To Everything There is a Season

 

A. A. Miller Dam
above DeSoto Falls

"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

In August of 1943, my parents honeymooned at Summer Haven, a small cottage overlooking DeSoto Falls in Mentone, Alabama.

The owner of the cabin, Mr. Arthur Abernathy Miller, built the hydroelectric A. A. Miller Dam just above the falls in 1925, which supplied power to Mentone, Fort Payne, Collinsville, Valley Head, Alabama and Menlo, Georgia. For strength and endurance, the self-educated engineer embedded railroad tracks into the bedrock and designed the dam with flying buttresses copied from the Notre Dam Cathedral.

In the 1960s, my brothers' eighth-grade math teacher was Mrs. Isabell Miller Lawrance, Mr. Miller's daughter.

Yesterday, I had a surprise call from Christina Wise, Mrs. Lawrances' daughter-in-law. She and her husband, Bill, now live at Summer Haven where may parents honeymooned seventy-seven years ago.

Our times are in God's hands, beloved. Trust Him.