Cotton Fields

These lyrics are funny, “Now when them cotton bolls get rotten, You can’t pick very much cotton, In them old cotton fields back home.” My dad’s and his family would pick a lot of cotton! They had too! That’s the way they would get money to feed their big family in the 1940’s.
Jambalaya~ a classic remake of a Hank Williams’ song

When I was a kid I would hear Cotton Fields on the radio and have fun singing along and my dad would from time to time sing Jambalaya. A couple of great songs 🙂

Today my husband and I went to a storage facility sale. We got a few odds and ends. I found a small picture in a wooden frame. I always liked the picture because it had a humble presence about it. My father-in-law has a larger copy of it. It is of an elderly man bowing his head before a simple meal of gruel and bread.
The amazing technology of the world wide web gave me answers to questions I’ve had about this pictures for years! 🙂 I found the website behind this photograph taken in 1918. The site is named “GRACE” by ENSTROM. There I found interesting details to the makings of this picture.
Love the quote by Eric Enstrom . . . “This man doesn’t have much of earthly goods, but he has more than most people because he has a thankful heart.”
I’m gonna hang our picture by the dining room table.

Here’s a story I heard on the radio program, Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah on OnePlace.com. It is also found in the book Positively Dangerous by Frank Mercadante and the Christian Classic, Foxes Book of Martyrs:
Telemachus was a monk who lived in Asia Minor about the year 400 AD. During his life time gladiatorial games were very popular in Rome.

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