The man's side of it!

There was a song my mom taught me when I was a youngster, it went like this:

Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver and the other is gold.

Today while I was shopping at Walmart, I ran into some very dear friends I hadn't seen in a few years. It was Pastor Chuck and his wife, Joyce Shorter of the New Testament Baptist Church, in Columbus, NJ. They are definately the gold kind of friends. The kind of friends where time and distance really don't matter, the nicest thing about old friends is catching up on the things that are going on in each other's lives. We chatted for quite some time. It was nice, like going back in time.

I left N.T.B.C. after my first wife became terminally ill, I guess I was mad at God, for letting something like this happen to my wife, she passed away after much suffering. I haven't been back to church since then, but I think and pray for my "church family" often. I'm not sure what is keeping me from going back to church, sin, shame, or maybe there's still some anger left in me at God.

I am very happily remarried now with a wonderful wife and family.

The song your mom taught you is a song that the Girl Scouts sing at the campfire.

And I am happily married too :)

Love you!!!!

I think that we all are angry at God. There is still alot of bad memories and shame that we all have from attending the church and how we weren't the best christian daughters. I know that we as your daughters let you down, but we have all learned a lesson from it. I believe that we all changed for the better and are a much happier family. I know that Mommy is proud of us all and that we have become the family that she always wanted us to be. I love you and miss you so much.
Shells

Dear Hussey family, what a joy to share in the memories of your family via this website. I think of you all so often and wonder how life is treating you. I've learned that once you truly have love for someone, the kind that Jesus teaches in His Word, that never goes away, no matter what. That is the kind I have for the Hussey family. I have been sad that I lost touch with you and figured there was a reason Ted didn't want anything to do with me. Forgive me for not understanding Audrey's illness and not being a better friend at the end of her life and perhaps that's why you don't keep in touch. I think of Audrey so often. I am in nursing school in Oklahoma and actually talked about her a few months back to my class. I am so thrilled you found another love, both you and Cassie. I am thrilled and blessed that your family is at peace with one another and where you should be. I am not above begging you to email me and let me know how you are all doing. If you'd rather not, I will be checking back here quietly to see. We are praying for a return assignment to New Jersey in 2006 where we hope to retire. Please please send my love to Linda and to Michelle and all those sweet sweet grandbabies! In His Love and Grace, Wendy Glosser, homeschooling mom to Thomas (14) and Alex (11), nursing student graduating in Feb 05, wife to Thomas for over 15 years, and military family since 1987.

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