right with God?   Have you believed on,

 put your faith

 and trust in Christ 

for His free gift of salvation? 

           

            John 1.12 – 14. “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

        

                GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW

1.YOU NEED TO BE SAVED.

    Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  John 3.3 

2. YOU CANNOT SAVE YOURSELF.

     There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.    Proverbs 14.12

3. JESUS HAS ALREADY PROVIDED THE WAY.

        Who His own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree”   1 Peter 2.24 

4. BY FAITH ACCEPT HIM TODAY.

“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be save, and thy house.”   Acts 16.31

5.  ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AND INVITE HIM INTO YOUR LIFE TODAY.   ACCEPT CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR TODAY.

“For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.”  Romans 10.10

“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”  2 Cor. 6.2   

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biblebuffjournal99 - LIVING TODAY AND TOMORROW - LEISURE by W H Cash Jr 1949

By Wm. Henry Cash, Jr.  1927 - 2012 

LIVING TODAY AND TOMORROW - LEISURE 

Written in 1949 

All American communities have a highly developed social life.      Social life is important to everyone, but too many activities are as harmful as not enough.

               

We must determine what type of clubs or groups will give us the most satisfaction and confine our interest to them.

      Recreation is a common element in community life.

Movies [Videos] can be a very force for good or evil, only desultory attempts are made at regulation or supervision.

                                         We must guard against such places of 

                                         entertainment, as pool halls, cocktail bars,

                                         parties which have no rules they lead

                                         to difficulties.

                             Henry's Own Thoughts on Leisure

      Churches should provide the right type 

      of recreation for the children and young people.

                    If we are busy for the Lord, we will not have time to do things that 

are questionable.

We should choose the type of recreation

that helps us both in body and mind.

Reading good books and magazines

is a good way to spending one's leisure.

One should spend part of his leisure time 

just resting and relaxing.  

WHEN HENRY WAS WITH US, HE OFTEN
WAS FOND OF REPEATING THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO FIND TIME TO RELAX AND TO BE ABLE TO SLOW DOWN.
            
                   
WHEN CONSIDERING ACTIVITIES AND LEISURE
IT IS IMPORTANT TO PLAN TIME FOR THE FAMILY
TO BE TOGETHER.  

A PERSON NEEDS TO 

BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET SO BUSY YOU

DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR YOUR FAMILY 

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biblebuffjournal99 - LIVING TODAY AND TOMORROW - College and Finances by W H Cash Jr 1949

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Living Today and Tomorrow 

Finances 

by Wm. H. Cash, Jr. 1949 

1927 - 2002  

The progress many students make in college is affected

in some way or other 

by the problem of finances.

--- There are two types of college loans
Short Term, and Long Term.

      It is unwise for college students

to depend upon loans for 

all his college education.

The part-time employer should be fair

to the student as as the student being

fair to the employer.

It is an established fact that in vocational guidance, that occupational interest persiststhroughout life.    Since most social workers arewomen, men have many opportunities for advancement to executive positions.

[Somewhat outdated - but at the time, true]

Health services are the most needed in our nation.

The ministry on the whole is a very low paid profession, how there is considerable stratification, similar to teaching. More than one third of workers in the U S A
                            are unskilled.  [This statistic may be outdated.]

Young people should never be blindly 

guided by their parents in choosing a

vocation.

 One danger many young people have

is that of drifting, with nothing in view 

that he / she is preparing for.

1. The college student should major in the subject that
2. will help him in his future vocation.

HENRY'S THOUGHTS ON THE FACTS

One should depend on God for his needs.

We must not become lazy, for God

 has given us our physical 

structure, our abilities, and our talents 

to be used for His glory.

A young person should get 

the highest preparation before he can

expect to have the highest opportunities 

for advancement.   

OUR STORY CAME TOGETHER IN 1960

    

This was my dear husband

 just after we got married in 1960. 

       He was 32, almost 33, and we had written for a year and a half.  We met when he decided to come through Sacramento CA as he went down to meetings and family in San Diego CA.   A month later, he proposed to me by mail.   I accepted, and we were married in Sacto. CA at the Central Baptist Church.     It lasted until he passed on to glory in June of 2012.   

