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The Wedding Slideshow

Thank you, dear friends, for your prayers and support over the past few years.  Last month, January, we witnessed The Lord's restoration as our daughter, Carrie, married Paul in San Diego.  I collected my favorite photos and assembled them in a slideshow.  We haven't received the photographer's photos yet; those will come later!  Enjoy! The Wedding - create a slideshow with music

Love in a Brown Paper Bag

I had no idea that my daughter, Amy, would weep when I shared a tidbit from the book I was currently reading.   She was driving on the interstate climbing a mountain and passing semi’s when I thought I better change the subject because her eyes were full of tears.   She made me promise that I would write a post about this and tell everybody what I shared with her. An Invisible Thread is a true story about Laura Schroff, a successful advertising executive, who meets eleven-year-old Maurice, a panhandler.   When he told her he was hungry she took him to McDonald's and a life-long friendship evolved.   The book is chock full of life’s lessons.   My favorite was the one I shared with Amy about the brown paper bag.   Maurice, raised in a drug infested home was rarely fed and mostly hungry.   Laura wanted to provide lunch money so at least he could eat one meal a day at school.   He said he didn’t want money.   He wanted lunch in a brown paper bag.   He said the kid