7/17- I want to answer a question I received today?

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 7/17-

I want to answer a question I received today?
Have you ever had anything happen to you that you had a hard time getting over?
1946, 1956, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970,
1971, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2013, 2022.
These are years of some major highlights of my life that I don’t actually want to get over. I want to keep them in my memory bank always.
There is a difference between a biography, an autobiography and a memoir. A memoir is your own memory of what happened and is by nature biased.
Since 2012 I have made an attempt to have a daily post explaining what is on my mind. They purpose in my ow mind is to give the story of my life in a broken down to bite sizes. Some posts have been one sentence, others a paragraph and others a bit longer. My hope is that family and friends my read a bit and be encouraged and connect the writing with things that happen in their own lives.
Yesterday, 7.9.2013 and today 7.10.23 have been written about in years past because they were big days in my life. This day was the end of my life as full time minister with a church and they beginning of what is called “retirement”.
In my point of view a genuine Christian minister never retires from his work. He tries to minister any way that he can until he dies.
There is a difference though in being called and supported to serve a particular congregation as the one whom they look to for teaching and support and being a “free lance” encourager, prayer person and writer, blogger and substitute teacher.
I wanted to thank all of you for the eleven years you have read and commented on my posts here from time to time. Yesterday, many of you commented about the move day ten years ago and it lifted my spirits to know and be reminded the constant love and support Sheila and I received from all of you . Thanks.
Some of you may be asking what were the highlights of those years. Hopefully I can share some of these in the future.

2 Timothy

4 I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready [a]in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and [b]exhort, with [c]great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5 But as for you, use self-restraint in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 8 in the future there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.

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