THIS IS THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, CRESCENT OR., THE FIRST CHURCH HENRY PASTORED, FROM 1953 - 1962

How I cherish the memories.   When I see Christ, I will be able to say gladly, "By God's Grace, I am here"  

          Henry graduated from Linda Vista Baptist Bible College & Seminary on May 12, 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and a Bachelor of Theology degree.   On May 18, 1953, he received a degree in Bachelor of Divinity, and a Master of Theology degree. How privileged I am to say that though I did not know before 1959, it was meant to be that we would marry.  

         How he believed and prayed and dreamed is reflected in this photo of him in 1952.  

  He was born 1927 while I was born six years later, in 1933.   All the time I was growing up, God gave me "impressions" of someone SURELY going to be my husband one day.   I did not always pay attention.   I did come to a certainty that there WAS someone out there - but I did not always act appropriately.    How thankful I am that God is Sovereign, and that He knows and cares, and that this man was praying for a wife, and believe me, I needed prayer.   

             My determination did not always stay with me, and I would get side-tracked from what God wanted me to do.   My self-will got in the way.   How it worked out is a testimony to God's grace in my life.

This was my photo at 12 years of age.   

Born in 1933, it was 1945 here.   

Very little upbringing in any faith, I remember as a little girl my mother saying to me,"When you grow up, and find God and believe in Him, I want you to tell me about Him, and I will believe too."

Somehow, Mother thought that because I was Jewish from my Daddy's side, that I would have "an in" with God.   It was not so, but it did give me A PURPOSE in my life.  I found myself looking for what was true, right, good, and found myself reasoning at a young age, about who God was, is, and should be in my life.

It was in the 5th grade, at age 11, that a gentleman came to my grade school class and asked permission to hand out New Testaments.  The teacher said yes, and I got mine.   In it was written II Timothy 2.15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."  

There were other verses given - it was a Gideon Bible, and very good for me.  I looked up all the verses, and gave my life and heart to Jesus as my Lord and Savior.   I was not attending church at that time.   In that year, I remember going to Girl Scouts and learning the ten commandments.   The Girl Scout promise was 

"to do my duty to God and my country," among other things, so my heart was tenderized to read God's Word. 

You must understand that I am a redhead, and that

in my life, I was "Italian, somewhat but not Jewish" 

and very English on my Mom's side.   

My mother's folks were from ingrained YANKEE NEW ENGLAND folk.  

 Their forefathers were independent, many of them Baptist, and inclined to think for themselves.   They came over on the Mayflower to escape persecution, and often were maligned or misunderstood because they were so independent, and did not "just go to church" perse.   Hardworkers, and inclined to be educated generally, they thought for themselves.

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MY GRANDFATHER'S FATHER - GEORGE EDGAR CARPENTER

WORKING ON WOOD 

AS A FARMER, EVERYTHING THEY DID AND PRODUCED 

WAS TRADED FOR OTHER GOODS IN THE AREA.

 MY GRANDFATHER (FORREST RAYMOND CARPENTER) HAD 

STRONG DISSENTERS IN HIS FAMILY.  THIS IS HIS GRANDFATHER, 

GEORGE ALBERT CARPENTER.

THIS WAS MY GRANDMOTHER'S MOTHER AS A YOUNG WOMAN, 

VIDA MAY INGALLS.  THIS MAY HAVE BEEN THE WEDDING DRESS

TO LUTHER WILBUR BREWER OF EASTHAM, MA.  

LUTHER WAS A TANNER, WORKING WITH LEATHER TO MAKE

GEAR FOR HORSES AND CARRIAGES.

On my father's side, I knew little.  

All I knew at the time was that his Mother was Jewish, of New York state, and that his father Orestes Donato was Italian, from Northern Italy.   My father had been raised by his Aunt Sally, not his mother.   His father returned to Italy with two brothers.   I know now that he remarried, and that I have relatives in the U S A.  I know now, that my father's father - Orestes Donato, was born in Tunisia, Africa while his father - my great grandfather Major Guiseppe Donato was a Major in the Italian Army while serving under the Italian King.

His wife, Nunia, was born in Russia.    There was no evidence of any religious affiliation - so I assume that they were Jews that came here hoping for a better life.   

