Lickley's Corners Baptist Church

Flowers and colors both have meanings and sometimes they are at odds with each other. The meaning of some flowers vary with their color. For instance, a red rose means love, a pink rose means happiness, white means silence or innocence, but yellow represents jealously. A pink carnation symbolizes a mother’s love, yellow means disdain, purple means antipathy, striped represents refusal, white means pure and ardent love, red means “Alas my poor heart“. A red chrysanthemum means love, white means truth, yellow means slighted love. Camellias means graciousness but the red camellia means loveliness.

Amaryllis means pride. Anemone means to forsake. Calla Lilies symbolize magnificent beauty. Cosmos stands for order and harmony. Cyclamen represents shyness or diffidence. Forget-me-not means true love. Foxglove represents insincerity. Freesia means innocence. Hyacinth means remembrance. Hydrangea means perseverance. Iris says, “I have a message for you.” Lilacs represent first love. Lily represent purity and sweetness. Lily of the Valley means happiness or the return of happiness. Orchid means beautiful lady, Belle. Peony represents bashfulness. Phlox means agreement. Poppy means consolation. Violet means modesty, humility, and hidden loveliness. Snapdragon means presumption. Stock means lasting beauty. Sunflower means haughtiness, pride. Sweet pea means departure. Tulip declares true love. Waxy gardenia means secret untold love. Yarrow represents good health, well-being, and healing. Zinnia represents thoughts of absent friends.

The Flower Wedding

By Emily Carey Alleman

When young Sweet William aster

If she would be his bride,

Miss Black-eyed Susan answered “yes”

And swayed close to his side.

Beneath her lovely wedding gown

Of dainty Queen Anne’s lace,

She wore a satin cowslip that

Clung to her form with grace.

She wore foxgloves upon her hands,

Coxcombs held her hair,

Lady-slippers sheathed her feet---

They made a bonny pair.

The Canterbury bells rang our

To wish them joy through life

As Jack-in-the-pulpit said the words

That made them man and wife.

Her mother had to balsam for

She fount it all confusing---

Her bleeding heart was bruised and sore,

A daughter she was losing.

The dogwood barked and scared the groom,

The dandelions roared!

Snapdragons frightened all the quests

Until peace was restored.

Soon after they were wed she cut

His batchelor buttons off,

And he foreswore his Indian pipe

Because it made her cough.

He gave her gifts of candytuft,

Bought with his marigold,

And purchased Johnny-jump-up toys

When his first phlox were sold.

The milkweed furnished all their milk,

The four-o-clock told time;

They worshipped every baby’s breath---

Their marriage was sublime!

Restoration is putting back into the normal state as by repairing or rebuilding. Some things that can be restored are: faith, cars, health, relationships, and electricity.

Significant Living is a bimonthly magazine that celebrates life and faith for those over 50. It is published by Total Living International. They have resources available. Their address is Significant Living, P. O. Box 37152, Boone, IA 50037-4151.
www.SL50.org or call 800-223-3161. The September/October 2010 issue included an article about restoration.

Mitch Kruse was the CEO of Kruse International in Indiana. The automobile auction business was started by his grandfather in 1952 and had been in the family for three generations. Mitch and his father had built it up into the world’s largest collector car sales organization. His travel schedule took him away from his family for 45 weekends a year. In 1992, he sought legal advice from his uncle Derald Kruse, a local lawyer. He asked Mitch, “Have you ever thought about changing the scorecard of your life from money to wisdom?” Mitch’s response was to seek wisdom in Scripture that would restore not automobiles but relationships. He wrote Restoration Road to share what he learned. Authentic restoration comes from the inside out and requires gentleness.

The design of a new car begins with a model of clay. In the Bible, we are compared to clay vessels shaped by God. Mitch believes authentic restoration comes from the inside out. It relies on the work of the original maker. He uses the acrostic CLAY. Confess to God. Learn His design for our lives. Apply what we learn from Scripture. Yield the outcome to God. His lawyer uncle advised him to sift the foolish from the wise. Mitch recalls, “As my thoughts became clearer, my choices became wiser.” In 1999, eBay purchased the business. More information is available at www.mitchkruse.com or www.the restoration road.com.

