Our Friend Bob
Thursday, February 20
This morning our friend Bob MacFeat called to see if we were home. He said he had something he wanted to show us.
He arrived an hour later. The thing he wanted to show us was a video of him and his wife, Thelma, in 1994.
Someone gave this to him in early January. He didn’t even know it existed. They were singing Chime Bells.
The reason this is a special treasure to him is that Thelma died on January 17.
He was driving for Yellow Freight when we first met him, probably in the late seventies or early eighties. He said he worked there for twenty years.
We had the most interesting conversation, as he told us many stories from the time he served in World War II, the first time he met Thelma, and the day he accepted the Lord into his life at the age of forty-two.
Cerwin asked if he still plays harmonica. Bob reached into his pocket and said, “I’m glad you asked.”
He proceeded to play Silent Night, and then the first song he ever played on the harmonica – a polka of which he did not know the name.
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We thought we had enough to do this morning – with just getting home after nine days on the road, but we wouldn’t trade the sweet time of fellowship we had with him.
We got most of the things done anyway, and what we didn’t finish will wait until tomorrow.
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Tonight’s beautiful sunset.
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