Thoughts: A great friend, church member and elder drowned yesterday- his name was Jack Barwick. Jack sent an email thought every day to thousands of people (many times more than one).
His last email was called "An End of an Era" and it forwarded an email about the selling off of Roy Rogers' museum property. Roy had said whenever the museum quit being profitable to sell it off. The museum sold his things many times triple for what they were estimated.
Roy and Dale were people of great faith and a strong witness. So was Jack. One of the paragraphs said, "You and I were born at the right time. We were able to grow up with these great people even if we never met them. In their own way they taught us patriotism and honor, we learned that lying and cheating were bad, and sex wasn't as important as love. We learned how to suffer through disappointment and failure and work through it. Our lives were drug-free."
A new documentary is coming out on the 100th birthday year (2012) of Dale and Roy called "Life Beyond the Happy Trails." Dale wrote an autobiography called, "Trials, Tears, and Triumphs" in which they highlighted their very great highs and lows. But through it all they kept their love for God and for each other.
Roger's sign off of his show was the song, "Happy Trails to You...Until we meet again." Happy trails Jack. It IS the end of an era. But my prayer is out of the stump a shoot will spring forth.
Prayer: Lord, through out my life, keep my faith and my love for you and others strong.
"Happy Trails to You" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYsO890YJY
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