Memorial
Day, Monday, May 25, 2026
DECORATION
DAY
Rev
21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away.
We called it Decoration Day
because Tennessee people, wherever they had roamed, came home to place pretty
flowers on the family graves. It was a time for reunion with others who had come
home.
Our loved ones were all buried in
the small cemetery adjoining the Pine Hill Church, probably Baptist with a
Pentecostal flavor. It was there that we gathered to forget trespasses and to remember
good things. The church provided “all day singing” and “dinner on the ground.”
Our family had migrated to Ohio,
where there was work for daddy. We took highway 27 south through Kentucky. We
stopped somewhere in the mountains at a log cabin restaurant. I remember that
there was a Koi pond out front which fascinated me and my siblings. They were
the biggest goldfish we had ever seen. Inside was a trinket shop with hillbilly
stuff. There was a coonskin hat which we did not buy but wanted to. We ate …
something.
Lord,
let me sit a spell and forget trespasses and remember good things. AMEN
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