Reunion
Our 2014 continues to be a reunion year for Ray and me. When we married at the end of 1974, I joined Ray in Lexington where he was working on his Masters in history at the University of Kentucky. While there we were part of a wonderful group of UK students at our church. We worshipped and learned together at Friday night devotionals and at retreats. We sat together at UK football games. After church on Sundays, we ate Sicilian pizza and breadsticks together at Joe Bologna’s Pizza which had opened in 1973.
Each year as we travel to and from the Cincinnati homeschool convention, we have two things at the top of our list of things to do. Going or coming we stop at Joe Bologna’s; and, on the way home, we stop to see our friends Stan and Donna who married in 1975 while we were all together in Lexington. It is always a great reunion.
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Horses on a Kentucky Hillside, Sunday, April 27, 2014
Sunday was even more special because Stan and Donna invited our friends Burke and Karen to join us. It has probably been thirty years or more since we saw them. We were grateful to be able to introduce Mary Evelyn and her family to our dear friends.
Of course we have all changed, but what strikes me more are the ways we haven’t. How precious it was to experience something so like what Ray and I enjoyed almost forty years ago.
After our meal together, godly, energetic, vivacious, upbeat Donna, who has loved Jesus as long as I have known her, shared some family pictures taken at a birthday party she attended since we were there last year.
When Donna’s older sister turned sixty, she invited Donna and their mother over for a birthday lunch. When Donna asked why there were four places set at the table, her sister told her that another guest was coming–their father.
Donna’s 82-year-old father comes to Lexington once a month to see Donna; he comes another time each month to see her sister. But this was the first time since their parents divorced when Donna was in seventh grade, that this father and mother and their two daughters have sat down together for a meal.
Your children are precious to you. Your marriage is precious to them. When you nourish your marriage, you nourish your children.
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,
but with humility of mind regard one another
as more important than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3