God has given me a special gift.
He has given me the grace of attracting the best.
My first wife, who passed away in 2008, set her sights on me 8 months before our first date, when both of us were dating others. Upon seeing me, she told her best friend "That is the man I'm going to marry!"
8 months later, on our first date, she gave me a kiss, and told me that she loved me. After 15 days of confusion on my part, I told her that I loved her, and I asked her to marry me. We were married for 40 years.
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| Lynne, (on the left) with her best friend Geri, about the time that we first met. This was the stunning outfit she wore. |
I have some of the most talented and faithful friends a man could ever possess. I blamed a lot that on my late wife Lynne, but that doesn't explain how Mary came into my life, and it doesn't explain you, my new friends on the internet.
Only the special gift and grace of attracting the best can explain why you are reading this now.
Many of you have had far more successful careers than mine. Many of you are far more adept at writing, poetry, photography, and the skills necessary to navigate this new internet world than I am.
Yet here you are, reading my blog.
I have prayed for you. I have prayed God would rain down grace on your every step. I have prayed that grace would well out of your heart like an unstoppable flood, and the the lives you are touching will smell the aroma of the frankincense and myrrh of our Crucified Christ.
(This was an excerpt from my blog and future book Clarity, Threads of Grace, and Riding Shotgun With Jesus: The Power of the Story
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