May 12, 2008
Six Dollars Worth of God THE LAID-BACK LIFE STYLE of the 1950s in a small Alabama town was a great time and place to be a teenager. One of those joys was my first car, a 1949 Ford. Each day I would go to the local service station and put twenty-five cents worth of gasoline in my highly esteemed vehicle, which would purchase enough to get by for that day. In today’s economy that would be about six dollars. I was living by a principle that said only spend and give what you must and keep the rest in reserve,