Posted | Thursday, December 04, 2003 | by Ron
A friend I haven't talked to in 10 years contacted me this week. I chronicled our jouney since 1990 when we moved to Canton, Ohio from Elyria, Ohio ... here's how it went.

We hatched one more kid since our Elyria days ... Alyse ... she's going to be 11 this saturday. A happy, go lucky young lady. Precious as she can be. Has no fear. Scares me!

Andrea is a Sophmore ... Cheerleading, Volleyball. The child scares me. :) She's doing the student govenment thing right now.

Aimee is a Freshman ... 14 going on 44 ... really responsible. Quiet till you know her. Wild banchie after that. She want's a dirt bike. Also scares me!

All 3 are getting to know Jesus. I'm glad about that. They are good teachers for me.

I yp'd at Canton for 6years after Elyria. Hooked up with a College buddy (Broe Davis) and did youth evangelism for about 4 years. We lived in Nashville for 2 of that. Those were hard but blessed days. Glad there done.

Connie worked for ADT Automotive in Nashville. She help lending companies deal with there least vehicle return and diposal process. National City was a big client of hers. They liked her work and offered her a job back in Cleveland. She currently is a "head hunter" for MRC. Finishing up 3 years there

That's when we moved back to Ohio 98 ... I was still on the road at that time. I had been doing graphic on the side with a major designer in Nashville to help when I was not on the road. Loved it. I began freelancing web/print design when we moved back. 5 years ago this coming march I took a fulltime web development job from one of my bigger clients (Summit Racing Equipment).

Also at our return, I went to Warren Naz every Thursday night for 3 years to hook-up with there high School & collage aged kids. After that, the same at Akron SE Naz for 3 years ... just finished that up.

Over the last year I've filled in leading worship at Canton 1st Naz where we have continued to attend on sundays since our return. They just hired a music dude, so I'm done with that.

Often I remeber the way we would sing in that little sanctuary in Elyria, Norm Hetsler was the loudest ... you could alway hear Norm. I sat with him a couple years back when I visited on a Sunday night. It was good.

It's been good to work in the work-a-day world these last few years. Real people. Real hurts. It's been good to get to know God will a few of my friends at work. I've attemped to start a study group but it was infiltrated with church people. The people that I intended to reach quit coming. I think they felt the pointed finger. I stopped doing it then ... I realized in that time that I have nothing to offer them. I need God as much or more than any I was attempting to minister to. That's been a good realiztion. It's helped me stay out of the way.

God is good.

I lost my dad this summer. My brother David & I were at his side at 2:40AM July 9, 2003. David and I were holding his hand when he took his last breath. I miss him. My heart hurts me in these days. I think of him and the things he taught me.