Mrs. Dowdy Said...: Homespun Theology of Folk Wisdom

Mrs. Dowdy was a woman of natural cures, a woman with a wistful-tongue language, and was one who had insightful intuitions. I remember Mrs. Dowdy. When she spoke in her quiet toned voice, everyone listened. Her wisdom was not to be surpassed by any means, yet America itself has a rich heritage of customs. That's what Mrs. Dowdy said.Ancestors would declare that "The Bible said..." even when the statement was not straight from the scriptures. Yet the wisdom was meant to wean us off bad habits or steer us onward to better lives than that of which they lived.Studying some of the renditions though, it appeared to me that, with all good intentions, the elderly had profoundly studied the words of the Bible, listened to the preacher on Sunday mornings, and combined mental brawns, wit, and understanding with their own application of ruling their household. The followings are only few of so many statements and procedures for how they related to the true word of God, Jesus or The Holy Spirit.