Archive Entry #100: June 15, 1995

Twenty years ago I thought it was pretty cool that we had made it to our tenth anniversary together, or so today’s entry from that era will show. I guess it was the fact that in the then-76 year history of our church, only one other time had a pastor stayed a decade or more that prompted the promotion I offered here.

But there’s something clinical and journalistic about this entry, written as more of a press release than a expression of joy. Perhaps somewhere in my spirit I knew a ten year relationship was good, but it didn’t merit all that much hoopla. [In that regard, I encourage you to tune in to the next entry – #101 – to get a sense of the approach I took to our 25th anniversary, back in 2010.]

A couple of readers notes to today’s entry: 1) The marriage of which I write was my first marriage, which had ended in divorce 4-1/2 years before this column was written; 2) My dad was indeed a storehouse of poetry that he (and his dad before him) housed in his memory banks throughout much of his adult life. Seeing my reference to dad in this column, now nearly three years after his death, brought poignant but joyful thoughts.

COMING NEXT: From June 2010, the column I wrote in observance of my twenty-fifth anniversary as FCCEM pastor. Find it HERE.