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“Here are six things God hates, and one more that he loathes with a passion.” ~King Solomon

12 Monday Mar 2018

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Family, King Solomon, Obedience, Passion, Proverbs 6, Wise Sayings

Here are six things God hates, and one more that he loathes with a passion:

eyes that are arrogant,
a tongue that lies,
hands that murder the innocent,
a heart that hatches evil plots,
feet that race down a wicked track,
a mouth that lies under oath,
a troublemaker in the family.

Source: Proverbs 6:16-19 (The Message)

What does God hate? We must watch out for our eyes, tongue, hands, heart, feet and mouth. These are issues of arrogance, lies, murder, evil, wickedness, and lying under oath. Got it. This is serious and we know it. Continue reading →

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A tribute to my mother (Dorothy Wilson — 1922 – 1967)

14 Sunday May 2017

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Mother’s are so special to us. Of course, my mother is no different.

Dorothy and Everett Wilson wedding photo

Dorothy and Everett Wilson wedding photo

My mother, Dorothy Mae Frey was born on December 30, 1922, in Atlanta, Georgia, the only child of Glenn Thomas Frey and Gracie M. Frey (maiden name Bingham). She married my dad, Everett Wiley Wilson,  on January 21, 1943, in her hometown of Atlanta. They had three children during their marriage. She died on March 5, 1967, in DeKalb, Georgia, at the age of 44. Way to young for all of us kids. I was 12 at the time.

My mother’s mother was Gracie M. Bingham who was born on September 21, 1901, in Atlanta, Georgia, her father, Thomas, was 24 and her mother, Addie, was 20. She died in January 1967 in Atlanta, at the age of 65. In 1910, Grace  was 8 years old and lived in Marietta, Georgia with her father, mother, brother, and 2 sisters. In 1920, Gracie was 18 years old and lived in Atlanta, Georgia with her father, mother, brother, and 2 sisters. In 1930, Gracie was 25 years old and lived in Atlanta, Georgia with her mother, brother, and sister. On the April 1, 1940 census, Gracie Frey was 38 years old and lived in Atlanta, Georgia with her daughter and mother. There is no mention of her husband Glenn. 

My mother’s grandmother was Addie Viola Entrican who was born on September 8, 1881, in Austell, Georgia. She married her first husband in 1897 in Georgia. In 1897 she married her second husband in Georgia. She died on December 28, 1969, in her hometown, at the age of 88. According the 1900 Census, Addie married Thomas in 1897. They had one child during their marriage. In 1900, she was 19 years old and lived in Powder Springs, Georgia with her husband, Thomas, and a son. By the 1910 census, In 1910, Addie was 27 years old and lived in Marietta, Georgia with her husband, Thomas, son, and 3 daughters. By 1920, Addie was 39 years old and lived in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, Thomas, son, and 3 daughters.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” ~~Abraham Lincoln

It is true I am a product of my mother’s love. She cared so much for us all. I always felt her love. I owe her so very much. I wish I could thank her in person. Some day I will. I know she believed that.

Wedding announce for Dorothy and Everett Wilson

Wedding announce for Dorothy and Everett Wilson

Her mother was Grace Frey. I don’t remember much about her. She passed away about a month before my mother.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning

When my parents wed, my dad was defending our freedom during World War II. My mom knew the importance of what he did for us.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ―Washington Irving

My mother always defended me no matter what. She could calm me down. She would sooth the hurts like no other.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” —Booker T. Washington

So who do I owe who I  am to? It is my mother. She showed me how to love. She showed me how to be strong. She showed me how to work. She showed me how to care.

Mom's love of country

Mom’s love of country

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes

My mother was a woman of hope. We would talk and she would share them with me. Mainly they were hopes for me. She wanted a “better world” and she wanted it for her children. Born in the middle of the great depression. Everyone, including her husband, off at war. Surely there was a better way. She worked hard to make sure we could have it.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” —Michael Jordan

A tribute a most amazing mother — Dawn Wilson

14 Sunday May 2017

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Angel, I have so much respect for you. You are an amazing mother and I stand in awe. Your love, sacrifice and service to your children deserves a shout out on the highest roof top.