This was my Dad in 1940.   I was 7 years of age at that time, and thought my father was very handsome.   He had been boarded out "as soon as he was old enough" by Aunt Sally who did what she thought was "proper" and then sent him to the New York Episcopal School of Music - where he learned to sing tenor, read music and to participate in the Episcopal church there where the school was situated.    Aunt Sally was of a "different" way of life for me.  She told palm readings to the rich and famous in order to make a living.  She lived in No Falmouth MA (Cape Cod) in the Summer and in the winter, lived in Florida.    I saw her only about three times in my life, and those were brief.   My biggest memory of the great grandmother is that she was a HUGE woman, who looked much like Golda Meier.   Strong features,  very intelligent, and quite in charge of her family.   My family was never able to discover why my Dad's mother was not raising him.   I did later on in my life discover he was born at the Ipswich NY Women's Reformatory.  

       My sister asked me, Why would that have been? where he was born?   I told her what I knew.   That in our country a law had been passed around 1884 and was in effect until about 1904 - which declared "a law establishing reformatories and villages" in which people who were homeless, on the street, and without work would be put in the villages, and anyone who was judged "immoral or indigent" was placed in a reformatory.   If a woman got pregnant, unmarried, or if married and the husband was out of work, then she would be considered as "a prostitute" so it is likely my grand-father was out of work, and not able to support her.  Even if the child was his, he could stop authorities from doing this.   They had the power to put anyone where they wanted.    I understand that in "these villages" that were created it was like a nightmare of travesties where the care was just "watching over cattle" not people.  

Many tried to commit suicide the conditions were so bad. 

Well, such as it was, the law was repealed before I was born. I understand that my Great grandmother Nunzia Donato was living up until 1975.   I would have liked to have known her.

My mother and father, the day after I was born, 

on June 9, 1933. 

       On my mother's side, I am related to the Carpenters, Cooks, Browns, and Greens who many of them were children of those that came over on the Mayflower in 1620. 

My Mother at age 17 had me, in 1933.    Strange, but Henry's mother was only 17 when she had him as her first child of nine. Anna Maude Sandine married Wm. Henry Cash, and in 1927 Henry was born in Rison Arkansas.  

     From what I understand, on Henry's Mother's side, she was a full blooded Swede, named Anna Maude Sandine.

Henry's father was named after a famous preacher Uncle Wm. Henry Cash who before the Civil War was a plantation owner, but after the Civil War he became an Itinerant Circuit Preacher and was beloved by all. 
       
  He was the father of Reuben who then had Ray and Roy Cash.   Roy Cash was Johnny Cash the singer's father, while Ray Cash was Henry's grandfather's father.  So Henry's grandfather Garret Gibson Cash was a first cousin to Johnny Cash's father.   

Rev. Wm. Henry Cash  1852 - 1912

Apr 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865 were the Civil War years.

I will put a link to the obituary of this dear man.   Although my father in law did not become a preacher, my husband did.  How grateful I am for believing folks in our families that prayed over the years.  

This was Henry's birth certificate.

I believe that the "daylight standard time" was

                                                             

a conflict that day, and the doctor who delivered Henry chose to use May 26, not May 25th.   I understand another friend of mine to have had her Mother choose the 26th instead of 25th but she too celebrates two days of "birth" ...

   

Here is Wm. Henry Cash (Jr.) at age 14 with

his grandmother Lenora Lee (Akins) Cash

Her birthday was on the 25th.   

Later on in this blog I will list more accurate dates for those in my family
 who wish to take note of them.   

This is the first entry of my life and Henry's.  I look forward to sharing it as I go along.    

There is much to discover online from GENEOLOGY WEBSITES.    LATER I SHALL RESEARCH THE FAMILIES ONLINE AND PERHAPS HAVE A BIT MORE TO GO ON.

                                               

I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU

Sunday, January 19, 2014

re-posted on  SEPT 4,2017  

    JOHN 14.1 - 3  LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.  IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS. 

     IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU.  I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO.

