CHETH, My Portion
GOOD SON-DAY!!!! SOUTHSIDE GIRL PERSONIFIED CHETH – MY PORTION In the early 70’s coming up in the old school church, you know the church where practically your entire weekend was sitting in the church basement watching your mother participate in choir practice, cooking pies, mac & cheese, and cakes in the basement church kitchen. Food you would never see the light of day because it was other church families. After this effort, some of the saints would assemble in the sanctuary pews and start talking about families, recipes, and of course, as I remember, the Lawd. One of the catch phrases, I would hear tossed every so often was, “Lord, He is my portion”. I was like what???? Is Lord parceled out like a spoon full of mashed potatoes? Later in life, I heard the same phrase again. I did not understand and did not question. To me it was church cannon, that is, a collection of church phrases that are considered to be autho...