A friendly stranger agreed to snap a photo of us at the top of Arch Rock on our Silver Anniversary.
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Bair Lake Bible Camp
Lois and I are celebrating twenty-five years of marriage on Wednesday. We are off on a little get-away tomorrow, Lord willing.
We are back from a weekend at Bair Lake Bible Camp. It was a family camp and the group was very open and receptive. We made new friends and enjoyed beautiful weather. I had plenty of time to spend with the family. The camp has a nice pool so the boys have exhausted themselves swimming. Last night they crashed into bed spent and red from the sun, their eyes puffy from chlorine. They went to sleep with contented smiles on their faces. So did I.
September 6, 2004 (Monday)
Good Intentions and Good Sense
Once the older boys and I spent some time doing some odd jobs for a widow. She asked me to get gravel to create bases for some large concrete yard statuary.
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Rejection
A wise man recently told me the secret to overcoming feelings of rejection. He said something like this: “Always know that you have something valuable to give and you will not feel rejected. If you had a stack of one hundred dollar bills to give away you would not care if someone did not want to talk to you, you would just go to the next person.
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Taste and See
We live in downtown Flint, Michigan. It’s really not the kind of place where folks chat over the backyard fence and swap garden produce and gossip. On the street in downtown Flint, people don’t usually speak to you until you speak to them. Sometimes they don’t speak to you even when you do speak to them. Sometimes what people say when they do speak to you makes you wish you hadn’t spoken to them. But sometimes the sun of humanity breaks through the clouds of anonymity even here in Flint. That happened this week.
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Thinking and Feeling
Sometimes I don’t think. I always feel but sometimes I just don’t think. It is common for me to drive right past the entrance to a restaurant two or three times before it dawns on me what I am doing. I sort of “feel” my way through life and forget to think.
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