Make America Great

We explode, slam the door, break the dishes, stab right and left with the sword, the tongue. Tell how poorly we slept, how badly we feel and call it our nerves. But so often it is for the lack of inward harmony. Those torn with inward strife are hard to live with. Rev, Whitford Frank Walters, known to me as Grandpa Whit, in a sermon published in the 1920s.

Grandpa Whit wrote with a flair and a wit that is as relevant today as it was in the early 1900s. In one message, Grandpa draws upon the text of Mark 5:19 urging us to tell our stories and then offers how to make the story a "great" one. "Some think that religion has more weight than wings, that its best benefits are rather trifles; but in these seeming trifles are the great things – priceless, supreme things."

Grandpa believed we are at our best when something masters us.

It is not what he possesses, but what possesses the man. We need a Master. Put your hand in God's and he will change your discord into winsome music.

In Grandpa Whit's sermon "Tell Your Story," he drives home the message that if we are to make America great again, we have to put our hand in God's. He ends this sermon with what appears to be a poem. Did Grandpa write it? I can't tell. There is no author attributed to the poem and none found online. I don't think that matters as much as the message.

"My care is now for the souls of men. I have lost my life to find it again; ever since that day, in a quiet place, I met my master face to face."

I plan to publish excerpts from Grandpa's work on my blog. If you want to read something from a particular book of the Bible or from Grandpa's time working for the YMCA, let me know; liza,[email protected].  

Grandpa's work is expansive and covers every chapter of the Bible. Some of his messages are well thought out and typed carefully. Other messages are scribbled on bits of paper. All of his work was tucked into a box with his typewriter when he died in 1947. I found the box in 1987 and have worked since then to compile the work into a publishable format, "Grandpa's Whit and Wisdom." If you are in the Cary N.C. area, you can pick up a copy of the book for $5 or buy online for $12.50 through CreateSpace or Amazon.