“When you take time to journal each day, it’s like snipping out 30 minutes of your life now and sending it ahead far into the future.” –Joe McKeever (Hey, if I don’t quote myself, who do you think will?)
“When was your daughter born?” I asked the mother of the bride.
“October 18, 1993.”
I said, “Was I there?” “Yes, you were,” she said. “We still have the cartoon you drew for us when you came by the hospital.”
Then it hit me: I have that day in my journal.
Back in the decade of the 1990s, I kept a hand-written, daily journal, requiring a full half-hour of writing each night. In time, it filled 56 volumes. For reasons long forgotten, I gave it up after the year 2000 arrived. (Probably because it took up so much space.)
The journal says I did indeed go to the hospital when her daughter was born. I photocopied the two pages and sent to her. And decided someone might appreciate reading about that time in my ministry.
So, here goes….