I like John Mellencamp’s song, “Small Town.” I’ve posted the lyrics below. City folk are different than small town folk. I'm a city girl with a small-town heart. A community like the Amish look out for each other’s needs. If your tree falls down and you live in the country, your neighbor will come and help you chop it up. In city life, you usually have to do it yourself or hire someone. I know because I had a tree fall down in my yard. I was listening to the evening news and the #1 town for overall satisfaction was a small town when someone lost their job, people pitched in and helped a person in need. We don’t have that type of life style anymore like the early church, we live separate lives.
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. Acts 4:32
All the believers were together and had everything in common. Acts 2:44
I know some neighborhoods where people move in the neighborhood they have a welcoming committee. When we get to heaven God has not left off the welcoming committee. If you ever read the book, 90 Minutes in Heaven about the minister who died in a car crash for about 90 minutes, went to heaven and came back, he spoke that when you arrive at the gates of heaven, there is a welcoming committee to the neighborhood of heaven. No one in heaven will give you a “cold shoulder” like you may have received in your neighborhood or at church. I gage churches and Bible studies by how friendly they are. If I’ve been attending for 3-6 months and I’m missed when I am out of town on vacation that is a good sign I’m in the right church. One person said they wanted to be missed from their seat in church like being missed from their bar stool in a TV episode of Cheers. It’s great to get a hug or handshake in the house of God. I’m always looking for those Georgia peach personalities in the churches I attend. Those who have that down home feeling that make you feel welcome.
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Psalm 84:10
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, Matthew 25:35
My husband was a volunteer in our home owner’s subdivision for eleven years. We had phone calls at times at 2:00 a.m. about snow removal even when he had already left that position. It was because they knew his phone number from all the other homeowner’s board officer jobs he did for the homeowners. He was handing off his title the very month he passed away as president of the home owner’s board. That was time away from our family and me. Firemen and policemen lose their lives in the line of duty and that may have been someone’s husband or father. Firemen lost their lives during 9/11. There are several volunteer job positions such as firemen, missions, Salvation Army, United Way agencies, Society for the Blind, Goodwill that helps create jobs, they used to have candy stripers in hospitals, many non-profit organizations have volunteers or underpay their workers, and law breakers are required to do volunteer work as part as community service. I realize that my husband did this as a service activity from his heart.
Praise God it was worth a homeowner coming over when my husband passed away plowing my sidewalk once and mums from the neighbors! I spoke to a widow who had moved into a new neighborhood where she barely knew people so when her husband passed away she did not get any help at all. She made a comment to me that if anyone ever does a kind deed in society she will be “pleasantly pleased” and not to expect anything from anyone. I did not wear my coat at work early in the week and I had to walk across campus to another building and it was very cold. It was colder than I expected that day. It’s the same experience I have now with being widowed. People at church, in the community, at work are colder than I expected.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. Matthew 24:12
What happened when Joseph passed away in Egypt is they had a new king who did not know that Joseph saved Egypt and the surrounding community from famine. There are new homeowners that don’t remember my husband’s service or some people don’t really care that he volunteered 11 years in the subdivision. So here is the solution: rather than getting upset about it and becoming part of the problem, I become part of the solution. I reach out to others for their lack and do what others are not doing. I could cop an attitude if I get remarried that my husband is not volunteering for anyone or anything ever again and being taken away from my time with him, or I trust the Lord that God is going to give me back for the lost time I had with my spouse that he volunteered in helping others.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another Psalm 75-6-7
At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality. as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little." 2 Cor. 8:14-14
Do we know what is going on in our brothers and sisters in Christ life, people at our church, and our immediate neighborhood?
Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Mark 12:33 & The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Galatians 5:14
Romans 15:2-4: Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
I had a Christian neighbor’s husband on my block who offered to help me if I needed anything, but he was just “being polite.” When I humbled myself to ask his help, he declined.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. 1 Peter 1:22
We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love.
