A Broken Family

                                                   

                  At or about the age of twenty-seven, Charley's little sister, Candy left the church of like, 

precious, faith, that they had been brought up in for the church of the Open Door.  This of course, hurt

her mother, Sandy a lot for she felt the family circle had been broken.  Candy had done this with her 

older sister's blessing.  Candy had not asked her brother Charley for fear she knew what he would have 

told her.  Charley just kept his mouth shut, because he couldn't make her go to a church like she had 

been raised in.

                  Charley did not know much about the church of the Open Door.  All he knew is that they 

accepted many different beliefs, and that they were Baptist.  If that is what Candy wanted it would 

break the family up, but he could not stop her.  He, however, would remain in a church like he was 

raised in.  He felt the faith he was raised in would get him to heaven, but he did not know about 

Candy. 

                 Many was the time that their Mother Sandy would question, would the family have broken 

in the afterlife.  Candy had left the church of their faith due to the fact that someone had corrected her 

children due to their use of language.  Candy's father said he hated it when one of his siblings corrected 

us kids.

                   Truth be known Candy was just looking for a reason to leave the church.  Correcting her 

children were just giving her a reason to leave.  Charley tried to seek out evangelical help for his sister

only to get told they had been escorted off of her property by the police.  This of course hurt Charley 

deeply.

                    Their Mother Sandy then passed away, and all three of the children had to come home

putting their differences aside.  They went to a church of like precious faith, like they had been raised 

in.  Once they all went back home the oldest daughter stopped going to church with their father, and 

started playing church up in the mountains.  Candy continued going to the church of the Open Door.  

Charley continued going to church at a like precious faith.  In the end the family had been spiritually

divided.

Paul D. Eccles