Well, the weather man tells us that we are expected to get some more snow tomorrow, so I thought I’d whip out some classic photos of my grandfather when he was a student at Southern. The first picture is a picture of the seminary lawn (affectionately called ‘The Josephus Bowl”) looking back at Mullins Hall. The second picture is dapper Nolan standing on the Ohio River. Here’s what the back of the photo says:
James Nolan Brister – made January 21, 1940. Ten below zero weather. Standing on the Ohio River.
Neat stuff. I guess it’s not that quite that cold here. But if it does, I will be sure to get someone to take a picture of me with a top hat standing on the Ohio, since I bear my grandfather’s name. 🙂
(see it LARGE here)
(view LARGE here)
Like I said in the last post…cool! I’m a little envious as I do not have much of a Christian heritage to look back on. My prayer is that one day my kids’ kids will be showing off pics of their grandfather like this. That’s not a bad prayer…
For sure. My grandfather loved to tell the story of God’s faithfulness throughout his life, especially about coming to Southern. He got a bus ticket from Yazoo City, MS to come to Louisville without a dime to his name. He made his way to the president’s office and told him that God had called him to go to seminary to prepare for ministry. A week later, the president “just happened” to receive a letter in the mail from a businessman in MS who, under conviction from God, felt that he was supposed to financially underwrite a young ministerial student from his homestate. My granddad just happened to be that man.
In fact, he was the first in our family to graduate from high school. I still have his Greek textbooks and many of his notes from that time period. During Thanksgiving of 2005, he went to be with Jesus, having ministered for 72 years in gospel ministry and married to his bride for 64. He did not leave us, having pastored a megachurch, written books, or stood on big platforms, but he did teach me about loving people and loving God–something I think Jesus talked pretty highly about.
Anyway, my hope is mutual with yours, in that one day future generations could find in their father and grandfather someone who was unrelentingly preoccupied with Jesus.
What a great heritage. It puts alot of things in perspective in regards to what “true” success is. For mothers that want to be inspired, read “Carolyn’s Story” on GirltalkBlogs.com. I confess I shed a few tears as my heart said yes to raising a godly generation of children and seeing the fruit of your labor…with the Lord’s help.
On side note, enjoy reading your blog and tell you wife “hi” from the meyer’s in LA. It happens to be fairly nice here 🙂
Cara,
Great to hear from you! Are you keeping your husband in line? Man, we miss you guys. But the next time I see you, you better be able to pull of some of that cajun twang. Are you sure you wouldn’t rather be in North Dakota? Just kidding. 🙂
Tell your man that he better finish up his dissertation, lest I call him every night with five minute voicemails.
Anyway, Dusti and I love you guys and look forward to meeting up sometime soon. I will be sure to tell her you commented on P&P.
FYI….I AM TRYING MY HAND AT GUMBO AND I THINK I DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB. :). AND WE DIDN’T COME FROM NORTH DAK, IT WAS SOUTH DAK. NORTH DAK. IS WILDERNESS COMPARED TO SD.
JASON IS PRINTING HIS FIRST DRAFT AS WE SPEAK (OR TYPE 🙂 ) CAN’T WAIT TO BE DONE. LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU GUYS IN MAY.
CHEERIO