My sister , Connie, and I had grown apart over the years. Fifteen years ago, she approached me about restoring our relationship by having a sister retreat. She lives in Grayling and I live in Hudson so we meet about halfway between those places. At first, it was planned for a weekend and would start Saturday morning and end Sunday afternoon. We would go shopping, eat out, share memories, and pray together. On Sunday, we would attend church together and have a picnic. Then we would go our separate ways. Now we have the freedom to meet during the week and we chat weekly.

Restoration is putting back into the normal state as by repairing or rebuilding. Some things that can be restored are: faith, cars, health, relationships, and electricity. Restoration is a good thing.

Recently while sorting I came across these gems.

The speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
Rummage Sale A good chance to get rid of everything not worth keeping but too good to throw away.
Bring your husband.
Three shift Family Father works the night shift, Mother works the day shift and the children are left to shift for themselves.

Old Fashioned Sayings -
“Loved ones are the threads in the fabric of our soul.”
“I haven’t seen her in a coon’s age.”
“He sits there grinning like a fox eatin’ yellow jackets.”
“Ugly as a mud fence.”
“As common as an old shoe.”
“Fat as a goose nailed to a board.”
“If he was born to hang, he’ll never drown.”
“Busy as a one-armed paper hanger.”
“Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.”
“Cold as a well digger in Idaho.”
“I haven’t eaten in so long, my stomach thinks my throat’s cut.”

“As thick as the hair on a dog’s back.”
“Just as happy as a tree full of owls.”
“She’s so mad, if she bit herself, she’d take hydrophobia.”
“Dizzy as a bessie bug.”
“You’d gripe if you were going to be hung with a new rope.”
“Dark as a sack of black kittens.”
“Two heads are better than one, even if one is a cabbage head.”
“Now she‘s a piece of work.”
“I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.”
“She looks like she’s been dead and rained on.”
“Not for all the rice in China.”
“He wouldn’t take a black land farm in Arkansas for that horse.”
“He was courtin‘ the cow to get the calf.”
“Nutty as a fruit cake.”
“A sight for sore-eyes.”
“You missed it by a country mile.”
“Close, but no cigar.”
“A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.”
“That’s the cat’s meow.”
“Quick as two shakes of a lamb‘s tail.”
“Like water off a duck’s back.”
“Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.”
“Don’t cry over spilled milk.”
“Can’t see the forest for the trees.”
“Handy as a pocket on a shirt.”
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
“A stitch in time saves nine.”
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“Still waters run deep.”
“Don‘t burn your bridges behind you.”
“Little foxes spoil the vines.”
“One rotten apple can spoil the whole barrel”
“Prayer changes things.”
“Red sky in the morning sailors take warning. Red sky at night sailors delight.”
“That’s harder than trying to sneak daylight past a rooster".
”Whatever you do, 'Don‘t throw the baby out with the bathwater!”

The government is my Shepherd. Therefore I need not work. It allows me to lie down on a good job. It leads me beside still factories. It destroys my initiative. It leads me in the path of a parasite for politics sake. Yes, though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficit spending, I will fear no evil, for the government is with me. It prepares an economic utopia for me, by appropriating the earnings of my grandchildren. It fills my head with false security. My inefficiency runs over. Surely the government should take care of me all the days of my life. And I shall dwell in a fools paradise forever.

A class of eight year olds describe grandparents. Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people’s. A grandfather is a man, and a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come to see them.. They are so old they shouldn’t play hard or run. It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money. When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars. They show us and talk to us about the colors of the flowers and also why we shouldn’t step on “cracks.” They don’t say, “Hurry up.” Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes. They wear glasses and funny underwear. They can take their teeth and gums out. It’s funny when they bend over; you hear gas leaks, and they blame their dog. Grandparents don’t have to be smart. They have to answer questions like “Why isn’t God married?” and “How come dogs chase cats?” When they read to us, they don’t skip. They don’t mind if we ask for the same story over again. Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don’t have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us. They know we should have snack time before bed time, and they say prayers with us and kiss us even when we’ve acted bad.

A six year old was asked where his grandma lived. “Oh” he said, “She lives at the airport, and when we want her, we just go get her. Then when we’re done having her visit, we take her back to the airport.” Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good things, but I don’t get to see him enough to get as smart as him!

Grandparent’s answering machine. Good morning! At present we are not home but please leave your message after you hear the beep. If you are one of our children, dial 1 and then select the option from 1 to 5 in order of “arrival” so we know who you are. If you need us to stay with the children, press 2. If you want to borrow the car, press 3. If you want us to wash and iron your clothes, press 4. If you want the grandchildren to sleep here tonight, press 5. If you want us to pick up the kids at school. Press 6. If you want us to prepare a meal for Sunday or to have it delivered to your home, press 7. If you want to come to here to eat, press 8. If you need money, dial 9. If you are going in invite us to dinner, start talking we are listening!”

