WAITING

WAITING

Do you like to wait? Most of us would say no. By the time we pass away, we will have waited a total of six months of our life. Even the word wait brings us a bad feeling, makes us nervous and so stressed. The word wait means: “stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens” and “used to indicate that one is eagerly impatient to do something or for something to happen.” (Oxford Languages dictionary) What are some things we wait for? Meals to cook, responses to emails or texts, waiting for payday, we have all looked at the clock when waiting for someone or the end of the work day and thought, did the clock stop? We have all sat in the hospital surgery waiting room for a loved one. We have all said we couldn’t wait till we became older. Even our pets, wait for us to feed them or to get home. My daughter and my four grandkids in Norfolk, Va. have waited nine months for my Navy son-in-law to come home from deployment. (Praise God, he came home this week!)

Why do you think life and God makes us wait? Why do we not just automatically get what we want? Let’s look at a couple of possible reasons.

One reason is: waiting is necessary for our emotional and spiritual growth. Often waiting helps grow our character and build the patience muscles that help us embrace satisfaction for what we currently have. When we think of the word wait, it also involves patience. During my rough trials, there were so many years that I waited for so many prayers to be answered. But they never came. But now I can see that God was preparing me for my best future. My waiting helped me to grow into a strong woman who leans on God’s promises and knows He is in control for my best life. I have realized that part of the purpose for the rest of my life, is to tell my ten-year struggle, heartache, fatigue, bitterness of when my husband was mentally and physically sick. God prepared me to be a witness to others who are going through hard times. I can show them that God is by their side even when they don’t think He is. Times when we don’t think He has answered our prayers, like we think He should answer them. God gave me hope, comfort and peace even during the hardest times. I want others to know that God has a plan in their waiting, for their good and His purposes. If God brings you to it, God will bring you through it!

Another reason is: God is using your life to fulfill a purpose. Think about Joseph in the Old Testament. Joseph was sold by his brothers becoming an indentured servant to Potiphar. Potiphar’s wife tried to entice him to sin. He was falsely accused and thrown into prison. He waited and waited there to be released. He eventually got out and was made the governor of Egypt. Genesis 41:40 reads “You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.” It is thought that from the time he was put into the pit by his brothers and he provided food for his brothers who were in a period of famine, was about 25 years. Think about all these things that happened to Joseph in his life! God used Joseph’s life and the waiting he did, to save the Jewish nation from the famine that could have caused their annihilation from hunger. Genesis 45:5-8, after Joseph had revealed himself to his brothers, reads “…do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” God had a purpose in Joseph’s life and he remained faithful through his period of waiting!

Did you realize that wait-hope-faith-patience all work together? Those words of hope, faith and patience, don’t sound like they go together with the negative word waiting. Waiting is involved in active hope towards a confident expectation of a future, that you are holding faithfully to, during the waiting. Our faith in the goodness of God helps us to wait patiently! Psalm 27:13-14 “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!”  Philippians 3:20 “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”  

Most of the “major” people in the Bible waited for something. Abraham waited to obtain the promise of a son. Moses waited to lead the Israelites out of slavery. Joshua waited for the promised Land. Ruth waited for a husband. David waited to become king. Elijah waited for rain. Job waited for suffering to end. Paul waited for release from prison. These men and women waited in hopeful faith with patience while serving their families and those around them-they learned more about God in their waiting-they prayed from deep in their souls- they lived their lives the best they could in obedience to God while they waited for the promises that we actually still have today. We wait with earnest expectation for the day we can go be with God in heaven!

When we are young, we say we can’t wait until we get older. Then when we get older, we say we cannot wait until we leave this life to be with our Savior, away from the pain and evil in this world. But what we need to do, no matter if you are young or old, is to live your life in service and obedience to God! Life is unsure how long you will live. Be prepared while you are waiting!

Waiting! Let’s think of that word more as a positive! Let’s remember there is purpose in our waiting! When we wait and do not realize there is purpose for it, we forget to see the beauty and opportunities of today! God uses waiting for our benefit and His purposes!

Till next time!

                                                                          Keela

NEW CALENDAR

NEW CALENDAR

At the first of the year, I always get a new calendar for my dad and I. I am still old school with a paper calendar to record birthdays and appointments. It helps dad to remember to call and sing happy birthday to our family members. It helps me to keep all my and dad’s appointments straight. When I go through the previous year, I can get a quick view of some happenings in that past year. This past year of 2023, I think and smile remembering my daughter and my four littlest grandkids, coming this summer for a couple of weeks. My dad turned 90 this year and he got over 90 cards and well wishes. Some great, happy memories. I remember the precious people who have passed away, two funerals within two days. In August, I remember the pain I had in my face and neck. I had to be in the hospital for a week. Not the best memories of 2023. Happy-sad memories. They are all a part of a year gone by.

