She was just the first of many to see what the grace of God could do to a broken soul. She might have been sweet but she didn’t know what you now knew. Reading aloud to a wife who thought you might have just lost your mind. You learned to read with a King James bible. How precious did that grace appear the hour you first believed.Īnd now your story begins. You were confronted by the Holy Spirit and like all who are, you were humbled, broken, repentant. What was it Lionel? 5 days, 7 days later. he was the bible banging believer who happened to be your only ride to work one day. You met a man at 26 who would become a best friend. Still, you learned to work on the farm and fix up a house. Tragedy made you move from New York City to Illinois farm land where you became the “baddest” guy in town. You brought the chaos of your childhood into that marriage. You married 60 years ago but it didn’t start easy. You said you knew you would marry her because she was the only girl you couldn’t corrupt. Charming enough to entice an innocent country girl to be your wife. That was the first time you had left the New York City Limits. Well you enlisted anyway and couldn’t get out. Still again, God brought to you a wife who poured out herself to the children you shared and indeed to you as well. Your mother suffered her own pain and mental illness and left you largely to fend for yourself. Your father offered you little affection, but you gave love and dedication to the family God ultimately gave to you. Raised on uncertainty and grounded in a “if you fight fair you lose” mentality. You were born in 1939 into chaos and pain. Are I suppose, because your life here is done but your new life has just begun. What an amazing complicated and blessed man you were.
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