Welcome to Monday’s Music Moves Me on Sundays! Let me start by saying thanks to each of you for the warm wishes on our 45th wedding anniversary as well for the birthday wishes sent to my sister last week. This week’s theme is dad for a Father’s Day Tribute.
My daddy didn’t have much of a father figure in his life. His mother raised him and four siblings pretty much on her own. Daddy was born in 1938. He got as far as the 6th grade in school. Living in rural West Virginia down a holler as the old timers would say, kids had to walk a long way to get to school. I imagine education wasn’t top priority to those poor folks in those days. What Daddy lacked in book knowledge, he made up in spades with common sense. Mom helped him with his reading after they got married (1960). The only job I remember Daddy having was working in the coal mines which left him disabled with Black Lung in the mid 70s. When I was a kid, he loved going hunting. I remember he’d bring home squirrels and I helped him to skin them a few times. After I married, Daddy’s mining disability suit settled. My folks built their dream home on the land they bought from my great-grandparents years prior in southwestern Virginia. It was in those years that followed that I recall him taking up deer hunting. In my parents’ home there’s a big ole buck’s head mounted above the fireplace that Daddy so proudly put on display. He tried his best to get me to eat Bambi but I didn’t want to have anything to do with it. lol The thing that warms my heart the most about my daddy is his walk with God. He loved the Lord and shared with others God’s word. For a man with little education, he could recite scripture like no other. He did more than just share one on one, he was called to preach. Daddy was an old time preacher man. He spoke the words placed on his heart by the Almighty. I can’t think of any better way to pay tribute to my daddy than to share the Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton duet, “Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man”.
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Have a boogietastic week, dear friends, and before I forget Marie wanted to tell y’all “Hello!” She’s still not feeling quite herself, so please say a prayer for her. Happy Father’s Day to all the special Dads!