How are you spending the first day of this new year of 2024? I am being very lazy. I am finishing the rotel dip that I took to dads for him to enjoy. I will sit and read for a while. Dad gave me sixteen books to read of my favorite authors for Christmas. So, ladies who I share books with, I have enough to share this new year! The other day dad called and asked me what I was doing. I told him I was ordering a book off of Amazon. There was a long pause on the other end of the phone. Of course, I was kidding and gave him a good laugh. What are you doing today?

Did you make New Year resolutions to only break them in a few days, like in past years? I try my best but I end up messing up every year. Sometimes I center on a negative happening in the past year and just can’t get past those bad feelings. Maybe you have lost a loved one and you feel guilty and sadness that you did not spend more time talking and spend time with them. Maybe you took another drink of that alcohol which you had been trying to get past those feelings of want and need. Maybe someone said something hurtful to you and you just can’t get past that feeling of sadness, deflation and self-guilt that you felt. Maybe your New Year resolution last year, was to spend more time with your family. But you let life and work get in the way of that goal. Maybe you promised God, on that fresh new day of a new year, that you would put Him back as number one in your life and would spend more time in His word. But you have let worldly things become your center once again. It is after the holidays, and you feel depressed because all the lights and activities are all gone. All those positive hopes for a new year, have become like dust that you have trampled down and forgotten.

This life is hard! Time passes so quickly and before we know it, we are starting a new year. We feel regret for those promises we made and did not keep. So, when I feel those feelings of regret and depression, I turn to the only place that will help me-the bible, the words of my God, which He gave me to help me through this world. I remember that God does not waste any of my experiences and He uses them for my learning. God does not forget His promises. God gives us unconditional love, no matter what we have done or who we are. 1 John 4:16 says that “God is love…” He is all we need.

Instead of dwelling on the past mistakes of the previous year, we need to make the choice to dwell on those promises only God can give us. We need to forge into another year, learning from our mistakes-pushing those negative feelings about ourselves in the past-move past feeling guilty and shameful for what we have done-pushing away those old regrets. We have to renew each and every day to follow God and push forward knowing that one day we will be blessed to live with Him forever.

Here are a few verses I turn to when I need a reminder and a push of positivity.

Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” When I am trampled underfoot with this life, I need to remember that God is right there with me and He is the only true strength.

Psalm 34:17-18 “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.” When I have lost a loved one and do not know how I can go on, I need to remember that God is near me, hears my cry and gives me peace.

Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God to those who are the called according to His purpose.” When trials come my way, and they will, I need to remember that I am allowed to go through that pain to help my future and what it holds for my life.

Lamentations 3:22-24 “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him!” The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.  I am refreshed every morning to walk one step at a time and make a new future. Every day presents me with a new opportunity to discover and experience more of God’s love.

Matthew 6:14-15 “for if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” I have to learn to forgive others who say hurtful things to me, but even harder, I also have to forgive myself for all those missteps I have made during the past year.

There are so many verses that can help us with each and every day. So many to give us hope and excitement for the next chapter in our lives. God has given us a self-help book. We need to stop looking, leaning and building on the things of this world and only look, lean and build on the promises and hopes of our Lord and Savior!

We will make mistakes this year and feel pain, that is a fact! When we once again turn the new page of a new calendar of each year, we need to remember to get into God’s word and feel the peace and love that only God can give us! This world is not the answer. God is the only answer!

Till next time! Happy New Year!

                                                                  Keela

FLOODING MEMORIES

FLOODING MEMORIES

FLOODING MEMORIES

Who would have thought I would be crying with heart felt tears, watching the Thanksgiving parade? The float had the group “Chicago” on it and they were singing “You’re the Inspiration.” Some of the words to the song are “You know our love was meant to be, the kind of love that lasts forever, and I want you here with me, from tonight until the end of time, you should know, everywhere I go, always on my mind, in my heart, in my soul…” That was the song my husband had dedicated to me, of how he felt towards me. The last ten years of his life, he was not the same man I had married, but that song was still how he felt towards me.

