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Folk artist
Don Cochran's Art Gallery |
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Paintings, sculptured high relief murals, backdrops,
folk art, fine art, landscapes, waterfalls, wall murals on canvas and other
paintings by Georgia's Folk and Master Scenic Artist Don Cochran for church,
business and home. |
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One Sunday evening, I was sitting
on the sofa with the Bible on my lap, waiting to go to church. Linda was
in the kitchen boiling bottles for the baby's milk, mother was in her bedroom
trying on some shoes to match a beautiful blue dress that Ronald had given
her that day. I open my bible to St. John in the New Testament . In the
first verse I begin to read "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with
God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made
that was made". I was reading for the first time! I'm not sure if I
had heard these words many times from the preachers or if this was God's
clever way of teaching me to believe in myself. But I gave God the credit.
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Ronald my twin brother walked into the living
room where I was sitting and asked me what I was doing?. With tears rolling
down my cheek, I replied, " reading, God is teaching me to read."
He said," you can't read. Let me hear you?" I repeated what I
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He yelled through the house Donald
is reading! He's reading! Donald is reading the Bible! My wife, mother and
my other brothers came to see what the commotion was about. One of them
said, "Ah, you're just reading that by heart." And then he reached
and turn to another page somewhere in the Bible and said," read that!"
And I read that, and he turn to another page and pointed to another verse
and said again for me to read it. And I read that, and I kept on reading
just the Bible at first, then the newspapers and other books. |
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Later on I purchased the Talking Bible albums.
I would put on a record and sit back and read along with Alexander Scourby.
We started at the beginning and read to the end, and when we got through
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