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To: average joe who wrote (477570)	3/20/2012 6:30:01 AM
From: Farmboy	Respond to of 794501

That is true. I heard it a million times.

To: average joe who wrote (477570)	3/20/2012 12:23:37 PM
From: Bridge Player	3 Recommendations Respond to of 794501

"And never say of anything, 'I shall do such and such thing tomorrow. Except (with the saying): 'If God wills!' I remember an old saying my family used when I was growing up: "God willing and the creek don't rise." Here's an interesting story about it's origin. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can you tell me the origin of the phrase 'God willing and the creek don't rise' Joel Waite Joel Benjamin Hawkins, and the phrase would be correctly written as 'God willing and the Creek don't rise'. Hawkins, college-educated and a well-written man would never have made a grammatical error, the capitalization of the word Creek, which is a reference to the Creek Indians. If the Creek "rose", Hawkins would have to be present to quell the rebellion. Hawkins wrote the words in response to a request from President Thomas Jefferson to return to Washington D. C.. I believe that the phrase is somewhere in Hawkins preserved writings at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ngeorgia.com