The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

‘Place special emphasis on old friendship.’

I’m 41-years-old, and I can count exactly two people in this world who have been my friends for at least half of my entire life / Life.

Marge R. is one of them. I’ve known her for over 20 years now – pretty much my entire life / Life since I’ve been living here in Homestead. She was telling me all about God for much of that time. I just wasn’t listening very carefully. She never gave up on me. If it weren’t for her none of you reading this right now would know me today, and I wouldn’t know you. I wouldn’t be living here in Homestead. I have Lunch with her every few months or so. She’s one of the greatest ladies that I’ve ever met in my entire life / Life. I can write that knowing that she’ll never see this. She doesn’t know what a blog is. She doesn’t know how to go online. That’s fine. I prefer to tell her these things LIVE and in-person. It’s not like she hasn’t heard them all before.

The other person who I’ve actually been friends with longer than Marge R. currently lives near an Air Force Base in Colorado. He was my best (and pretty much only) friend when we were stationed together over in the U.K. about 21 to 22 years ago. I haven’t seen him in person since November 1987, but we’ve been keeping in touch consistently ever since then via Christmas cards, (pre-Internet) letters, and (modern-day) E-Mail.

While a few good lifelong friends came in to my life during the 1980s and 1990s I can sincerely state that I now have hundreds of close personal friends today that are praising, worshiping, living, loving, learning, obeying, and following Jesus Christ alongside with me. They are VIPs within our Life Pointe Church family. I believe that many of these ‘new’ friends will be lifelong friends who I shall live the rest of my Life with forever whether it’s near or far. I am currently living the greatest times of my Life, and you sitting right there reading this are truly part of it all. Hang On !  It just keeps getting better !