According to the Tea Association of the USA Inc., Americans served more than 50 billion cups of tea in 2006. There’s an English saying, “A cup of decent tea helps for everything.” The dictionary defines a cup of tea as something one likes or excels in or a person suited to one’s taste.

What does tea mean to you? To Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, tea means comfort. She gives five tips for making tea. 1. Make sure the water is boiling. Just as it begins to boil, pour some into the teapot to warm up the pot. 2. After the pot is warm, put in loose tea because it is tastier. 3. Let the water come to a boil and pour a little over the tea so it begins to warm and soak a bit. Wait a minute , then add the rest of the boiling water and let it steep from three to five minutes. 4. Then pour it into a cup through a tea strainer. Always use a cup and saucer because it tastes better that way. 5. If you take lemon, milk, or sugar in your tea, put it in last.

There are basically two types of tea: camellia and herbal. Camellia sinensis leaves are: black, green, and white. The difference involves two things: various degrees of oxidation (fermentation) and the method used to process the tea. Black tea leaves are oxidized up to four hours, while oolong is not so long. It is oxidized for two to three hours. Orange Pekoe is a common type of black tea. Green and white teas are not oxidized (not fermented) but are steamed, rolled, and dried. Green tea comes from mature leaves while white tea comes from immature leaves. Herbal teas are infusions of botanical roots, bark, leaves, seeds, and other plant parts. Black tea has a stronger taste than green tea because of oxidation. Black tea can be good for your health. It can boost heart health and help recover from stress. Green tea is not fermented and may help protect against some cancers. Chinese researchers found cancer risk decreased as green tea consumption increased. White tea may be better yet because it has higher levels of antioxidants than green or black. There are assorted varieties of black, green, white, and herbal teas.

Green tea has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine. It has many health benefits. It supports healthy body mass, inhibits fat digestion and absorption, promotes fat burning, boosts exercise capacity, helps prevent a variety of cancers and heart disease, promotes eye health and diabetes, and may help fight autoimmune diseases. When we go to the Panda House, we order Chinese tea.

To me tea means friendship and hospitality. It provides an opportunity to make memories and spend time with someone you love. Grandma Coney liked Red Rose tea. She collected the figurines and displayed them in her kitchen window. Dad Knowlton liked Salada tea because of the sayings on the tags which he saved. Sayings like: A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial, Dieting: it’s simply what you don’t put in your mouth, Gardener’s assistant: member of the weeding. Mom Knowlton, received a basket of tea bags for Christmas one year from a friend with a note that read: On Christmas day at half past three, make your self a cup of tea. I’ll think of you. You think of me. Underneath the Christmas tree. Perhaps the English are right, “A cup of decent tea helps for everything.”

My husband, Tom, and I have a grandson, Parker Arnold Knowlton, who was born April 6. Spending time with Parker will be our cup of tea. What is your cup of tea?

Rhubarb is a cool-climate perennial that is native to southern Siberia. It has been cultivated in Asia for centuries before it was introduced to Europe about 1600. It grows best from root divisions called crowns. The large leaves spring from a crown several inches below the soil. It does best when dug around so the plant has the freedom to grow. It has a deep network of roots that penetrate the subsoil so it can store food. The best soil to promote growth is slightly acid. It cannot be over fertilized. The thick reddish leaf stalks are somewhat acidic. The leaves must not be eaten because they contain oxalic acid which is poisonous.

Rhubarb is a good source of vitamin A. It also contains some of the B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, and iron while being low in calories. Rhubarb is one of the few vegetables which can be grown in Alaska but not in the Southern Gulf states. It is most productive in the northern third of the United States. It requires a good cold period of dormancy, preferably at freezing temperatures. Harvest should not begin until it has had a full year to establish its roots. Do not cut the stalks to harvest them. Instead grasp the stalk near its base and twist away from the plant. The pulled stalks will separate easily from the crown. Harvest only the large stalks. The short thin stalks are left to feed the roots for the next year.