You sacrifice so much for them every day. You constantly drop what you are doing to make sure they are taken care of. Your ever abiding thought is how to serve them and make them happy.

And … happy and successful they are. From Sarah Jo to Nate.

You think of them all the time and always want the best for them. No little or big thing is too much in your eyes.

You create so many special and fun experiences for our family. We all have so many fond memories today and will down the road.

Your patience is stunning.

Your encouragement is overwhelming.

Your generosity is superb.

Your words of wisdom are a special treasure.

Your strength is an inspiration.

I love you!

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A tribute to my dad, a defender of freedom and independence. Born on the fourth of July 1919.

04 Monday Jul 2016

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My dad, Everett Wiley Wilson, was born on Independence Day (July 4) in 1919. This is a photo of him from WWII, defending our freedom.

God bless him, and men and women like him.

When dad was born on July 4, 1919, in Austell, Georgia, his father, Wiley, was 34 and his mother, Sarah, was 30. He married Dorothy Mae Frey, my mother,  on January 21, 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia.

They had three children during their marriage.

He died on May 15, 2009, in Lilburn, Georgia, at the age of 89.

Many of us were fortunate to be raised by a responsible, moral, conservative father —  imperfect though he may have been.  He scoffed when his children cried, “that’s not fair.”  He taught us work before play, the value of money, self-respect, right and wrong, and the limits of government and the power of personal responsibility — if not in words, by his example.   I am grateful for many blessings, but a conservative father  is chief among them.

I use the word conservative with a small “c”. While he voted Republican most his life, politically he was probably a Libertarian. He listened to Neal Bortz everyday after he retired. His conservative world view did spill over into his politics. My own father never organized anyone.  He expected people to organize their own lives, and their own communities, free from the obstacle of tyrannical government preferably.

He never presumed to rule over another, nor did he expect anyone to tell him how to live his life.   He never lectured from stadiums grandiosely flanked by Greek columns, but his words resonated.  He never padded a resume, nor embellished, let alone created, his own history.

And yet, his history speaks volumes.

My father grew up with strong, Christian and Jewish, honorable men who served and defended this great nation, knew hard work (he was 10 when the Great Depression started in 1929), God-given liberty, and right and wrong.  My father grew up when Sunday was reserved for family and church; before helmets were required to walk to the mailbox; and before putting the playground bully in his place with a discreet right hook was criminal.

He knew how to change the oil in his own car, and how to farm and garden before leftists commandeered produce for social change.  He watched great men land on the moon, and even greater men returning from war.  He understood why soldiers fought those wars, and he was grateful and humbled. He would never brag about anything.

When I asked my dad how he was doing he would say “I got up this morning”. For him, hat was a good day.

He fought in World War II and didn’t like to talk about it. He grew up before MTV was around to bash Christians, and glamorize teen pregnancy, victim-hood, bad behavior, and hedonistic drunkards from the Jersey Shore.   To my knowledge, my father never dealt drugs, ate dog, nor perfectly recited the Islamic call to prayer.

He was a great man of GOD. I honor him and miss him. 

Happy anniversary to my wife Dawn!

04 Monday Jul 2016

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Anniversary, Dawn Wilson, July 4

I am a very fortunate man. On July 4, 2009 I was married to Dawn.

It was a beautiful day in paradise. It still is.

Here is an “open letter” to you on this special day of ours.

Our marriage has always been my greatest source of peace and happiness. Spending time with you is all that I want, because that’s when I feel the most contented. I love you, and I want to thank you for the many wonderful years we’ve spent together.

You are an amazing woman. You are always giving to others, thinking of them first. You are the definition of “selflessness”.

You are the one that I have always counted on and needed through the joy and sorrow, laughter and some tears. You have kept me grounded, you are indeed my rock. You have been there for me through the days, months and years and your devotion has never faltered. No matter what I have said or done you have been there.

I have grown because of you and I know that I will continue my path in life with you by my side. I used to wonder what I did to deserve you but then one day I realized that it is not a matter of deserving at all. You are a great gift and for that I am most thankful.

