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ACROSS THE RIVER
ENJOYING COLIN’S BOOK: I waited patiently to receive one of Colin Gravois’s new book entitled “The Company I Kept.” The pages are full of poignant stories of people Colin has known and loved. Among those is an autobiographical short by JuJu Child, a well-known blues singer and guitarist. Much like Colin, Child goes back and forth to Paris from New Orleans and rural Mississippi. I met JuJu on an Amtrak train ride from Memphis to New Orleans early one Sunday morning. My friend and I shared a dining car table with him and another gentleman from New Orleans who were on their way home after attending a wedding. In our introductions we said we were from St. James Parish. When I said I lived in Vacherie, JuJu said he had been there to visit Colin Gravois and had also visited him in Paris. The four of us had a very delightful conversation and shared stories about growing up in rural areas. One never knows who they might meet and where.
Across the River
there are tornado warnings creeping across the bottom of my TV screen with additional cautions for the Lutcher area. I prayed for all of us and wished that I still had a “holy candle” like the ones my grandmother always lit when the weather was bad like this.
Power of Praise
One of the many attributes of God is that He is omnipotent, or all-powerful. “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.” (Jeremiah 32:17) The evidence of God’s omnipotence is displayed in His creation: the world, the animal kingdom and humanity, myriads of stars, the sun and moon, the seas—all facets of His glorious artistry and might.