The Musician Taken from the Sheepcote part 1

The Musician Taken from the Sheepcote part 1 

       2 Samuel 7:8, “Now therefore so shalt thou say unto thy servant David, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel.”  Every time I read this Scripture about King David’s beginnings, I think of myself.  I was raised on an eighty acre farm five miles east of Fort Scott, Kansas about a mile and a half west of the Missouri state line.  No one in my family background was an important person.  As they say in Kansas, I was born a “nobody of nobodies” and no one knew me from “Adam’s off ox” because I was the last child born to a crop farmer who ran a very small grade “C” dairy. 

       I grew up with my older sister Virginia and two older brothers David and Nathan.  When I was a little boy our family was very poor but our parents always put us first.  My brothers and I always went to school with starched jeans and spotlessly clean clothes!  We always had plenty to eat and the very best of what our parents possessed.  Since we always had what we needed, we did not know how really poor we were.         Dad worked on the farm and off of the farm as a painter and carpenter.  My mother worked at the hospital as a nurse’s aide, and later after we were raised, she went back to college and became a licensed practical nurse.