When do those types of memories flood into your mind? Usually, every year that I put the ornaments on my tree, I shed a few tears because memories flood back into my mind. My tree is made up of memories. I usually try to buy an ornament that represents each particular year. One is a Santa holding a ski        and a cast on his leg. That was the year that I broke my ankle and my mother did too. I have an ornament that has a picture of my grandmother, reading a book at Christmas time to four of my grandkids. She was an amazing woman, who my daughter got to know really well and even named her oldest daughter, Opal, after her. I also have an ornament that shows my husband dressed as Santa. He loved to go to Boy Scout meetings dressed up and hand out presents. He even was Santa at the Walmart he was working at the time. He said the only time he did not like being Santa, was when a little child threw up on him. (That was fun to wash!) I have an ornament of my mother and the year she died on it. Memories flood back into my heart. She was an amazing mother! And then there is the ornament, with my dog’s face on it. She died a few months after my mother did. After my mother passed away and my dad downsized, my brother and I went through each closet and cabinet getting things ready for him to move. I now have so many things that remind me of her and both of my grandmother’s. What a blessing to have beautiful handmade quilts and ceramic keepsakes from both of them.

Maybe, if you bought ornaments for your tree that represented something that happened to you in that year, they would not be pleasant and would cause bad memories. Memories of hard times. Maybe you did not have a parent that raised you to be a Christian or they were one who raised you with abuse. It is time to change those memories you are making now and in the future.

I have been through some rough times. Those memories, when they flood into my mind and soul are sad but yet now, I can see how God used them and is using them through my writings and speeches I present. Those hardships made me the strong Christian woman I am today, who wants to serve the Lord with the rest of my life. We need to have those hard memories so that we can wash them clean of the pain that filled our hearts. We all have good and bad memories. Sometimes they flood into our minds without even knowing that they are coming. Something will happen or we see or hear something, and there the memories flood our hearts, like they happened yesterday.

Do you ever feel melancholy? Do you get buried into your mind thinking about the past? We all do, don’t we? When those hard times flood our minds, we need to replace them by the positivity that came from them. If we really think about the negative past, there is always a positive that we can glean. If we don’t, we can spiral into an abyss of darkness. The pain of what happened to us still has ahold of us, causing us to drown in those memories.

Going back to the song I heard and the words that were said in that song, it made me think about God in those words. (You are saying what in the world is she talking about!) God loves us and is love forever, till the end of time. 1John 4:16 says “…we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.” In everything we do, we need to make decisions based on our love and obedience to Him, in what is right and wrong, out of a heart of obedience. John 14:15 says “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Also, we need to have Him in our mind, heart and soul.  Matthew 22:36-38 reads “Teacher which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.” God commanded His people to choose Him with every part of their being, and in the process, to deny all other supposed deities.   

When those flooding memories, flow over us like a river, whether they are good or bad, we need to remember that God is always a constant in our lives. He always loves us no matter what we have done. We just have to reach out to Him in those hard times and remember to obey Him with every part of our being. We need to put Him as our inspiration in everything we do, everything we say, everything we go through, all the memories that flood our hearts. How do we get to the point of loving and obeying Him with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind? Take out the bible, the words given us by God, to help us when memories flood our mind and soul. His words have power to pull us out of the drowning flood. Let His words flood into your mind, heart and soul!

Yes, I shed tears when I see or hear something that brings out memories of things of the past; of people who I loved; of hard times. But I know that if I put God first, His love will rescue me from the flood.           

A float in a parade and a song from long ago. Who would have thought that I needed a handkerchief handy? When memories flood your heart, turn to God and His words of love.

Enjoy your family and friends this holiday season. Make lots of memories! Someday, when you look back and tears flood your eyes, you will realize that the love those precious souls gave you are the reason for those tears and you can be thankful for them flooding your mind with memories!

Till next time! Happy Holidays! Be safe! I will see you in the New Year!

                                                                        Keela

(The picture at the beginning, is of my grandmother reading books to my grandkids when they were little. Even though it brings tears, it is a precious memory that floods my heart!)

PUTTING ON THE NEW

PUTTING ON THE NEW

When I put on my new glasses, I could see better than I had for a long time! It was amazing! I am sure you have seen commercials of little children, when they get a new pair of glasses, the look on their faces of joy that they can now see clearly. That is how I felt. I had cataract surgery on both eyes at the end of last year. Because of my stigmatism, I was going to have to wear glasses. After my surgery I could see better, but not clearly. My glasses finally came in and I went to my eye doctor’s office to pick them up. When I put them on, it was like a switch went off in my eyes causing them to clear up from the blurriness that I had evidently been living with. My old vision had become new. I had not realized that I had slipped into living with lack of vision for a long time.

