Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
In the beginning
My grandma used to watch us when my mom worked and we were too young for school. Our time together was short, usually just a few hours. Still, we often had lunch with her and then she would rest in her chair and watch her stories.
I would get a big Children’s Bible out, a pencil and paper, and begin copying the symbols on each page, one after the other in long lines – just like I saw them in the book.
I couldn’t read, and I didn’t know that those symbols were letters which, when strung together in certain patterns became words. I had no idea that those words, when paired with others, became a...