Tea With Friends

This lovely lady is Katherine Fletcher, one of Plant City’s

former Strawberry Festival Queens.  She lights up the tea

room when she visits us and overflows with joyfulness!

We have added her autographed picture to our strawberry

queen collection and look forward to her next visit.

The gentleman pictured here with my mom,  Mr. Herald,  visited us

for tea with his family.  After they finished dining, his wife and

daughters went into our gift shop. Then he happened to find one

 of the old Bibles I have  collected to display in our dining room and

sat down and began to  read. This was the first time I had witnessed

anyone reading one of my Bibles during tea time.  I was so touched to

see this gentleman  reading I went over to talk with him.  I asked him

if he was enjoying himself and in return he asked me if I memorized

scripture, somewhat  puzzled by the question, I replied that I have

memorized a few verses.   So of course I had to ask him what scriptures

 he knew from memory.  He then started with Joshua 1: 8-9 and continued

to overflow with scripture from memory.  During our conversation he

explained he began memorizing in 1963 when Moody Bible sent out

 cards with scriptures to memorize.  His testimony is a reminder and

encouragement to me of the importance of scripture memorization. 

This moment has encouraged me to spend some time memorizing

scripture, beginning with Joshua 1:8-9.  Hopefully I will always

remember this special moment.