a little older for sure & somewhat wiser, maybe. All is well with EM & I & we are awaiting August 24th to start back @ ATO on the SU campus. This will be my 2nd year cooking here & EM's 11th @ this 'house'! I really do enjoy it & even with my continued leg pain. I still consider this my retirement as we do get the Summer off as well as a week for Thanksgiving break, a month for Christmas break & another week off for Spring break. Not too shabby especially for an old guy like me. EM would prefer to just be really retired, but I keep moving up her date, which is now 2021 when she is 71! Ha ha...Although I know she isn't laughing, like yippee, we do have fun with this. Here where my 'years' come into play, to consult to other potential entrepreneurs to put some money into a plan to prevent falling into the 'Cosmo Non-Retirement Plan'. Let me be clear though, I am thankful for all I have & believe I even have more than I deserve. I would not physically stop working even with a mound of money as it just isn't in my DNA. However it would have surely made EM's later years a lot easier.
I titled this latest post as "Being 66" & I will explain a little now. I use a cane every once & awhile
& even have a handicap hanger for my rear view mirror. I don't use it all the time but it does help when I am really feeling the back/leg pain. Mentioning rear view mirror make me sometimes
remember to look back into my life. In my case I do let my mind wonder back occasionally to a time when I was a 20 something & a 30 something & a 40 something & yes I think you see the picture. Good times for sure. Lots of family & lots of energy & lots of traveling & lots of love. As I do look back somethings haven't changed & thank you Lord for your Grace through it all. Family, while a little smaller in numbers is still greater in the fact I have 4 Grandchildren to help fill the void of those who are gone. I never considered the possibility Grandchildren in those earlier years, but God sure did! It was a great time going into the Army in 1967, meeting EM on a blind date in 1969, married in 1970, adopted our daughter Lindsay, in 1975 & so it goes. A business here & there, friends here & there, ups & downs here & there, but always a special memory to hold on to now. Some have said I talk about my faith too much in this blog & that will turn some people away. I am not trying to get in any ones face, but I will not deny who I am & what I believe. As I have stated many times I am a sinner who is saved by Grace, period....Not anything I have or could ever do will earn me any more favor with God. He loves us all, no matter where we are in our life. We are all his special children & He wants us all to believe in His Son, Jesus who took our sin to the Cross as our ticket to the eternal life He has prepared for us. Am I done learning & growing in this walk?, of course not & the most amazing thing is anyone can join in @ anytime once he or she declares their love for Jesus! I say all this now because I only became 'born again' @ around age 50, so it is never too late & it has made be a better man although some still may find only my faults & magnify only those afflictions. I am at least confident now in what lies ahead, where before it was always a guessing game that led to an end but no after life in Heaven. So a little wiser, yes God has me & won't let go & I will continue to give Him all the Praise ~ Honor & Glory through 67-68-69 etc. until He decides I have completed the plan He had for me.....As always thanks for allowing me to put a small legacy on my life for which my Grandchildren might discover & read someday.....
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