Category: Family & Legacy Stories
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Lord, Open My Eyes
Series: Family & Legacy Stories Every family has stories. Some are documented. Some are memories. Some are family lore passed from one generation to another. And some are rumors repeated so many times that eventually nobody remembers what was fact, what was assumption, and what was simply somebody’s judgment. My family has those stories too.…
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Family, Memory, and the Stories We Inherit
Series: Family & Legacy StoriesFriday, August 14, 2026 What memories do you have of going to church as a child? Pull Up a Rocking Chair. One of the benefits of growing up in a small church was the opportunity for generations to worship and fellowship together. As a child, I watched. I observed. I listened.…
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Pull Up a Rocking Chair… Let Me Tell You a Story
Wednesday Reflections Every family has its stories. Mine certainly does. Looking back now, I realize that my two older brothers taught me something about Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son that I didn’t understand when I first heard it. The lesson wasn’t about deciding which brother was right. It was about discovering that grace is…
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Every Family Has Stories Worth Remembering
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year August begins in two days. School will soon be starting, and before we know it, the first hints of autumn will be in the air. That means the holiday season can’t be far behind. I love the holidays. Do you? As a child, I remember celebrating the end…
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Pull Up a Rocking Chair.
Let Me Tell You a Story… The Path Through the Woods oey was eight years old and lived on a small farm in the rural South. The farm wasn’t much by the world’s standards, but it was the only world Joey had ever known. There were fields to hoe, cows to milk, chickens to feed,…
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Every Family Has Stories
Family is usually defined as people related by birth or marriage. In a broader sense, though, we are all family, connected to one another in countless ways. As a pastor, I also discovered another kind of family—the church family. Over the years, I have belonged to several, and each one has left its mark on…
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Every Family Has Stories Worth Remembering
Family stories are more than names on a genealogy chart. They remind us that the choices our ancestors made continue to shape who we are today. One of those stories belongs to my ancestor, Peter Pearson. In 1701, Peter left Dean Parish in Cumbria, England, and crossed the Atlantic to begin a new life in…
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Every Family Has Stories Worth Remembering
Pull up a rocking chair. Let me tell you a story. Every family has stories worth remembering. Some make us laugh. Others bring tears to our eyes. Family history is filled with the ups and downs of life, but I have learned that sometimes the downs become the very path that leads us to the…
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Pull Up a Rocking Chair. Let Me Tell You a Story.
What prompts people to pack up everything they own, leave the land of their birth, and journey to a country they have never seen? The human story is, in many ways, an immigration story. Nearly every family can trace its roots to someone who made the difficult decision to leave home in search of something…
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Every Family Has Stories Worth Remembering
My Mother’s Smile Every family has stories worth remembering. This is the story of my mother, Lelia Hilda McGill Pearson Wynn, a woman whose life taught me that love can bloom even after years of hardship. Mother was born on November 20, 1913, in the Eucutta Community of Jones County, Mississippi, to James Samuel McGill…
The Curious Pilgrim 