Matt Davis
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This book is autobiographical in concept, as the author has had many experiences in life, in addition to his bouts with cancer and his subsequent survival. As the author brings his story to you in this book, his attempt is to present things in a sequence that explain them in the order of importance in his life. The author’s life was riddled with ups and downs from inception, because of the absence of his father and mother, but the best thing that happens to him is that he was raised by his loving and caring grandmother, Mandy. Although many of the situations and experiences he faced existed in his life in Alabama in 1930s, they still exist in African American families and their communities today. As a result, Matt has a keen sense of the value of education, which he learned from his grandmother Mandy and other life experiences during the time he lived in Alabama.
Matt’s years as a child growing up in rural Alabama during 1930s-50s, at best was turbulent times for young African American boys, yet he rode horses with his “white friend”, “J”, a White kid that lived nearby at the time. Because of Matt’s faith, taught to him by his grandmother Mandy, he was not afraid to take chances and try new things. At age 19 Matt went to work in Pensacola, Florida. Later that same year, he bought a 1939, pretty green Chevy. Matt was never deterred by life decisions, and still believes it is his faith that has brought him through many ordeals in his life. He has stepped out on “faith”, and prevailed in turning what would have toppled the average big city kid; but not Matt, he turns negatives into positives, and perseveres as he gets up again, and again.
Matt has developed an educational logo program, suited for the Departments of Education, to issue a national proclamation for use by all boards of education in the United States. He is the founder and director of the “Let’s Go to School Logos, Inc”. He has shown much courage, in his pursuit of national approval, for his educational logos and education is the key concept. The author has written to most, if not all major politicians, and three most recent presidents. His authority in his request for their support commanded their response, because he dared to challenge the politicians for whom he had voted, thinking that he deserved a constituent status reply and got one. During the later and more profound years of his life he has been riddled with ups and downs while dealing with cancer the worst of health concerns, but through many surgeries he has used up only a few of the prayers his grandmother Mandy stored up for him.
Through it all, according to the author, he has kept the faith. The moral of this story is “I have kept the faith through my belief in God’s Plan”. When “I get to heaven the first face I want to see is the face of God, and the second is the face of my beloved Grandma Mandy”, he said. He thinks grandma is going to ask, “Matt did you get an education”? Matt’s response to his grandma’s question is “it is contained in this book”. He will say, “I created educational logos for the classrooms in an effort, to enhance the education of others”. Although living my life in America has educated me in many skills of life, I am always seeking a higher learning and planning one day to return to school at the college level.
God’s View of Things
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The reason for writing this book is because I want people to know what faith can do for those who believe in God. “It is faith in “God’s View of Things” that gave my grandma the faith that got me this far. My Grandma Mandy strongly believed in education.
I believe that if I had gotten a formal education and Grandma was still living, I could have become the president of these United States of America. That is how strong her faith influences me and my God given purpose that leads me to promote education for all children. I am still praying the ageless prayer grandma prayed every Wednesday and Sunday as she woke me up to build a fire in the fireplace. I would gladly get out of my warm bed to make the fire she would use to prepare breakfast for the family every morning before she went to work. The family would kneel down on the bedside and she prayed the same prayer every time; those words were as follows: “My heavily father I thank you for another chance to pray and give thanks for your blessings dear lord. I ask you to come down and look over these watch walls of Zion, and see what sin and sorrow is doing with your children down here, and God I don’t know how to pray nor what to pray for. I ask you to throw your strong arms of protection around us, where no evil can harm us, and father, bless my grandson. Amen.” After my mother left the twins, Jessie Mae and Jesse Mack, to be raised by my grandmother, she would ask God to bless her grandchildren. I am still praying that eternal prayer today. I wish everyone could feel a part of me because I am a good example of what faith can do.
