Dolly Parton is dead, and the church never knew what to do with her.
Half my feed is posting rhinestones today. The other half never trusted her, because she would not wear the uniform.
She never preached a sermon.
She just did the works.
One man. Fifty-eight years. In an industry that eats marriages. No scandal reel, no reality show, no trading up. Just Carl, and a promise kept until death did them part.
She could have built towers in Nashville. Instead she built in the mountains she came from, so the people she came from could work.
Two hundred million books. Given away to children, free, no strings, while the rest of us argued about what to read.
A million dollars for a vaccine in the middle of a plague, and she called it what it was: helping.
She was a feminist who never used the word, a superstar who never left home, and a believer who never made you watch her pray.
"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:18.
We spent years asking whether she was one of ours.
She never asked whether we were one of hers. She was too busy feeding children.
I do not know her heart. That was never my job. I know her works, because the whole county she came from lives on them.
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:20.
You want to honor her today? Put down the tribute post. Put a book in a kid's hands. Stay married. Do the works.
That was the whole sermon. She just never said it out loud.
As I pick her for park, I drop her for house make she settle in because I don late for evening ball. I give her my ATM in case she wan buy anything cook before I come back from field.
Naso i see ₦11k debit, call her immediately: “Wetin you buy now now?” She say, “I fill gas 8kg.”
You fill 8kg as how baby? Since I buy that cylinder, I never fill 8kg for my life. Wetin we wan dey cook? Gas wey Hilda Baci take cook jollof that year no reach 8kg now😭.
Na that moment I know say i no fit marry
anytime soon
I found a prayer in Micah 7:7 this morning. Lord, concerning the things in my life that I cannot fix, force, or figure out, teach me to stay with You until I see what You will do. When everything around me gives me reasons to give up, keep my heart settled enough to wait for You to make things right. Let me not run ahead of You because I am tired of waiting, or take matters into my own hands because I cannot see how You will work it out. Give me the grace to say, “I will wait for the God of my salvation,” even when the waiting is uncomfortable. Let me trust that You hear me, even when the answer has not yet come. And when You finally turn this thing around, let me remember that You were worth waiting for.
Prayer for the words we speak: "God, You are worthy of all my praise and I want my words to be pleasing to You. Help me to control my tongue-not to speak words that wound the spirit, but words that bring peace and healing and hope. Give me words to speak to others that will bless their lives. And help me to grow in my own personal knowledge of Your Word so that I can speak the truth boldly over every situation that arises in my life. Thank You, Lord, for the gift of Your Word. I pray that it will be on my lips today and every day. Amen."
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