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Romans 12:9
Like my mother who was widowed, who did not like to ask me or anyone else for help, I never liked asking my parents for a handout or anyone for help. My dad was a handyman as far as fixing anything around the house and our cars. My sister was married to a mechanic. I also had a husband who looked out for me and took care of my needs and repairs around the house. God’s word says we are to look after orphans and widows and I know that is especially elderly widows.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27
Now, like most widows, I have to depend on other people for some things I can’t fix myself. My sister when she was widowed at age 42 years old, learned to build her own deck, helped a carpenter build a second story on her house, shingled her roof and our parent's roof. She taught me to wall paper, refinish furniture and install ceramic tile. I painted houses in a former marriage with my husband so I learned how to paint the inside and outside of a house and I had a friend’s wife who was an auto mechanic so I changed valve cover gaskets, but determined being a grease monkey was “not my calling.” I’ve got some amazing Amazon single parent women friends who cut wood with their chain saws, put up fences and my niece changed the starter on my van and did her own car repairs at times. I like the poster of the woman with the strong arm, “We Can Do It!” I find I can do it (make it in life) a lot better with God’s help and his angels (people) than on my own!
Lately, the new Homeowners Board has become like Satan in my life as far as whenever I don't conform to their rules and regulations they go around and make notes and then I get a letter. I went on vacation and received a letter because my trash cans were out two days longer than they are supposed to be, a letter for not trimming the long grass around my mailbox and trees when my weed wacker broke, a letter for having two hot tub covers (one sitting on my deck they called it a mattress) and a letter about that fallen tree. There have been a variety of letters I've received over the last three years since I've been widowed. Other neighbors have complained about letters too for putting up the wrong type of mailbox.
When, I mess up in life I know the enemy is right there to remind me how I've done wrong. Satan condemns me, God's spirit convicts and the conviction is through His word. I went out to eat for my husband's anniversary at Outback Steakhouse and by the time we ate some samples since the wait was an hour and the main meal took about 30 minutes, the blooming onion, a salad and bread, we were then too full to eat the dinner, our meat and potatoes. If I fill up with other things in my life on a daily basis, than I'm too full to want or desire more of God in my life. I'm filled up with the things of this world and then won't desire the things of God (my meat and potatoes). I'm to be conformed to the image of my heavenly Father, not the image of this world. Feeding off what the world has to offer will conform me to this world's way of thinking.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 1 Peter 1:14
If we live by our spiritual nature, then our lives need to conform to our spiritual nature. Galatians 5:25
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
God is omnipresent/all knowing and yet God asked Cain a proverbial question:
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Genesis 4:9-10
God was not down on Cain because he made a wrong sacrifice/turn in life. Cain missed the basket as far giving the ground as a sacrifice that was cursed rather than a blood offering of an animal, but God promised he would be accepted if he continued to do right. I’ve missed the basket as a Christian and we sin at times. I’ve asked God to forgive me and 1 John 1:9.
But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, Genesis 4:4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead. Hebrews 11:4
In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it." Genesis 4:3-7
We have the favor of God in our lives through the offering of Jesus Christ. In walking out the Christian walk daily….when the rubber meets the road…there are things in our lives that can be pleasing to God or displeasing to God. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God's approval (favor). 1 Cor. 11:19
Both Saul and David, the children of Israel in the wilderness, Noah, and others were examples of what pleases and displeases God. God is pleased when we bear much fruit, love one another, do not complain, be thankful, faith pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). When I get a thank you from my children, my husband when I was married, or my manager at work, it makes life easier as far as not being taken for granted. Here are scriptures on pleasing God:
Hebrews 13:16: …and do not forget to do good and share with others for with such sacrifices, God is pleased.
Romans 12:1-2: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Micah 6:8: He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
I Timothy 5:4: But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
I Timothy 2:1-3: I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior,
Colossians 1:10-13: And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work….
