Those Who Help Us

.Molly frequently reminds me of all those who have helped us through the years - in a thousand ways.

We are constantly more grateful to the dear Lord and all those He has sent to our side, through the many years of our life together.

Good things we may have done in life and ministry, we never could have done without the legions of helpers: Molly's parents, and mine, so generous.  The Feikers and scores of others in little Williamsburg as we were learning the ministry.  Ashley and Kay Day who called us to Newton and Eliot Church, and dear Ida Lockwood, and Bud and Libby Angier, and the P.F.'ers.

And, over the 32 years of Colonial Church so many, and dozens more in the Pilgrim Center years.  And now friends in our Golden Valley Christian community years.

People step forward, unbidden, from the edges of life - our dear children, every one.  Our grandchildren.  And, nameless people in odd places.  Like the athletic club, like church, like the neighborhood.  They are countless.

Oh God, how we love them all, and thank you that you sent them!  Are they somehow, a legion of angels?  They have known our need and just stepped forward.  And You led them.