I never had religious training early in life. Just wandered around from whomever would take us to whatever denomination they went to. Sporadic is the best definition of my religious training as a child. I remember being in a denomination where the women were falling on the floor and I asked the preacher if that didn’t hurt them when they fell. He said no and told me they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Even at my very young age that didn’t sound right to me, but of course being a child never thought about it any more, but I do remember thinking. Why aren’t the men doing the same? Children…..

Later on in life I discovered that Tillit S. Teddlie, songwriter for so many songs that the Lord’s church sings today, came from that very town in which I was a foster child. I thought, how close, yet so far to be near the Truth and not discover it til later on. It was rather a scary thought to me. I had never even heard of the Lord’s church. The first time I went in a building where God’s people met, I asked why they didn’t have a piano. I thought they were too poor to afford one. Children….

I do remember reading God’s word as a child, looking at the pictures….and then I discovered the Truth and was baptized at 14 years of age. I have loved the Truth ever since. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

God’s Word was then and has been a great source of wisdom, instruction, stability, guidance and immense comfort in my life, and His Word can be the same for you and your children. Teach your children His Word. “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” Ecclesiastes 12:13

…and for all of the Bible versions, the best translation is how we live out the conversation of our lives before our fellow man.

The devil is not afraid of a dusty Bible.

Eileen Light