He went through a LOT but just handled it better for some reason. YHVH was preparing him to meet Me!! Beauty and the Beast but I was the beast, now we’re just beautiful creations together!

I am married to the best man on the planet. He was in such pain for our circumstances, his yearning for a yard, a piece of land where he can be as the Maker and get his hands down in the dirt. One cannot imagine what living in a concrete city can do to the spirit of a man who longs for dirt and roots in the ground, who yearns for the food of Yah and how it blesses me so!

He is a hard worker. A good provider, He has the heart of David. He is seeking YHWH with all his heart. He is honest in everything. He is totally loyal. He is fun to be around. He loves travel & adventure. He takes good care of me emotionally. He knows when to pamper. He doesn’t just love me, he Adores me and that to me is more than anything I could ever imagine. He is as close to the “perfect man” as I have ever known.

All this to say, before deliverance, Gerald was the reason I could take a breath at all. Now, we breathe life into each other with Kelsey through building up. Everything is great, our marriage is good and stronger than it’s ever been.

I am from far and distant shores of giant oceans, balmy winds, and hot summer nights, from Little Women, Charlottes Web, Hans Christen Andersen, and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe story books and The Blue Angels Aerobatic Team practicing overhead and the sonic booms caused by the Military planes flying past.

I am from the mountains higher up than my head can see from below, winding roads and car sickness filled weekend travels never knowing when or where we would end up.

From strict military housing, spic and span walls and floors, quarter bounce test on the beds after being made and sliding down the hallways on freshly waxed floors knowing all full well my mom was loving us having a good time.

I am from the tomato fields as far as one can see, watermelon picked fresh and eaten for after dinner dessert and grapes overhead growing complete with snakes sneering from above, the sassafras plants that my mom made us tea from and sugar cane we sucked straight from the stalks.  Rotten tomato fights in the fields across the road.

I am from moma’s banana pudding, fruit cakes being made and stored from October until Christmas, my daddy’s (whom everyone knew as “Blackie”) fish fry with the Statler Bros., The Oak Ridge Boys, and The Imperials all throughout the summers passed. I’m from Revivals that lasted not just three days, or a week, but for two full weeks; and when someone got saved there was a big celebration!

I’m from hand-sewn clothing well into my teens, b.arbie doll clothes my mother made, marching majorettes from one parade to another, ironing stiff Marine Corps uniforms and the wonderful smell of starch as it touches the hot iron.

I’m from Homer Lee King, Marion Wilson King and William Alan Poole, Phoebe Poole, and Viola A Poole.

I am from the a line of women who can do anything when they set their minds to it and men who fought in Wars and fought fires to serve their country and protect their families and family time that was truly QUALITY time!

From the Cherokee nation and gypsies traveling the country and bootleggers making moonshine to help make ends meet.

I am from the Southern Baptist community and remember most Riverside Baptist Church where I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour when I was 14 years old. Where the baptistry was below the preacher’s pulpit and The Lord’s Supper was like the Black Friday sale at Wal.mart. Where it seemed like every Sunday there was a good enough reason to have ”Dinner on the grounds” and the food was phenomenal!

I am from Beaufort, SC; Greenville, SC; and somewhere in Tennessee where the mountains meet the sky and the Cherokee Indians chant their prayers. I’m from homemade peach ice cream and fried chicken with gravy and biscuits.

From my grandmother’s beaded necklaces and my mother’s button jar; I’m sown from the stitches in time and the flicker of the many flames in my mother and father’s hearts.  I’ve been touched with God’s mighty hand like a piece of clay beneath the potter’s wheel to become,

Where I’m From.

October 10, 2007

I’d like to be a candle,
that makes some corner bright.
I will not ask to be the moon,
that brightens all the night.

I might just be a flower,
and not a mighty tree.
Even one small blossom,
can be beautiful to see.

So, if there’s just one someone,
who I can help to bless.
I’ll be content with little ways,
of spreading happiness.

Nancy King~1989