Seventy four years ago I was brought into this world by the doctor in little Homedale, Idaho. Dad was fishing for the day with my older brothers so my older sis had to run down the country road to a neighbor who had a car so they could take mom into town where I was delivered with my own sis assisting the doc. I was baby #10.

When I was in the midst of my counseling/therapy 15 years ago I was told by the counselor that men in prison have my kind of past. They are in prison and I wasn’t. She was trying to get me to see that the prison I was in was only in my mind/emotions for God had given me great freedom–I just wasn’t able at that time to allow myself to see it.

Today I write this because I just can’t thank God enough for the beautiful freedom He has given me. Not only has He given me this wonderful freedom, but in addition He has given me the most loving wife and a family of children and grandchildren for which any grandpa would be most proud!

There is an old hymn that says, “I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how He could love me–a sinner condemned, set free. Oh how wonderful, oh how marvelous and my song will ever be, oh how wonderful, oh how marvelous is my Savior’s love for me! These words tell my gratitude today!