Life’s Lamplighters

Albert Allen

Description

The everyday courtesies towards strangers that pause sometimes for lunch or other needs in their travels.
The brilliance of a lone white horse grazing on a hillside pasture of lush green grass dotted with scarlet sumac. And like the horse; I too would be alone, (without the light of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ), amid the bountiful beauty of the land.
With each new twist in the molding of life, lamplighters gently guide others through crossroads and obstacles, while providing hope at every turn.
In a six-decade cultural collection of campfire tales and gatherings around winter’s wood stoves, and fishing and hunting campfires while working at a farm and in barnyard lots, Albert Allen shares an inspiring and sometimes amusing glimpse into the goodness and kindness that permeates the peacefulness of Southeast Missouri's Carter County. Within short stories presented in alphabetical order, Allen casts a spotlight on the heartbreaks and sorrows that include accidental tragedies and the loss of community family members, and the poignant moments that include the beauty of nature and its creatures, the outpouring of kindheartedness toward the misfortunate, and the passionate prayer requests raised to God, the Heavenly Father.
Life’s Lamplighters is a volume of short tales that reflect on love, goodness, faith, hope, and all the gifts nature and life provides for the blessed residents of Southeast Missouri.

Sujets

• Humorous
• Albert Allen
• Stories
• Family
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 11 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663240996
• Langue: English

Extrait

Life’s LAMPLIGHTERS
 
 
 
 
 
ALBERT ALLEN
 
 
 

 
 
LIFE’S LAMPLIGHTERS
 
 
Copyright © 2022 Albert Allen.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-4098-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4099-6 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022910646
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 08/09/2022
CONTENTS
Acorns
Admiration
Adversary
Afternoon Tea
Agape
Airplane
Albert
Anguished and Forsaken
Answerability
Application
Apple Tree
Arky
Arrival—Departure
Appearance
Autumn’s Banquet
Autumn’s Gold
Backlash
Backwater
Baptized
Barbed Wire
Barn-Walk Creek
Battleship
Be Reasonable
Big Spring
Black Cat
Blossom
Blue Guardian
Blue Jay
Bluffing
Boom-Boom
Bodhi
Bootosh
Boundary Line
Box Trap
Boxing Lesson
Brandon
Bread
Breakfast
Breakfast Coffee
Breaking Dawn
Bronze Back
Brushin’
Buckeye
Buck-fish
Buckshot
Bucktails and Bucketmouth
Bunch
Campfire Chef
Campaign
Canadian Geese
Carnival Glass
Catch and Release
Cedar
Challenge
Chicken
Childhood
Christmas
Chucker
Chum
Church Social
Coal Oil
Cold
Colors
Come On Over
Comet
Comfort
Comrade
Companionship
Conclusively Indispensable
Contentment
Cornstalk
Cottonmouth
County Superintendent of Schools
Crafty
Creation
Creek Chub
Crow
Cupola Pond
Dad
Daily Thanks
Daring
Date
Dawn
Death of a Blue Bird
Deliverance
Departure
Did You Know
Doebuck
Doesn’t Count
Do Drop Inn
Dog Days of Summer
Dog Fennel
Dogged
Dried Beans
Dysfunctional Faith
Edna
Epitaph
Enduring Love
Erty Boy
Escape
Eternal Gift
Eternal Father
Ezra and Jim
Existence
Family Plot
Fantasist
Fertile Ground
Filicide
Fiery Hunt
Fireball and Blaze
First Sale
Fish Chain
Flagtail
Flea Market
Fly Popper
Foraging
Framed
Friend
Gilt
Goats
God’s Love
Good News
Grace
Grandchildren
Grandfather’s Granddaughter
Grandma’s Biscuit Bowl
Grapevine
Green Persimmons
Guardian’s Garden
Gunnysack
Habanero Bullet
Half Rack
Hal-gee-peno
Hallowed
HandLine Fishing
Hands
Hawaiian Flowered Shirt
Heavenly Grace
Hills
Hoban
Hodge
Hogue
Honesty
Hook
Hoop Waddle Pooh
Hoosick
Horseshoe
Howl
Hungry
I Knew Him Not
I Look and I See
I Remember
Ice
Illusion
Image
Immortal
In Awe
Infinite Wisdom
Inner Beauty
I Remember
Iris
Iron Skillet
Jaybird
Jay-Boy
Jersey Cow
Jody Ann
Joker
Jolly
Joog
Joy
Jubock
Joule
Knothole
Korc and Treb
Koshkonoggy
Lacy and Macy’s
Landscape
Legacy
Life at the End of Nosh Road
Life’s Crossroads
Life’s Journey
Life’s Struggles
Lilly
Lonely
Love
Lord
Luck
Mankind
Maple Leaves
March 4, 2008
Marvel
Memories
Miller Lake
Millstone
Mink
Minnow Face
Mistakes
Misplaced
Morning Prayer
Mortals
Mossberg
My Mother’s Love
Mother
Mother, Come Quick
Mountains
Muckett
Mulberry Picking
Muskrat
My Earthly Door
My Friend’s Passing
My Pond
My Secrets Lay Bared
My Son, My Daughter
My Tree
My Song
Nicknames of my Childhood
Nature
Near
Night’s Lightning Storm
October Float
October Moon
Old Stump
Owl’s Roost
Ox Shoe
Ozark Culture
Paddlefish
Paint Rock
Panther Spring
Paw and Spuff
Paws
Peace
Peerless Perfection
Persimmon Hole
Phillips 66
Place of My Birth
Plate Lunch
Platform
Plopp
Politicians
Pork and Beans and Turnip Greens
Possum
Potatoes
Potato Peeling
Power
Presence
Promise
Proposal
Plummer
Puget Sound
Pullets
Puny
Quibble and Wibble
Quigley
Rabbit Hunt
Radiance
Rail Fence
Rain Shower
Red Birds
Red Pig Ridge
Red Wasp
Rejuvenation
Reverse
Ride
Ripp
River
Road Map
Rockin’ On Empty
Rocky Creek
Rolling the Hoop
Pondering Possibilities
Romph
Rook
Rubberneck
Sale Barn
Salt Pickles
Salvation
Sovereign
Sawdust Widow
Sayso
Seed Tick
Set Free
Shame
Share
Show-buck
Showdown
Skewball
Skunk
Skunked
Sleepless
Sleet and Snow
Sledge
Slick
Slobo
Slope
Slough
Smallmouth
Smokin’ Jack
Snag Point Buck
Snide
Snow
Spar
Sparks
Spring Awakens
Spring’s Return
Sput
Standing Tall
Starlings
Strap
Straightforward Love
Stretch
Strider
Sun of Old
Supreme Sacrifice
Survival
Sweeny
Take the Kids Home
Tangled
Tasty Brew
Thanksgiving Tradition
The Big Bang
The Crossing
The Deal
The Fall
The Gifts of Creation
The Hunt
The Journey
The Past, the Present, the Future
The Path
The Rope
The Washing
Perception of Heavenly Thoughts
The Word
Three Bucks
Timen
Tom’s Store
Top-Notch
Topwater
Trek
Triggering Up
Trotline
Tube
Two Kingdoms
Unbelievable Truth
Uniform
Unsurpassed
Unmeasured Love
Untethered Love
Ups and Downs
Van Buren Blues
Void
Voyage
The Passage
Waffle Cake
Warmouth and Hookie
Watercress Spring
Water Striders
Wedding
Weed Hook
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Where’s Heaven?
Where Were You?
White Oak
Whitty
Wild Bill’s First Game
Wild-Crested Iris
Wild Greens
Wild Strawberry
Wild Turkey
Winter’s Bloom
Winter’s Guest
Winter’s Last Hurrah
Winter’s Walks
Wounded
Xylophone
Yellow Sucker
You Knew
You Know Me
Zandy
Zeddie and Jeddie
Zeke
About the Book
About the Author
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To life’s lamplighters, who helped guide me through life’s crossroads, where we laughed, cried, and sometimes cringed with each new twist in the molding of life.

