I Want To Be Like Billy
All three of them
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Psalms 25:4
God sends special people into our lives for us to learn from. Today, I’d like to tell you about three very special ones He sent my way.
Judge Billy Meck was my Sunday school teacher when I was ten. I didn’t spend a lot of time with him, but he left a lasting impression on me. I remember him as one of the kindest, perpetually happy men I’ve ever encountered. I want to be kind and always happy like Billy.
Another Billy who left a lasting impression on me was my little brother, Billy Ray Mashburn, who died at fourteen in a car accident two weeks before I graduated high school. Billy Ray could look at you with those big blue eyes—fighting back a smile, so as not to crack his forever chapped lips—and you couldn’t help but smile back at him. Billy Ray loved everybody and everybody loved Billy Ray. I want to love and be loved like Billy.
My oldest son, Billy (he goes by Bill these days, being grown up and all) is the Billy I admire these days. I don’t know anyone who can match his work ethic or his love for his family. He’s a good man, a good husband, and the most devoted father I have ever seen. I am so very proud of my son. I want to be a good man like Billy.
I’m working on it.
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Gary said
I like that one Charlie. Judge Meck was a very friendly man and your little brother was something else.
charlesmashburn said
Thanks, Gary. I think you’d like my son, Billy, too.
Sherry Mashburn said
You are a good man, a loving/loved man, and a kind man . . . you ARE like Billy, and I love you.
charlesmashburn said
Thank you, my sweet darlin! I try.