I’m not sure if the first child is always the favored child, but in our family that was the case. It seemed Robby had his way with most anything he wanted. That is at least my perspective, which is a child’s perspective, which can be reconstructed a bit. I know enough now to know that [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Robby was a mean brother. One time he took the bed sheet off one of our beds and tied some type of strings to it to form a makeshift parachute. He made a couple of us brothers climb a tree and jump into some sticks he had constructed in an upright position. I did not [...]
Robby was one of those guys that had destiny written all over him, specifically in the area of athletics. He was a born athlete. There was no question about his giftedness. I do not remember when he took the field in the big three: baseball, football and basketball. In our day these were the main [...]
My oldest brother, Robby, was born in July of 1956. He was a rare person. He was more gifted in certain ways than any of the rest of us. He certainly had more potential than any of us as far as making a success of himself and getting out of childhood and into adulthood in [...]
Some time in February of ’86 Gerald, Penny and Rick got in a car and headed to Greenville, South Carolina. It was a cloudy day. I remember saying hardly anything on the 2.5 hour trip. I made one statement about the clouds as they were allowing the sun to shoot several fingers of light through [...]
I went to the altar a crying, balling mess. I was slobbering all over the altar. I do not remember everything I said to God at that moment. I do remember it was pretty much anti-climatic. I had already prayed all I knew to pray days and weeks before. I got up, in tears, and [...]
I continued to work in the church through the Summer and Fall of 1985. I couldn’t seem to get enough. My career at Delaval was going well. God was showing favor there as I was becoming more involved in committees and training, etc. It was a good job for me. I told Cal Pearson that [...]