ACORNS
The acorns fall from the white oak tree, green as can be, and now lie upon the cold ground with red, brown, black, and yellow spots. The colorful acorns, the staff of life, will see the wildlife through winter’s cold and snow. The deer will paw, the turkeys will scratch, and the squirrels will dig to find hidden beneath the snow the colorful acorns, which now lie a ripened brown.

ADMIRATION
The day our son was born, we thanked God and asked for guidance in his journey to manhood—first, his graduation from college, then a master’s degree as a specialist, and later, a doctorate in education. We stood in awe of his opportunity as a teacher to serve humanity. Eight years later, his sister, with flaming red hair, joined our family, and we asked for guidance along her journey to womanhood—first, her graduation from college, then a master’s degree in business education, and we stood in awe of her opportunity as a teacher to serve humanity.
God has stirred our mortal minds with love for our children, yet within our carnal minds, we cannot imagine the love and joy the day God watched from on high the birth of His Son and His journey to manhood. Rising from the baptism in the Jordan River, following His graduation from parental studies, He too became earth’s most astounding teacher. And in jubilance, God proclaims to all humanity, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
 

ADVERSARY
I recall the morning’s twilight of my youth and the dagger that plunged deep inside the chest of my adversary, gushing hot, red, sticky blood. With evening’s twilight fading, my lips forever silent, and with the closing of my grave, my love will forever remain unaware of my adversary’s adversary.

AFTERNOON TEA
My afternoon teacup is large, filled with the pungent dark brew, now colored caramel, swirled