Galatians 6:7-8: Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
I Thessalonians. 4:1-12: Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Small Town by John Mellencamp
Well I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Prob'ly die in a small town
Oh, those small communities
All my friends are so small town
My parents live in the same small town
My job is so small town
Provides little opportunity
Educated in a small town
Taught to fear Jesus in a small town
Used to daydream in that small town
Another born romantic that's me
But I've seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town
Married an L.A. doll and brought her to this small town
Now she's small town just like me
No I cannot forget where it is that I come from
I cannot forget the people who love me
Yeah, I can be myself here in this small town
And people let me be just what I want to be
Got nothing against a big town
Still hayseed enough to say
Look who's in the big town
But my bed is in a small town
Oh, and that's good enough for me
Well I was born in a small town
And I can breathe in a small town
Gonna die in this small town
And that's prob'ly where they'll bury me
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. Acts 4:32
All the believers were together and had everything in common. Acts 2:44
I know some neighborhoods where people move in the neighborhood they have a welcoming committee. When we get to heaven God has not left off the welcoming committee. If you ever read the book, 90 Minutes in Heaven about the minister who died in a car crash for about 90 minutes, went to heaven and came back, he spoke that when you arrive at the gates of heaven, there is a welcoming committee to the neighborhood of heaven. No one in heaven will give you a “cold shoulder” like you may have received in your neighborhood or at church. I gage churches and Bible studies by how friendly they are. If I’ve been attending for 3-6 months and I’m missed when I am out of town on vacation that is a good sign I’m in the right church. One person said they wanted to be missed from their seat in church like being missed from their bar stool in a TV episode of Cheers. It’s great to get a hug or handshake in the house of God. I’m always looking for those Georgia peach personalities in the churches I attend. Those who have that down home feeling that make you feel welcome.
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Psalm 84:10
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, Matthew 25:35
My husband was a volunteer in our home owner’s subdivision for eleven years. We had phone calls at times at 2:00 a.m. about snow removal even when he had already left that position. It was because they knew his phone number from all the other homeowner’s board officer jobs he did for the homeowners. He was handing off his title the very month he passed away as president of the home owner’s board. That was time away from our family and me. Firemen and policemen lose their lives in the line of duty and that may have been someone’s husband or father. Firemen lost their lives during 9/11. There are several volunteer job positions such as firemen, missions, Salvation Army, United Way agencies, Society for the Blind, Goodwill that helps create jobs, they used to have candy stripers in hospitals, many non-profit organizations have volunteers or underpay their workers, and law breakers are required to do volunteer work as part as community service. I realize that my husband did this as a service activity from his heart.
Praise God it was worth a homeowner coming over when my husband passed away plowing my sidewalk once and mums from the neighbors! I spoke to a widow who had moved into a new neighborhood where she barely knew people so when her husband passed away she did not get any help at all. She made a comment to me that if anyone ever does a kind deed in society she will be “pleasantly pleased” and not to expect anything from anyone. I did not wear my coat at work early in the week and I had to walk across campus to another building and it was very cold. It was colder than I expected that day. It’s the same experience I have now with being widowed. People at church, in the community, at work are colder than I expected.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. Matthew 24:12
What happened when Joseph passed away in Egypt is they had a new king who did not know that Joseph saved Egypt and the surrounding community from famine. There are new homeowners that don’t remember my husband’s service or some people don’t really care that he volunteered 11 years in the subdivision. So here is the solution: rather than getting upset about it and becoming part of the problem, I become part of the solution. I reach out to others for their lack and do what others are not doing. I could cop an attitude if I get remarried that my husband is not volunteering for anyone or anything ever again and being taken away from my time with him, or I trust the Lord that God is going to give me back for the lost time I had with my spouse that he volunteered in helping others.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another Psalm 75-6-7
At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality. as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little." 2 Cor. 8:14-14
Do we know what is going on in our brothers and sisters in Christ life, people at our church, and our immediate neighborhood?
Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Mark 12:33 & The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Galatians 5:14
Romans 15:2-4: Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
I had a Christian neighbor’s husband on my block who offered to help me if I needed anything, but he was just “being polite.” When I humbled myself to ask his help, he declined.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. 1 Peter 1:22
We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love.
