Romans 12:18

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

While growing up on the banks of the Big Elkin Creek I found peace in listening to the water flow as it made it’s way down to the Yadkin. When all was not well, which was quiet often inside the walls of my home I would set out for the woods across from my house to the branch or down to the creek. My favorite place was at the end of Daddy’s bottomland. Here the Big Elkin…