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        When Jesus told this to the Disciples, He knew that they needed comforting.   He took this time to explain that His relationship to them was like a Bridegroom leaving for His Father's House to prepare a place for His Bride.
        You and I who believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior have entered into that relationship.  Christ is the Bridegroom of the Church - the Called Out Ones - and we are the Bride, readying ourselves for His Soon Coming, and occupying our time doing His Will.
       He promised us that He is coming.    Let us look for Him.   We are to fill our days with the quiet ever constancy of a loving heart of a Bride for Her Bridegroom.    We are to live knowing His Return is Certain, and it is Soon.
      My love for Jesus grows day by day.   He who said "I AM" is YHWH, or, Yahweh, the One WHO IS.   Let us rejoice that we have His dear Spirit to guide and direct us as we Look for His Soon Return.  

REMEMBER 

WHEN HE COMES TO TAKE US HOME 

THERE WILL BE THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET

AND IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 

WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET HIM

AND THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ON BEFORE US

AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED 

I THESS CHAPTER 4. 13 - 18  

WE WILL BE WITH HIM IN REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR, JOHN IS CAUGHT UP
INTO HEAVEN, AND FROM THAT VIEWPOINT
SEES WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT

7 YEARS OF TRIBULATION

A TIME OF JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH

AND MILLIONS WILL BE SAVED BY 

THE SAME GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 

AS SAVED ME

WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS 

THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, 

GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD.

I John 4.15   

 We love Him, because He first loved us. I John 4.19

           John the Baptist said of Jesus, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."  John chapter 3.36  

           

In a moment He will come

 WILL YOU BE READY?

 BY FAITH IN JESUS, THE MESSIAH, YOU CAN BELIEVE RIGHT NOW.    HE WILL CLEANSE YOUR HEART WHEN YOU TURN TO HIM FOR WASHING BY THE BLOOD HE SHED ON THE CROSS.  ONCE FOR ALL HE PAID THE PRICE OF OUR REDEMPTION.

             I AM RESOLVED NO LONGER TO LINGER CHARMED BY THE WORLD'S DELIGHT, THINGS THAT ARE HIGHER, THINGS THAT ARE NOBLER, THESE HAVE ALLURED MY SIGHT.   I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE; JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.  

              I AM RESOLVED TO GO TO THE SAVIOR, LEAVING MY SIN AND STRIFE, HE IS THE TRUE ONE, HE IS THE JUST ONE - HE HATH THE WORDS OF LIFE.  I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE, JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.

              I AM RESOLVED TO FOLLOW THE SAVIOR, FAITHFUL AND TRUE EACH DAY, HEED WHAT HE SAYETH, DO WHAT HE WILLETH, HE IS THE LIVING WAY.  

                 I AM RESOLVED TO ENTER THE KINGDOM, LEAVING THE PATHS OF SIN, FRIENDS MAY OPPOSE ME, FOES MAY BESET ME, STILL WILL I ENTER IN.

                    I AM RESOLVED, AND WHO ? WILL GO WITH ME ?  COME, FRIENDS, WITHOUT DELAY....TAUGHT BY THE BIBLE, LED BY THE SPIRIT, WE'LL WALK THE HEAVENLY WAY. 

                          I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE, JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.

              

 JUST AS GOD TOLD THE HEBREWS TO PUT THE BLOOD ON THE LINTEL AND THE DOOR POSTS WHICH MADE THE CROSS OF BLOOD - SO THAT THE DEATH ANGEL "PASSED OVER" THEIR FIRST BORN, SO TOO, WE MUST LET THE BLOOD OF JESUS WASH AWAY OUR SIN.   

                

        GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.    ROMANS 5.8 

MY STORY PART ONE GOD'S PLAN BEHIND IT ALL

N 1941 HENRY WAS 14 YEARS OLD, AND I WAS ONLY 8

HERE IS WM. HENRY CASH, JR WITH HIS 

GRANDMOTHER 

THEY CELEBRATED THE SAME BIRTHDAY

ALTHOUGH

BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE

IN THE TIME

HE WAS RECORDED AS 

BEING BORN ON MAY 26TH, 1927

SO ALL OUR MARRIED LIFE

WE CELEBRATED TWO DAYS 

FOR HIS BIRTHDAY.

AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN

HENRY CAME TO KNOW CHRIST AS HIS 

LORD AND SAVIOR.

