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When Little Became Much
A Journey from Obscurity to
Significance
Thank you for choosing to walk into my
world, the Mississippi Delta. I was born during the era of legal
segregation. World War II was over and life in the American South had
changed very little. "Jim Crow"-the system that supported legal
segregation-was firmly entrenched. It was no different in my small hometown
of Glen Allan, Mississippi. It was a cotton community where most of what we
did was defined by that world. It was in that world of rigid laws and social
restrictions that my life began. The difficulties of growing up in such an
environment are well documented, from restricted social movement to hideous
acts of racism. Yet it was there among the people I call the "porch
people"-ordinary people who used their front porches to welcome our lives,
to hold their informal meetings, and yes, to dream about our future-that I
also experienced an incredible sense of community. God showed up in the
unselfishness of the ordinary people who became extra-ordinary leaders in
the stories that I would write into best-selling cultural biographies.
Like the boy with five In this simple telling of No matter how small an
-Prologue, When
Little Becomes Much
When a small book by the name of Once Upon a
Time When We Were Colored tumbled out upon the table of public scrutiny,
author Clifton Taulbert had no idea how God would use his small offering.
loaves and two fishes, a brown-bag lunch in the hands of Jesus became a
feast of contentment and hope for thousands.
how unknowing obedience to God had a global impact upon untold numbers of
lives, Clifton Taulbert once again shares the themes of life and faith and
hope that transformed his future.
offering you have, when you follow that God-nudge in your heart, you will
begin a journey that takes little and turns it into much. From Glen Allan,
Mississippi, to the Capitol building and beyond the seas, follow author
Clifton Taulbert's story of what God can do with a small bag of food for the
hungry heart.
