cash-practice-secrets-amy-bury-com.gifLance: When my parents compliment me I tell them, “Thank-you. I come from a good line”.

I think you will enjoy this letter. My dad wrote this a few years back. If you need a few grins give it a read.

All the best,

Lance
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Dear Weary Ones,

I’m a procrastinator but I am taking pills for it. After leaving the ASI convention at the Mission Inn in Riverside last May, we stopped by the nearby California School for Junk Yard Dogs. Traveling back to our Joliet digs, we stopped in Kansas to see our other son.

We said we were from Lockport, Illinois. One man piped up, “Lockport! I was in jail in Lockport.” No one else there could top that. It really was a good congregation. This man’s changed life was living testimony to God’s power. Early winter came to Illinois with a Southern accent contrasted with record snows last year, so we came to Arizona later than usual and had to wait 10 days for it to warm up here.

I haven’t been having any fattening food, but I eat it anyway. Our engineer son, lives in northern San Diego County in a tiny town called Valley Center. His house is in an avocado orchard, so we did get some delicious fat when we visited him. He says the area is like Kansas ought to be. (He moved from Wichita last June and is self employed with his stirling engine business www.stirlingengine.com , selling mostly on the internet to schools around the world and as toys for the teaching of thermodynamics.

The color has drained out of my increasingly lonely hairs. I know they are numbered, but I didn’t get the lucky numbers. I tell the barber just to trim the crust. All my life I’ve been looking forward to growing up, but I keep drinking this “Better than Nothing Soy Milk” and I get younger every day.

I’d better let my hair know. I have no concerns about additives in my food. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. My college friend, Hamilton Boyd, and I changed the engine in his Camry this summer. It runs fine now. I spend most of the rest of my time mowing those green lawns (we have pebble lawns out here in Mesa - hard on mowers) or repairing my great, 9 ft. at a pass, lawnmower.

Ham’s wife, Mildred died enexpectedly following surgery just over a year ago. He is filling his life with doing good deeds. Repairing and tuning our Allen Organ was one of them. If you need anything electrical fixed, he can do it. Highest recommendations! Another friend that I graduated with from Andrews University 52 years ago, Marty A, is doing my address list for these letters.

She lives in Northbrook, IL. She is a computer whiz (My computer gives me double my garbage back) in addition to “mothering” over 25 young people through the years! Lance and his wife live four miles away from here in Mesa, and they light up our lives with their frequent visits. He does physical therapy and she teaches music.

In our church here in Mesa a man was playing his guitar for special music. It was a quiet song and we all heard it when his pick fell into the guitar. There he was trying to shake it out to our riveted attention. When it came out there were loud “Amens”.

Another true story: I met a Chinese man who is married to a Czech woman. He calls their children Chinese Checkers! I try to walk 30 minutes, 3 times a day here in AZ, but I can’t remember, did I walk 50 minutes today or was it tomorrow.

I even have to go see a travel agent to sign up for a guilt trip.As you can tell, my circuit breaker broke long ago so I am hoping that my medication kicks in early this year.”Life gives you time and space, and it’s up to you to fill it.

Life can’t give you joy unless you really will it”.Another really truly story…when we were attending Adventist-laymen’s Services and Industries (ASI) convention in Sacramento this past August there was a power outage. Ninety-year old Caris Lauda got up and led us in singing, “There is Power in the Blood“, a delightful, brilliant, impromptu humorous time filler till the lights came back on!When looking back over my shoulder I hope that Father Time carries that big scythe just to trim his beard.

Nursing home expenses can quickly take the yolk out of a next egg.I hope the ladder to your success is leaning against the right wall.I love you more than all the flowers on the wallpaper with marshmallow soft love and this goes way back - back to when the Dead Sea was only sick. After looking back, a look forward comes to mind. I can’t understand God’s dual nature or free salvation, but I accept it and find my faith is strengthened by the certainty that God wins in the End!

Love,

R and J