I enjoy bass fishing, deer hunting and golfing in the south.
It matters not how long we live,
But how.
- Bailey
Things don’t happen by accident …
You don’t win a game, a division,
Or a national championship by accident.
You have to make it happen and you
Have to make it happen by what you
Do every day.
- Coach Nick Saban
It’s not buying into my system;
It’s buying into each other.
You have to surrender to each other.
First try to establish yourself.
It’s hard to do that
(Buy into each other) when you
Haven’t established yourself.
- Coach John Calipari
Our attitude toward life
Determines life's attitude
Towards us.
- Earl Nightingale
Victory is always possible
For the person who refuses
To stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill Foundation
There are no limitations
Except those you acknowledge.
Whatever you can conceive
and believe, you can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
There is no chance,
No destiny, no fate,
That can hinder or
Control the firm resolve
Of a determined soul.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Happiness cannot be traveled to,
Owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience
Of living every minute
With love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
The most beautiful people we
Have known are those who have
Known defeat, known suffering,
Known struggle, known loss,
And have found their way out of
Those depths.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Acknowledging the good
that you already have
in your life is the foundation
for all abundance.
- Eckhart Tolle
With one kind gesture
YOU can change a life.
One person at a time
YOU can change the world.
- Steve Maraboli
Kindness is an inner desire that
makes us want to do good things
even if we do not get anything
in return.
It is the joy of our life to do them.
When we do good things from this
inner desire, there is kindness in
everything we think, say, want and do.
- Emmanuel Swedenborg
You make room for good
Things to come in.
- Noah St. John
Your resources are always far greater
Than you imagine them to be.
Never ask, Can I do this?
Ask instead, how can I do this?
- Dan Zadra
Don't have negative thoughts
Of things you cannot control.
Instead invest your energy in
The positive present moment.
- Randy Pausch
Each victory with God can bring
a reassurance once more that the
ones born of God are victorious.
- Anonymous
Victory belongs to those that believe
in it the most and believe in it the
longest.
- Randall Wallace
For victory in life, we've got to keep
focused on the goal, and the goal is
Heaven.
- Coach Lou Holtz
Stand by Me
When the storms of life are raging, stand by me.
When the storms of life are raging, stand by me.
When the world is tossing me, like a ship upon the sea,
thou who rulest wind and water, stand by me.
In the midst of tribulation, stand by me.
In the midst of tribulation, stand by me.
When the hosts of hell assail, and my strength begins to fail,
thou who never lost a battle, stand by me.
In the midst of faults and failures, stand by me.
In the midst of faults and failures, stand by me.
When I do the best I can, and my friends misunderstand,
thou who knowest all about me, stand by me.
In the midst of persecution, stand by me.
In the midst of persecution, stand by me.
When my foes in battle array, undertake to stop my way,
thou who saved Paul and Silas, stand by me.
When I'm growing old and feeble, stand by me.
When I'm growing old and feeble, stand by me.
When my life becomes a burden, and I'm nearing chilly Jordan,
O thou Lily of the Valley, stand by me.
- Charles Albert Tindley (1905)
Dixie Putman Allison
2/14/42 – 10/18/20
A lot of good living in that dash.
This is not the end.
“The Best is Yet to Be”
- James Stowers
Founder of the American Century Mutual Funds
This has been a favorite motto of mine for many years and
It is especially true for the Christian!
The Best is Yet to Be for Dixie …
“Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.”
(Psalm 62:8)
If there ever was a day when we needed someone to help us it is today and this verse tells us that God is our refuge … we can pour out our hearts to Him. He is there for us…
“What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.”
- Pericles
Hers was a life well lived …
A Life of Faith …
We just heard her favorite song …
“O How I love Jesus”
Over the last 3 weeks Lisa would sing this song
And Dixie would join in when she could.
We sang it on Sunday morning just before she passed.
She loved Jesus and Jesus loved her and everyone else she knew loved her too…
If everyone in America loved Jesus like Dixie Putman Allison did, we would not have the problems we are facing in this nation today!
She lived her life by this book I hold in my hand … It is one of her Bibles …
(Matthew 22:37-39)
Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great commandment.
“And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Hers was a life well lived …
A Life of Family …
Whatever role God gave her she played it well …
Daughter, Sister, Wife, Mother, Aunt, Deacon’s wife, Grand-mother
She was a faithful and loving wife to Andrew. They stood by each other in sickness and in health.
Tuesday Oct. 20th would have been there 58th Wedding Anniversary.
She loved her family and they all loved her…
She especially loved the Christmas holidays where the family would gather on Christmas eve. It was the high-light of the year! Even though Granny Dixie is gone … will carry-on because the little ones still need Christmas memories …
She loved Lisa, Allison and Daniel, Sue (Aaron) and Frankie (Marilyn) James Deanna and Jake, Bradley Courtney and Jack much …
Hers was a life well lived …
A Life of Friends …
(Prov.18:24)
The good book says …
“A man who has friends must
Himself be friendly,
But there is a friend who
Sticks closer than a brother.”
She loved her special friends … Rod, Kathy, Irma, Guy Boy, and Nick just to name a few …
She loved her church family at Macedonia Church of Christ … she loved Bro. James & Sister Amanda and every one of her brothers and sisters in Christ.
The family are very thankful for the way you stood by Dixie and helped her when she needed it.
I want to thank all of the Health Care Professionals who provided medical care for Dixie these past 13 mths.
I want to thank those who cared for Dixie from Florence Cancer Center, Encompass Home Health Care and Compassus Hospice & Palliative Care. They all did an outstanding job.
I want to thank Lisa for standing by her mother and providing round the clock care these past 4 weeks.
We want to thank everyone in Dixie & Andrew’s family who helped Lisa in any way in taking care of her mother.
I believe I can sum up Dixie’s Life with this song co- written by one of her favorite singers …
My Life's Been Grand
My
life's been grand
I been a hand at livin' it up all the way
I've had good times and bad times
And hard times and done time
But life's been a blessing every day.
My
life's been grand
You know I'd write home and tell 'em
But they wouldn't believe
How good my good luck's been
And if it ended today
I've been all the way
My life's been grand.
Written - Merle Haggard/Terry Gordon
https://www.morrisonfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Dixie-Allison-2/
Does Jesus Care?
"Casting all your care upon Him,
For He cares for you”
(1 Peter 5:7).
DOES JESUS CARE?
Does Jesus care when my heart is pained
Too deeply for mirth or song,
As the burdens press, and the cares distress
And the way grows weary and long?
Does Jesus care when my way is dark
With a nameless dread and fear?
As the daylight fades into deep night shades,
Does He care enough to be near?
Does Jesus care when I’ve tried and failed
To resist some temptation strong;
When for my deep grief there is no relief,
Though my tears flow all the night long?
Does Jesus care when I’ve said goodbye
To the dearest on earth to me,
And my sad heart aches till it nearly breaks,
Is it aught to Him? Does He see?
Refrain
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,
His heart is touched with my grief;
When the days are weary,
the long nights dreary,
I know my Savior cares.
Words – Frank E. Graeff (1901)
Music – J. Lincoln Hall
Graeff went through some very difficult trials.
The period before writing this song was one of great despondency,
doubt and physical pain.
When he turned to God’s Word, 1 Peter 5:7 gave wonderful
comfort ...
He cares for you.
After meditating on that truth, Graeff wrote these lyrics,
with the resounding affirmation in the chorus, O yes, He cares…
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