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Romans 12:9
Like my mother who was widowed, who did not like to ask me or anyone else for help, I never liked asking my parents for a handout or anyone for help. My dad was a handyman as far as fixing anything around the house and our cars. My sister was married to a mechanic. I also had a husband who looked out for me and took care of my needs and repairs around the house. God’s word says we are to look after orphans and widows and I know that is especially elderly widows.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27
Now, like most widows, I have to depend on other people for some things I can’t fix myself. My sister when she was widowed at age 42 years old, learned to build her own deck, helped a carpenter build a second story on her house, shingled her roof and our parent's roof. She taught me to wall paper, refinish furniture and install ceramic tile. I painted houses in a former marriage with my husband so I learned how to paint the inside and outside of a house and I had a friend’s wife who was an auto mechanic so I changed valve cover gaskets, but determined being a grease monkey was “not my calling.” I’ve got some amazing Amazon single parent women friends who cut wood with their chain saws, put up fences and my niece changed the starter on my van and did her own car repairs at times. I like the poster of the woman with the strong arm, “We Can Do It!” I find I can do it (make it in life) a lot better with God’s help and his angels (people) than on my own!
Lately, the new Homeowners Board has become like Satan in my life as far as whenever I don't conform to their rules and regulations they go around and make notes and then I get a letter. I went on vacation and received a letter because my trash cans were out two days longer than they are supposed to be, a letter for not trimming the long grass around my mailbox and trees when my weed wacker broke, a letter for having two hot tub covers (one sitting on my deck they called it a mattress) and a letter about that fallen tree. There have been a variety of letters I've received over the last three years since I've been widowed. Other neighbors have complained about letters too for putting up the wrong type of mailbox.
When, I mess up in life I know the enemy is right there to remind me how I've done wrong. Satan condemns me, God's spirit convicts and the conviction is through His word. I went out to eat for my husband's anniversary at Outback Steakhouse and by the time we ate some samples since the wait was an hour and the main meal took about 30 minutes, the blooming onion, a salad and bread, we were then too full to eat the dinner, our meat and potatoes. If I fill up with other things in my life on a daily basis, than I'm too full to want or desire more of God in my life. I'm filled up with the things of this world and then won't desire the things of God (my meat and potatoes). I'm to be conformed to the image of my heavenly Father, not the image of this world. Feeding off what the world has to offer will conform me to this world's way of thinking.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 1 Peter 1:14
If we live by our spiritual nature, then our lives need to conform to our spiritual nature. Galatians 5:25
Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
God is omnipresent/all knowing and yet God asked Cain a proverbial question:
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Genesis 4:9-10
God was not down on Cain because he made a wrong sacrifice/turn in life. Cain missed the basket as far giving the ground as a sacrifice that was cursed rather than a blood offering of an animal, but God promised he would be accepted if he continued to do right. I’ve missed the basket as a Christian and we sin at times. I’ve asked God to forgive me and 1 John 1:9.
But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, Genesis 4:4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead. Hebrews 11:4
In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it." Genesis 4:3-7
We have the favor of God in our lives through the offering of Jesus Christ. In walking out the Christian walk daily….when the rubber meets the road…there are things in our lives that can be pleasing to God or displeasing to God. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God's approval (favor). 1 Cor. 11:19
Both Saul and David, the children of Israel in the wilderness, Noah, and others were examples of what pleases and displeases God. God is pleased when we bear much fruit, love one another, do not complain, be thankful, faith pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). When I get a thank you from my children, my husband when I was married, or my manager at work, it makes life easier as far as not being taken for granted. Here are scriptures on pleasing God:
Hebrews 13:16: …and do not forget to do good and share with others for with such sacrifices, God is pleased.
Romans 12:1-2: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Micah 6:8: He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
I Timothy 5:4: But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
I Timothy 2:1-3: I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior,
Colossians 1:10-13: And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work….
Galatians 6:7-8: Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
I Thessalonians. 4:1-12: Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Small Town by John Mellencamp
Well I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Prob'ly die in a small town
Oh, those small communities
All my friends are so small town
My parents live in the same small town
My job is so small town
Provides little opportunity
Educated in a small town
Taught to fear Jesus in a small town
Used to daydream in that small town
Another born romantic that's me
But I've seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town
Married an L.A. doll and brought her to this small town
Now she's small town just like me
No I cannot forget where it is that I come from
I cannot forget the people who love me
Yeah, I can be myself here in this small town
And people let me be just what I want to be
Got nothing against a big town
Still hayseed enough to say
Look who's in the big town
But my bed is in a small town
Oh, and that's good enough for me
Well I was born in a small town
And I can breathe in a small town
Gonna die in this small town
And that's prob'ly where they'll bury me
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