I am eternally grateful for the spiritual heritage and upbringing I received from my family. Passed down to me and to my siblings was the truth about Jesus Christ, and a solid faith in His Word. My parents took seriously the biblical admonition from Deuteronomy 11:19: “You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
But spiritual precepts are not all that my family passed down to us. Oral history is a part of the fabric of our family. The following is another excerpt from a book I am presently penning about my late father, Coolidge Sims. His last days in an assisted living center gave me a brief season to hear him again rehearse the stories of his childhood that I had heard all of my life. One evening in June of 2012, I joined Dad for supper in the dining hall of his final residence, The Oaks.
Our conversation that memorable evening includes his version of one of my favorite family stories. Enjoy!
