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From the Pastor's Pen....tium

(yes, I''m still using my 1996 Dell Desktop)

PS.

Dear Mom,

Thanks for your loving stewardship of my life: For nursing me through the infant years while in a cast from my feet to my waist. For driving me to school and picking me up each day. For letting me keep tadpoles in my room until they escaped their aquarium as frogs. Thanks for teaching me to be thankful in all things - like saying thank you through tear-filled eyes to the nurses who gave us our vaccinations. Thank you for reading books that would shape and mold my character, such as Hurlbut's Book of Bible stories and Ten Things God Wants You to Know (I just want you to know that I didn't steal any watermelons like those boys in the story, but I did kiss some girls and danced before I was married). Thanks for teaching me how to love all God's creatures great and small, fast and slow, by letting us have guinea pigs, rabbits, and tortoises as well as cats. Thanks for disciplining me to help keep my path straight and for not replacing the wooden spoon after it broke on my behind. Thanks for laundering all my clothes, especially through the high school years of gym clothes and jock straps. Thanks for popcorn in our lunches that gave us trading leverage at school. For Nuremberg cookies, real German pretzels, fancy, theme-decorated, birthday cakes, great homemade dinners (except for salmon loaf), gugelhupf (without raisins), and all the experimental food that turned out well (except for that homemade mayonnaise). Thanks for taking us on many camping vacations that taught us to love God's creation and to really understand that the heavens do declare God's glory. Mom, thank you for your loving stewardship of my life.

Love, Steven