Hello Faith Pals/Church Family,
Today I thought I would send you an item I had put aside to use during one of our Sunday services. Well, we don’t know when that will be, do we, so I thought I would share it with you in this email. Back in January I had started going through a couple of the boxes in our shed. Well-that lasted for a couple of days, then I stuffed most of it, unsorted, back! This article, though, I found during my early enthusiasm! It was from Life magazine, back in January, 1996. The photo is of an elderly Afro-American lady, leaning on an ironing board. The photo probably caught my eye because I am not best friends with ironing!
Giving Her All.
‘Many would say that Oseola McCarty, a retired washerwoman, is the richest person in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She had $150,000 and she gave it away- to fund scholarships for black students at the University of Southern Mississippi, where 30 years ago they wouldn’t have been admitted. “My only regret is that I didn’t have more to give,”says the tiny, 87-year-old McCarty. She left school after sixth grade to go to work. “Fifty cents for a bundle of clothes before the war,” McCarty says. “After the war, ten, twenty dollars a bundle and like that.” She never married, lived in the family home, always preferred black-and-white TV to colour, always preferred her fan to air-conditioning, and the money piled up. Now she gives others a chance she wishes she’d had: “I would have liked to have studied nursing. I like those stiff white aprons.”‘
This prayer was in an email from Presbytery late last week:
A prayer while washing your hands
God of healing and well-being,
as I wash my hands I ask you
to cleanse me of other invisible viruses of the soul:
fear, hate, pride, greed, lust, hostility,
supremacy, superiority, selfish interest,
and all constriction of the heart.
As I join billions of others in this practice,
help me feel how deeply we are all connected
and equally, infinitely loved by you.
-Brian D McLaren
Blessings, while you iron, and while you pray!
Barbara Allen
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