Isn’t that the same way we slip into sin, sometimes not even realizing it, until something causes us to see that lack of vision-lack of clarity? Maybe we have missed church services a couple of times and then we think we don’t want to go, easier to stay home. The people there won’t miss me! Maybe we miss a couple of times at the gym. We think it is much easier to just stay home. It won’t matter that much! Maybe we see that last cookie on the plate. You have been trying to be good but you think one more won’t hurt you! (I know that last one is not a popular one with Thanksgiving and the holidays coming with all those special treats we make.) Maybe we should wait till the first of next year to get back to church, get back to the gym and watch what we eat. But then the first of the year comes and we think all those new things you were going to do, don’t seem important anymore.

Those were all examples of staying in the old habits and not reaching out to replace them with new habits. God wants us to put our old man or woman to rest, who is full of sin, and come to Him, putting on the new. Maybe we have become more and more like this world. One more dinner out with someone who is not our mate, which can lead to adultery.  Maybe that person in that car cut you off in traffic and you race after them, giving them a certain finger, cuss at them with anger in your heart. Maybe you justify one more drink of alcohol because you think you can stop at any time. Maybe you feel you are just so sinful that there is no use in trying to live a new life, sin free. Maybe you have your focus on the pursuit of things in this world. Your family is suffering from your lack of presence in their lives. But you condone it because you think you are taking care of your family, by the accumulation of things of this world. The world we live in today, has always been full of hanging onto the old ways and not searching for and changing to a new way. Without you knowing, it slowly creeps up on you.

In this world today, there are those who are searching for something-anything that will make them feel better about themselves and their circumstances. The problem is they look in the wrong places, in things of this world-alcohol-drugs-sex-possessions. We, as believers and followers of God, must show them a better way. We know that the old man or woman of the world must change and become new. There has to be some action! The only new way is Jesus! In John 14:6, Jesus tells His disciples, “…I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” God is the answer we need to share with the world we live in today. All those things of the old you, needs to be replaced with a new you, in and through our Lord and Savior.

Our old is in the past and the new leads us to our future, full of joy, looking towards our heavenly home. Here are a few verses, which show us that we need to step out of the old and step into the new, and thereby see more clearly.

  1. Romans 6:6 “…our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.” A believer is not the same person he or she was before conversion, a believer is a new creation in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “…if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” These verses show us that Jesus is the answer to becoming a new creation!
  2. Colossians 3:8-10 “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.” Then also in verses 14-17, “…above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” These verses show us that we need to renew our knowledge by studying God’s word. Christ is the only true way to put off the old, of sin and put on the new, of life!
  3. Ephesians 4:22-24 “…that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man, which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” These verses show us that we have to stop living a life filled with this world and put on a new man or woman, which is a life filled with our God!

What is the common denominator in these verses? You guessed it! We have to stop doing sin which is our old life and start putting on a new life which is shown us by studying His word, the bible, and applying those truths into our lives. We have to show love to others, just as God has shown His love for us.

I am so thankful that we have access to glasses which help us see in this physical world and all the beauty of it that God has given us. The changing of the trees has been so beautiful! But, even more important, I am thankful that we have access to seeing, through the Word, our blessed Savior and what living a life of obedience and love to Him, can cause us to see that clarity.

Let’s all start putting off the old ways of this world, and start putting on the new ways of our Savior!

Till next time!  Have a thankful and blessed Thanksgiving!

                                                   Keela

FINAL WORDS

FINAL WORDS

On the 26th of October of every year, for the last 14 years, I have memories of one of the hardest days of my life. It was a life changing day. It was the day my husband passed away during surgery. He had suffered from many illnesses, mentally and physically, including depression. Also, congestive heart failure, which put him in the hospital every other week. He went in for a surgery to replace his aortic valve. The surgeon felt like if he could replace that valve, it would help his battle of congestive heart failure. The surgery would “blow”, as the surgeon said, his kidneys and he would have been on dialysis for the rest of his life. My kids and I felt he needed to make that decision of whether he wanted to take that risk. He decided he did. I was working twelve-hour days, so I had made arrangements with a dear friend from church to take him for that dialysis.

He went in for surgery on a Friday. The surgeon came in and took one look at him and said he could not do the surgery on that day. He wanted to keep him over the weekend and try to drain fluid off before going into surgery on Monday. I am so thankful for those couple of days! He acted and felt more like himself than he had in a long time. My kids and grandkids were there most of those days. He was laughing, making jokes and being onery, just like he had before he had gone into his depression. He went into surgery on Monday in better health, mentally and physically, than he had for many years. During his long, long surgery, there were about 15-20 people there with us. Some, stayed the entire time and even went to get lunch for all of us. Time kept ticking away. Finally, that evening, me and my kids were called back. My parents went with us. The surgeon said the valve was working perfectly, but they kept draining and draining but that fluid kept coming. He asked me if I wanted them to continue that procedure. Of course, I said yes. I remember coming back to the waiting room and feeling like I was going to be sick. A friend, went and got a cold towel to help. Finally, after another hour or so, they called us back. His body could not take it anymore. He had died. That possibility had never even entered my mind that he would die!

