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she wanted to share it with all of the young people.Let’s see now, just what did I learn from Hazel Cooke?ReflectionsDorothy TaylorWell, that does it.,.you know...touching little folks...time was when it didn’t matter so much...well...perhaps not in my young life anyway. I was expecting to be touched by some church folks. They would peer at me with their bright eyes and ample smiles and pat my head or shoulder.Hazel Cooke was the most lovingest adult I knew during those childhood days. She was always at church, she was my Sunday School teacher for years, and she was the hostess at several parties attended by all the young folks in the community.One party I can recall we youngsters had the privilege of making and eating popcorn and we could stretch out the taffy candy like pros.The Cookes had one older son who had . already left home and so the noisemakers were always welcomed. She was the one who dug up the $4.00 for a month’s pay for me as I swept out the church building one summer. (It was a tough job and felt that I had earned every penny of the dollars.)She was the one who always called on me to play the two songs I had learned to pick out on the piano.Mom always pushed me towards her request too. If she had a gift from the Lord she could be identified as an encourager. At times, because I was always good with children, I had to tend to the Lil rascals in a small room directly behind the podium.It was a pleasurable assignment and most usually I was ready for a turn there.One Bible verse Mrs. Cooke always checked on to see if we were keeping it in our mind was John 3:16.It was a part of her understanding andWell...one thing for certain was to let my love for others grow and become a vital part of my being. Another thingmight be to allow for growth in my love for■ |children. In no way would I ever deny mylove for children.*As I grew into being one of those school teachers it was obvious that my love and adoration for children was beyond even my own understanding.When and if they needed a hug they learned who to head for and my response was always ready. Now, I’m told that touching and hugging are to be classified “could be wrong.”The tough part is knowing which hug and by whom could be construed as being leading to wrong thoughts. Oh mercy!Well, let me tell you about the worse thing I’ve ever committed in my life and hopefully still your minds of any wrong doing on my part.It’s a gift that the Lord Himself gave to me even as a child and it just means that the gift of drawing has belonged in my head for a long time. It just means that I can see and if I can see something I can draw it. ?500000...a sweet teacher came to myroom once (long ago) with a cartoon in her hand. She wanted the picture drawn for her in order that she could give it to a friend as a joke.500000...1 drew the naked lady! It was just a naked woman with her fat fanny showing and she had a smoking revolver in her hand and she was peering quite angrily at the destroyed bathroom scales.Now, wouldn’t that be shocking to even Hazel Cooke who expected the very best from her charges.John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
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Lockhart Post Register
Lockhart, Texas, US
Thu, Jun 26, 2003
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