"Just Ripening For The Great Harvest"

People ask us what it is like to be retired. And we give some answer that translates, "we don't know. We're too busy to find out."

This is a new phase of our lives -- and I want it so much to be the most beautiful of all. After all of these years, we are now able to be together most of the time. It is my deepest desire that things will settle down enough for us to share the deepest thoughts of our hearts, to live in harmony with the LORD, who is the head of our home and our marriage, to gracefully age and continue to work on the legacy that we will leave to those we love so dearly -- from the oldest child, down to the tiniest life now being formed in the warmth and depth of its mother's body, we love you more than we can even begin to say.

Dearly loved ones, the greatest joy we could ever imagine will be to stand arm-in-arm with all of you before the thrones of our Lord Jesus and our Heavenly Father. Right now we are "just ripening for the GREAT harvest". But while we are getting ready for the greatest journey of our lives, we are praying that when we get to the "end of the way" that our "circle" will NOT be broken. We don't want one of you to be left behind!
This is our prayer.