Rev Ed Adams
This past weekend my wife’s Uncle Edward lost his battle with cancer but his faith will win the war over death and we’ll see him again. Edward Adams was a country minister dedicating his life to service in small churches all across the southeast. When I joined this family a number of years ago Uncle Edward was one of the interesting people I got to know. At the family gatherings he always seemed to be the center of attention at least until he said grace and we could get to the food. He had a love for the outdoors and he and I often swapped stories about hunting and fishing. I never got to actually hunt or fish with him but the stories we shared were special.
The story that has been sticking out in my mind this week was one he told me at Christmas a while back about how he’d gotten a deer that year. It seems he was driving home after visiting some sick folks at one of the local hospitals when he spotted a buck feeding in a small field behind a house. He stopped at the house and went up to the door and knocked on it. A woman answered the door and he introduced himself and then asked her if she minded him hunting in the field behind her house. I guess cause he was a minister she told him that be fine. That in and of itself is pretty funny but what he did next to me was hilarious but it’s within his character to do. He asked the woman if he could borrow her bathroom to change into his hunting clothes. After changing he went out there and snuck up on that buck and killed it.
That story brings a smile to my face every time I think about it and seeing a deer standing in a field near a farmhouse brings it to mind often.
Uncle Edward loved the outdoors ; chasing rabbits, surf fishing at Carolina beach, hunting turkeys in South Carolina. I’m going to miss him and I’ll miss hearing his tails of adventure in God’s great outdoors. His love for the Creator who made this world and his desire to teach others about God’s Love is even more important. I hope and pray that you have Peace With God like Uncle Edward did and I do.