My husband Tom pulled some rhubarb and is waiting to taste the spring tonic. Here is an unusual cobbler recipe you might like to try. Magically Rising Cobbler ½ stick of butter, 1 c. sugar, 1 c. flour, 1 c. milk, 2 T. baking powder, ½ t. salt, 3 c. fruit. If the fruit is sour, you may want to let it set in added sugar. Preheat oven to 350. Put the butter in the bottom of a 9x9 glass baking dish and place dish in the hot oven to melt the butter. While the butter melts, combine all the other non--fruit ingredients in a mixing bowl. Remove dish from the oven, and pour batter on top of the hot melted butter. Top batter with the fruit. Return the dish to the oven on a cookie sheet in case of batter over-flow. Bake about 45 minutes. Crust rises up, magically. Remove from oven once the crust is golden brown.

How did strawberries get their name? There are three possibilities. The Old English for strew-”streawberry”- because of the plant’s habit of spreading over the ground. Still others claim the name was “stray-berry”, for the same reason. The third is because straw mulch is often spread beneath the plants to keep the fruit clean and healthy. Straw mulch was one of the first mulches used in the garden.

There are three types of strawberries. The June-bearing produce one crop per year. That is a good choice if you want a crop all at once. Everbearing produce in spring, and again in fall. Day-neutral produces a heavy June crop and continues to bear smaller crops through out the summer. The last two types are good choices if you want the season to linger. The day-neutrals produce berries on the ends of runners and make good hanging baskets. If you don’t have much room, you may consider growing them in containers, such as barrels. The everbearing varieties require plenty of water during the growing season and produce well in the fall if the period of cool weather is expected to last a month or more between summer’s heat and fall frosts.

Hundreds of varieties are available now. Some of them grow in every state in the Union , including Hawaii and Alaska. They grow well in all temperate zones. But the colder areas produce fruits of the highest quality. They are a good source of vitamin C and little loss takes place when they are frozen. The plants should have healthy tops with some green leaves, and fairly strong crowns. They like well-drained light soil. They do best if planted in a bed that has not been home to strawberries for five years. If the soil produces good potatoes, it will produce good strawberries. Manure is a good source of humus because it supplies nutrients to the plants as well as organic matter. Other humus sources include: sawdust, wood shavings, crushed corncobs, peat moss, or leaves. The plants ought to be protected from the sun and wind while they are being planted. A cloudy or rainy day is a good choice for planting. Set the plants right up to the shoulder. The crown of leaves should be above the soil. The mulch will help preserve the moisture and eliminate some of the weeding. It is suggested they be mulched if the temperature drops below 20 degrees to protect the berries.

Water is a necessary ingredient for a healthy bed during the fruiting season and beyond because new runner fruit buds are growing. The best time to pick strawberries is in early morning while the fruit is cool. Twist them from the vine while holding on to the stem. Do not pull them off their stems. To preserve the vitamins and nutrients, wash them before the stems are removed. Fruit rot is a fungus common if it rains while the berries are ripening. Remove all rotting fruit because the spores from the diseased berries will spread to the unripe ones.

When I think of berries, I think of friendship. Our first strawberry patch was from plants given to us by my husband, Tom’s, boss. When we moved to the country, the previous owners, James and Jane Hockman, had a healthy berry patch that was planted in the old chicken yard area. Then our patch moved around in the garden. Now we are back to the area where we started out over twenty-five years ago. Tom purchased Allstar plants from Turpin’s nursery this year. They are June bearing, productive, and disease-resistant.

Is it strew, stray, or straw? Is it June bearing, everbearing, or day-neutral? The choice is yours. Whatever you choose I wish you a berry good summer.

Arnold Albert Schultz passed away suddenly Saturday, May 29, 1993, due to injuries received in an automobile accident. Age 78 years, 5 months, and 7 days. He was born December 22, 1914 in Pigeon, Michigan, the son of Albert and Laura (Hoppe) Schultz, one of eleven children. He moved to Merrill, Michigan as a youth. He was formerly employed by General Motors and had also owned and operated a farm. Mr. Schultz was a gentle, generous man who put other’s needs before his own. Being an older son in a large family, he felt the need to assist financially, so he was unable to complete high school as a youth. He graduated through Merrill Adult Education fulfilling a dream after a delay of forty years. He was a member of the Merrill Wesleyan Church serving on the church board for 41 years. He also served as church treasurer, secretary, Sunday school bus driver and teacher.