You care like no other person I have ever seen. Your goal in life is to serve and never to be served. You are a stupendous mother. Raising four children isn’t easy. You do it with style and grace.

You are a great friend to all. You friends are fiercely loyal. They will do anything for you because you will do anything for them.

No detail is to small for you. You always are thinking about how to make things better. And better is how they are always made. Your touch and sense of style are known far and wide.

Thanks for who you are and for what you mean to me. I love you. I will always love you.

My Bible from 1970 when I was 16. Look who gave it to me!!

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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I must admit that most of my reading these days isn’t with physical books. I am an avid on-line / Kindle kind of person. I love the convenience of that way. But I do still have physical books and my most treasured are my Bibles. Here is the oldest one I have. I was 16 at the time. I didn’t recall if I had bought it myself so I looked at the front to see if there was an inscription.

Low and behold, look at who gave it to me.

How awesome is that? Continue reading →

Dad and I with a bow tie

21 Sunday Jun 2015

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Everett Wilson (my dad) and I. I think we may have been at Aunt Gladys’ house in their front yard.

I have to to smile at the bow tie.

 

Celebrating flag day

14 Sunday Jun 2015

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Mom's love of country

Mom’s love of country

Our flag has a glorious and wonderful history. My mom loved our country. She saw my dad go off to war. She didn’t know if he would return. He did! She carried on in his absence with love for him and our country.

Bernard Cigrand had humble beginnings in Waubeka, Wisc. As a young man, he held numerous jobs to pay for his education, including selling scrap metal, and working on a steam barge before he could afford to go off to dental school. Cigrand was named a contributing editor of the Encyclopedia Americana the same year he got his dental degree. It was for the encyclopedia that he began writing about his love of the American Flag, and eventually proposed a national holiday commemorating the flag adopted by the Continental Congress on June, 14, 1777. The message took hold in his local school district, and they began hosting observances the third Sunday of June. The movement grew, but sadly Cigrand would not see his holiday made official. He died of a heart attack in 1932, and it was not until 1949 that President Harry Truman signed the legislation. This Sunday’s Flag Day remember not only the commemoration of a flag, but the man who made it so.

In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. The United States Army also celebrates the Army Birthday on this date; Congress adopted “the American continental army” after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775

via Flag Day (United States) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

My dad's flag

My dad’s flag

My dad fought to keep us safe and liberate Europe from tyranny. Fortunately he survived his experience and lived a long and productive life. When he died, his coffin was draped with the U.S. flag.

My dad loved our country. He always taught us to respect the freedoms we have and enjoy.

My father’s flag

02 Saturday May 2015

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My father (Everett Wiley Wilson) served in WWII. This is the flag that was draped on his coffin. God bless men and women like my dad.

We miss you.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don’t say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world. ~Bob Feller

 

My dad from Thanksgiving 2007

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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What a great man my dad (Everett Wiley Wilson) was. This is from Thanksgiving 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.

This was the last Thanksgiving I would get to spend with him. I am very thankful for him.

Love the smile.

Family is the most vital relationship and the one under the most pressure and attack

17 Monday Nov 2014

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New Life

New Life

“Life is Relationships” is one of Christian Training Center International’s (CTCI) ministry values and their vision for family. CTCI “INNvision”s united families by strengthening and restoring family relationships in the INNvision program. Family is the most vital relationship and the one under the most pressure and attack. Every session, families from around the world are transformed, healed, and renewed. Barriers to forgiveness, personal growth, and hope are overcome in a supportive and intimate environment.

This video gives personal stories of the success God is bringing to families.

This is INNvision.

 

My dad fought for my liberty

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Dick Cheney, Everett Wiley Wilson, Fathers, Home, Parenting, Remembrance Day, United States, Veterans Day, World War II

I learned so much from my Dad. He was in the artillery in WWII. What an amazing man.

He fought for my liberty. He paid a price for his service but he was proud he served. He knew the very real danger and disaster that would occur if he didn’t.

My dad made a difference in the world.

“This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”  Elmer Davis 

“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.” Dick Cheney

MOM — Director of Operations — 24/7

11 Sunday May 2014

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Great video. Every mom should watch it.

This is the best.

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