Making New Friends and Building New Relationships - July 23rd Edition

Oscar Crawford

Welcome to this Edition of Making New Friends and Building New Relationships for July 23, 2014. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught that love is the only power capable of transforming and enemy into a friend.

In this Edition:
1.  Traveling America and Going Home July 4th, Pt 4
2.  Derrick Farris, Author on Fire
3.  Publications for 2014
4.  Coming Next Week

Enjoy yourself today. Share my experience. Life can be a beautiful experience when you intend to love and make new friends everyday. I encourage you to live and love like that.  I know you can.

Traveling America and Going Home July 4th, Part 4

When July 4th arrived it was time to go across the Tennessee Border for fireworks. Three generations of Crawfords pooled our dollars and away we went. This was going to be our best firework ever. After wheeling and dealing, we walked away with enough entertainment to sound like a small war in our neighborhood.

Front - Left to Right
Betty Jane Crawford ad Clyde Crawford, Jr.
Back Left to Right
LaSandra Crawford - Woods, Oscar Crawford,
L'Tanya Crawford, Ronnie Crawford and Lenora tooley

Sisters cooked favorite foods preparing for the family to gather in the afternoon. A Texas Hold Em Tournament was scheduled with fireworks to begin as soon as it was dark. It was the first time all five of us, my brother and sisters, had been together in 28 years.  When the darkness came, it was time to make the sky rumble. The neighbors know what is coming and make allowance for our noise since we do it only once a year.

We sang. We danced in the street. Our parents took it all in and were good sports about it all. We are blessed. They are always with us for our activities even allowing for new ways of doing things. 

My mother, Betty Jane is an only child and her story is foundation to the development of America. I will tell her story in time to come.We are the family only God could create. 

My father, Clyde Crawford, Jr. is the eldest of four. His and mom's legacy is all of us, five children, 13 grand children, and 9 great grand children. Our family lives on.

We are a noisy rowdy bunch who argue with each other over points of view. It was said we wold argue with a sign board. I was never really sure what that meant but I believe it suggests we hold strong views on personal perspective.

Our parents taught us to love God and Country above all other things. The only color we were taught had highest value was the red, white, and blue. OK, we appreciate the green of money as well and learned to work for money very early on.

Going home for the fourth of July is always a celebration of God, family and country. That is who we are. Today, I close with a glimpse of our fireworks show. Next time, I preach where I was ordained and spend five days with my baby sister Wendy, her husband Joe and her son, Hubert.

Derrick Farris, Author on Fire

Derrick Farris is an author on fire with captivating blogs and published works in 2014. readers are left with mouths wide open at the the conclusion of his thriller, The Camping Trip. Carla and her friends head out on a weekend vacation to the camping site that she loved from her childhood. While her friends keep observing weird occurrences and finding strange things in the woods they try to get some rest and relaxation. The camping site’s inhabitants have other plans for the group as death, sacrifice, and heritage rear their head in the equation. The Camping Trip is a story that will have you scared to pitch a tent in the woods ever again. 

His next work Forgetting My First Love is medicine for all of us who have ever lived through heartbreak. What is a good man? Good relationship? How do you navigate the sea of options when you're ready to build something meaningful after one failed attempt? Shawn has a lot of hurdles to overcome and another life to forget if he is to get another chance at happiness. Forgetting My First Love is a celebratory story of overcoming stubborn memories and hidden fears to have the relationship you know you're capable of having

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Oscar Crawford Media 2014 Publications

Living Christian in an Unchristian World delivers a biblical based love action response to the general malaise affecting church, country, and planet.

Fishers of Men Fishing serves as metaphor for, Fishers of Men,speaking to single women looking for husbands in the 21^st Century.   Women across the Earth are fishing for husbands in vast networks and waters full of men by ethnic group, color, culture, class, education, religion, and political affiliation with limited success. 

Behind the Waterfall Adventure into the unknown with Ossana Mil to save Earth from the Priests Masters of Hell, the Lords of torturous fear and oppression, on Second Earth. Walk with Ossana and learn to live with no fear in the face of insurmountable evil. Face the Lords of Hell. Get ready. Behind teh Waterfall is no picnic. Love requires courageous hope. 

The Slanted Halo In the 1960’s, Zara Syndafor secretly left her diplomatic post for an extended mission to have a baby. On the night she gave birth, kidnappers took her daughter and black bagged her. They drugged her, placed her behind the wheel of a car and pushed it over a mountain. Her body burned beyond recognition. Her jewelry alone established her identity. 30 years later, Zara’s widowed husband, Stephen Syndafor lay on his deathbed in his final hours. He summoned Jaala, former aide to Zara to hear his confession and secrets he did not want to take with him to the grave. Money, maps and murder are on the list and the whereabouts of a grown child.

Coming Next Week

Part 5 of Traveling America and Going Home July 4th, a new blogroll of sites and blogs of interests to you. See you Monday July 28th.  Love and Blessings to you, Oscar