Daddy and the rocking chair

Mama's girl was sittin outside this morning on the back porch rocking away enjoying the cooler weather. Daddy came to mind, I am sure because I was a sittin and a rockin. Daddy loved his rocking chair. He would sit for hours and hours just a sittin and a rockin away. He would discuss and topic you would bring up and sometimes he brought up his own. Mostly he liked to discuss the Bible and religion and sometimes he would discuss politics, mostly because of Mama. He liked to tell anyone he would meet when the decussion would turn to religion that it didn't matter what title you put on yourself. Titles were for politicians and beauty queens and folks like that. In Daddy's opinion the only title anyone needed to carry was " I am a christian". I have to say I agree 100% with him. He was a very smart and educated man. He went to Wake Forrest school as he liked to call it then on to Southwestern Theological Seminary. He became a Southern Baptist Preacher, by denomination. I believe that he heard so much about this denomination and that denomination that later in his life he just preferred to be called a Christian Pastor. Daddy was like that. Now on the politics it was a different matter entirely. He could not stand Bill Clinton and for some reason Mama thought that Bill Clinton was God's answer to prayer. She never, ever believed he had anything to do with Monica L. and almost every day I would hear them arguing over the Dems and the Reps. I tried not to engage Daddy in any political conversations as I knew I would not win! So I remained neutral when asked my opinion and this was my way of saying "I am not discussing this today" Daddy. The more he and Mama would argue the faster he would rock! I thought many times that the rocker was going to become airborne at any moment! I could just see the headlines in the Farmville News...."Preacher gets airborne as wife fusses on". God love him and he did, ....a wonderful man with so much knowledge to give and a rocking chair to preach from! Dear God, thank you for my wonderful, loving, gracious, Father and thank you for our rocking chair talks.