HIS GRANDMOTHER ENCOURAGED HIM IN HIS 

CHRISTIAN LIFE.

HE DETERMINED THAT GOD WAS CALLING HIM

TO PREACH, AND HE BEGAN BY GIVING HIS FAMILY

OF SIBLINGS HIS FIRST SERMON.

Here are Margie and Helen with two cousins

Margie was the same as me.   When I was 8 she was 8.

She heard Henry give his first sermon.   

The remarkable part of this is that Henry stuttered 

quite badly, he thought.   How he could become 

a Preacher with that difficulty he never 

questioned.

This was Henry with his Mom and Dad with 

siblings in 1936.    Margie was only 3.

I was in Massachusetts, only 3.   

I believe God planned right 

from the start to put us 

together.

COME JOURNEY WITH ME

AND DISCOVER HOW

GOD DID THAT !  

MY SISTER DIANE WAS BORN ON DEC 27TH 1941  

AND I WAS BUSY HELPING MOTHER.

YET SOMEWHERE IN MY MIND

I SAW BLOND THIN BABIES HAPPY AND 

PLAYING TOGETHER - 

AND I FELT "DRAWN" TO THE BOY I SAW 

IN MY THOUGHTS.

        I KNOW NOW THAT BECAUSE HIS  MOTHER (ANNA MAUDE CASH) WAS 

        A FULL BLOODED SWEDE, 

       ALL OF HENRY'S FAMILY WERE BLONDES AS BABIES, BUT THEIR

       HAIR GREW DARK AS THEY GREW. 

HENRY'S HAIR TURNED BLACK LATER ON,

AND IT WAS STILL BLACK WHEN THE LORD TOOK HIM HOME.

take another look at this photo.

Dad and Mom Cash with 7 little ones, Henry the oldest in 1936.     

         Dad Cash, (Wm. Henry Cash) was a farmer, born in Arkansas, and Anna Maude (Sandine) who married him at age 16, had Henry at age 17.   Dad moved to Imperial Valley in California when Henry was 2 years old.    By the time they got to New Mexico - his little brother John was born.  And there they stay about a year, and then headed on to California.    They had brought with them, Grandmother and Grandfather Cash (Garrett Gibson Cash and his wife), because they could not bear to have this little boy far away from them.  So leaving "the dust bowl" and finding hope in the future in California, they came too.   

      Calvin Terry his cousin is the same age as what Henry would have been, and he remembers him as a little boy.  They both became Pastors, preaching God's Word, and yet one was living in Arkansas, and the other in Cal, Or and later WA 

       

           In 1937 my little brother Harry whom we called Skipper was growing up,

   and I was busy with Skip and now with Diane.

About the time that I was 8  we lived in Boston MA in rentals of the famous BROWNSTONE TENEMENTS which at one time had many folk very well off living in them.  However, times had changed, and they were now RENTALS and quite shabby, but still handsome with pine knot staircases and fancy lights.

I loved to discover W H O was living next to me.  

Mother trusted me to come back if I had any trouble, and 

it seemed as if I lived a CHARMED LIFE.  

Funny, I just did not even imagine harm would come

if I explored.  

So I was very inquisitive.

People were kind.

Very friendly.

God was giving a picture to me of people of all walks of life, many unhappy, and some happy, many who did not work, and others who could not work. Life was not easy, but everyone had hope.  They did what they could.  I could see that I needed A PURPOSE IN IT ALL.   

I saw the hardships.

I knew life was not easy.

I wondered "Who God Was, and Was He Really Interested in me?" 

On my next post I will speak a little on that subject.  

When I was in First Grade in 1940, I remember there 

was a picture of children in Germany posted on the wall 

at school.  I looked at the picture, and said "something's wrong. 

They do not look happy.   There is a sadness in their face."  

What I did not know was that these children were marked for death camps.    No one was talking about that at all.

I somehow knew God had put me where I was

so that I could be safe.   And I kept seeing

pictures in my mind of a little boy who 

could not say "sister"  trying to preach to 

his brothers and sisters. 

BLESS THE LORD O MY SOUL

AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME

BLESS HIS HOLY NAME.

Ps. 103.1