Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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My prayers and deepest sympathies to Ethelda, Beth, Kari-Lynn, and your families:
I am now married to a Lutheran pastor myself, and as we celebrated baptisms and confirmations in our congregation this past Sunday, I was sharing my stories and memories about Pastor Anderson, who confirmed me back in June of 1976 - of our hard work in confirmation class, our assignments of writing our own gospel, and co-writing a sermon (with Don Neher and Jack Kroszer) and presenting it to the congregation. I have the fondest memories of happy hours spent visiting at the manse in Markinch (I live in one myself now), of my friendship with Kari-Lynn, of Ethelda's best ever smoked ham and pea soup, and I remember Woofie the dog. I now realize Pastor Anderson was obviously very patient and kind with us, as he worked in his home office while we had tea parties in the same veranda space - let's say I now better understand the effort put into sermon writing. Every day when I open my Bible, given to me at my confirmation, I admire Ethelda's beautiful printing on the inside cover. I thought of that this weekend as I lettered and filled in calligraphy on all the certificates here, as I am now our church's secretary.
What a joy to know that we will all have a great reunion in heaven, along with all our beloved saints who have passed!
May God keep you in the palm of His hand and safe in the faith until we meet again.
