His Birthday

I met him in 1967.

My folks had started to go to a new church, Hillside, in Armonk, NY.  And I went along with them when I was home from college.

His family had been one of the original members and he, while going to Columbia in NYC, was active in church on Sundays.  Singing in the choir, ushering, and helping his mom with her Sunday School attendance records, working with the men on the church building.

He invited me, by formal invitation, to a semi formal dinner at a restaurant in White Plains when I would be home for the holidays.

He was tall, thin, handsome, intelligent, kind and awkward.  But most of all he was a strong Christian whose commitment to the Lord, his family and local  church body was evident.

We didn't fall in love immediately, well, I didn't.

A move to Boston and increasing number of dates and fun activities sealed the deal for me.  He was the one!

We were married December 2, 1972.  Lived in the community that our folks resided while he did his residency in NYC.

So I've known him for 47 years!  Wow!

I'm proud of him.  He has always been a person full of integrity and honor.  He is the kindest person I know.  Still making house calls for those who find it difficult getting to the office after surgery.  He didn't try to make a "name" for himself  but tried to help all that came to him with their symptoms, large or small, in the two communities where we have lived.  He's one of the most generous people I know, not only with his family but those in our community, and abroad.  He still has a very dry sense of humor and sometimes I don't get his whit or jokes, I think his synapses are clicking too fast for me!  I know my vocabulary has increased since living with him and pretty much every question I ask about history, especially British history, he can answer.  He can hang a picture, do construction, plumbing and electrical work.

But most of all, he is still reading his Bible at 5:00 in the morning.  Faithfulness.

Proverb 20:6,7  "A faithful man who can find?  The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him"

Happy Birthday!  68 years!