These memories of Arnold are from his nieces and nephews in Schultz Family History. 1. A truly religious person. 2. Unassuming. 3. Dry quiet wit. 4. Tremendous power of observation. 5. I went to church all my childhood days with him. 6. I helped in the hay and other harvests. 7. Another warm, loving man. 8. He was always very active in the church. 9. He drove the Sunday school bus and would pick us up on the route. I am really grateful I came to know the Lord at that church. 10. He didn’t say much but you should listen to what he did say. 11. A quiet, honest, man.

When I needed encouragement, he would tell me to “just be yourself, people will like you.” When I was fourteen, Dad spent his vacation pay on an accordion for me. For the next 2 ½ years I practiced and took lessons. Dad believed in the reward system. When I worked hard in the hay or bean field, there was ice cream as a treat. When I did well in a spelling bee or some other type of memorization/recitation, I was rewarded. When I graduated from high school, I did not know what I wanted to be. Dad encouraged me to attend our church college and study to become a teacher. Since I did not have a job, he set aside a certain field on his farm for my education. He was generous. Even after I did had a job, if he was going to the bank, he would deposit extra money in my account. I am thankful for a loving earthly father.

Dad was a man of faith, knew his Bible and his heavenly father. When I was four, I had the mumps. Before he left for work, he knelt down beside me and prayed. During the summer holidays, we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. Dad worked second shift in the factory, so that was one way to make the holidays special and enjoy being together.

Even if your earthly father is gone, you still have your Heavenly Father.

Winston Churchill said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

Two ladies in history knew this. They supported their husbands when they were servicemen, senators, vice-presidents, and presidents. They had daughters who wrote books about them. Included in the books of over four hundred pages are personal letters and pictures. Margaret Truman wrote Bess W. Truman and Julie Nixon Eisenhower wrote Pat Nixon, the Untold Story. I found the books at Materials Management in Hudson.

Elizabeth Virginia Wallace was born in Independence, Missouri on February 13, 1885. She had three younger brothers and helped care for them and her mother after her father died. This responsibility weighed so heavily on her that she continued to do it even after she became first lady. Because of this strong tie, she would spend some of her time back home and away from Washington D. C. She and her home town husband kept in touch by writing letters during her absence. She was a private person and tried to shield her home and family from being in the spotlight. A common answer to press questions was “No comment.“ Here is a sample of the problems the first lady dealt with in 1946. She issued a statement denying a Walter Winchell story that her daughter Margaret had spent the summer in New York having an operation on her nose. Saks Fifth Avenue started sending her free nylons. She told them to stop it. A soldier appeared at the gate of the white house with a pearl pin gift for Margaret. The Secret Service discovered he was AWOL and using an assumed name. They asked Bess what to do with the pin. She told them to return the pin to the store, and refund the money to the soldier because he was already in enough trouble. People from all over sent her iris bulbs because she liked them. She instructed the gardener to plant them behind the executive offices in the west wing.

Thelma Catherine Ryan was born in a miner’s shack in Ely, Nevada about midnight on March 16, 1912. Her Irish father decided her birthday would be observed on March 17. She along with her two older brothers (the threesome), worked on the truck farm. She was her father’s “St. Patrick’s Babe in the morning.” Her mother and father died when she was young. Before her father died of tuberculosis, he told her brothers to care for “Babe”. After his death, she changed her name to Patricia. When she was almost twenty, she secured a job driving a Packard for over three-thousand miles from California to Connecticut. While out east, she visited relatives in New York and stayed for two years working in a tuberculosis hospital. She returned home and the threesome attended University of Southern California while working their way through. After she graduated with honors, she got a teaching job in Whittier, California, where she met her husband. Family time was important to her as was privacy. During Richard Nixon’s second term Watergate came up. During this stressful time, she hosted the first tour of the White House grounds which became a semiannual event. She had been sent roses from leaders of foreign countries and enjoyed caring for them.

Harry S. Truman was vice-president for about three months when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died and he became president. He finished the first term and completed a second term. Richard Nixon completed his first term and because of Watergate resigned during the second term and his Vice-President, Gerald Ford, finished it. Both men played the piano.

President and Mrs. Nixon requested a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Truman in 1969. During the brief visit, the men discussed foreign policy while the ladies toured the house in Independence, Missouri. At the conclusion of the brief visit, President Nixon gave the former president the Steinway paino that had been on the second floor of the White House in 1945.

Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Nixon were two ladies from different backgrounds, times, and states who served our country for almost two terms. Two ladies who knew…” we make a life by what we give.”