It is funny the things that our mind gives us as memories. As they had been wheeling him into surgery, with his funny little surgery cap on his bald head, my final words to him were, “See ya on the other side.” I had meant on the other side of surgery. Little did I know it was going to mean, one day when I go to meet the Lord and I would see him again in heaven, on the other side.

I recently, just finished teaching a ladies bible class centered on James. The book centers on what words we use. What words come out of our mouths that can cause pain or blessings to others. James 1:19-20 tells us we are to be “…swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” In the class, we repeated the first part of that verse at the end of every class. I have heard it said that God gave us two ears to listen, but only one mouth. That mouth can spew out many damaging arrows. The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to pierce and break a heart. God wants us to grow in wisdom and put our faith into action. Part of that is being careful of the words that come out of our mouth. There are some people who think of something in their head and immediately it comes out of their mouths, not thinking that it will hurt someone. The enemy, the devil, knows if he can get enough of the wrong things in our minds, that they will eventually begin to come out of our mouths.

Colossians 3:2 & verse 17 says, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth…and whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” In Matthew chapter 4, Jesus was in the wilderness, not eating for forty days. The devil tempted Him with three different things. First, the devil reminds Him that He could make rocks into bread since He was the Son of God. Second the devil tells Him to throw Himself off the temple, getting attention from the crowds. Thirdly, the devil then told Jesus to fall down and worship him, and the devil would give Him all the kingdoms. In every temptation, Jesus said, “…it is written.” He was referring to the law; scripture we have access to today. The devil squeezes himself into our minds in those moments when we are hurting-when we get angry-when we feel we are not worthy to be a child of God-when our flesh is weak. But if we put the words of God in our hearts, through study of those words in the bible, we can push the devil out of our minds and hearts!

Did I say anything wrong, that day that changed my life forever? I don’t think I did but I wish my last words to him, would have been telling him I loved him! We had been through some really rough times during the last ten years of his life. There are so many words I wish I would have said differently, so many days when I was exhausted and frustrated and I know I said what I shouldn’t have. I look back and wish I could have had better words to help our teenager daughter through those dark days when my husband was in a deep depression. Our tongue can give peace to a hurting soul, if we just stop and think.

I have had several people, since my husband passed away 14 years ago, ask me, if I would have known I was going to have to go through those rough trying years, would I have still married him. Honestly, while I was going through those painful years, maybe I would have said no. But I know I would not have three amazing children, eight grandkids and three great-grandkids, of which I don’t think I could live without. I am also thankful for those years because I feel that I have grown so much closer to God. I learned so much about God from him. He preached at small churches who could not afford a full-time preacher. If I had a question for a class I was teaching or for my ladies’ day, I could ask him and “off the top of his head,” he could give me chapter and verse in the bible. His memory was amazing! He only had to read something once and it stayed in his mind. I am also, a more confident daughter of the King, because of his encouragement for me to write and be the best woman I can be. I know that through my published books and talking to women, that my story has helped other women, especially, to heal and to know that there is hope through God. And if we don’t go through trials, how can we truly exercise our faith and gain more faith!

So, what am I trying to say?  I only had 36 years with my husband before he passed away. We don’t know how many more days-hours-minutes-seconds we have on this earth with our loved ones. Be careful what comes out of your mouth. Think before letting those words out into the air that we cannot just catch and put back. A lady from one of my jobs, came to his funeral. She said she did not know what to say. My husband’s funeral was right before halloween. Yes, you know what I am going to say. She said “happy halloween.” (I will never forget the look on my daughters face when the lady said that.) If you don’t know what to say to someone, it is better if you just don’t say anything at all.

If you are married, and especially those for many years, don’t take that for granted. Give them a kiss-give them words of encouragement instead of negativity.

“Life is recorded, not only in decades or years, but in events and memories that form the fabric of our being.” -Guideposts-

Final words. Those words I said are memories of a very stressful and sorrowful day in my life. If you never are able to change what you have said, maybe you need to just not say them. Think. Words of kindness and goodness need to be a new part of your life!

My Larry, as I said those final words fourteen years ago, “I will see ya on the other side!” I miss and love you so much!

Till next time!

                                                                       Keela