DADDY RICHARD  use to tell me this... " when you play the piano for the "CHUCH",  don't do it because you think you have to.  Don't do it because the people said "you sound good.  Don't do it because you might get a little money.  Please don't do it because you think no one else can".  

DADDY RICHARD said... "PLAY THE PIANO FOR THE "CHUCH" BECAUSE YOU LOVE TO DO IT!   IF YOU LOVE TO DO IT THEN YOU ARE DOING IT FOR LOVE".

DADDY RICHARD... I LOVE to play the piano because  I'M DOING IT FOR LOVE!

THANK YOU DADDY RICHARD FOR YOUR WISDOM. 

I was 25 when my husband and I were pregnant with our first child Jevonya, I went to Belhaven and was sharing my news with my family,  Daddy Richard looked at me and said yo think you grown now. I really did not know what to say, so I said  I think so.   I will never forget that moment

  When I told Daddy Richard I was pregnant with Gerry, He said " Do What?"


After Leon and I had been married about 20 some years, one day he looked in the room where we were sleeping and said "Leon what are you doing laying in the bed with my daughter?  

When Jewell was an infant and would be crying in the middle of the night, Daddy Richard would get up  and make a fire in the heater so Jewell would be warm.  He would say "Reen what's the matter with her, don't you khow what you are doing?


I was a teacher and a military wife, but never seemed to have enough money to last til the once a month payday.  I would find Daddy Richard the school where he was a janitor and would ask  "Daddy Richard, can you loan me $10 until payday.  He would pull out a big wad and say "Is that all you need?  I would say, well 20 would be better.  He would give me 10 more and say "Is that all you need?  I would tell Muh and we would laugh and she would say, Rick was always a soft spot for you.


Daddy Richard introduced my husband and me to the Lord at a very young age.  He also baptized us eaarly one Sunday morning.  To God Be The Glory.