Gary is Pastor at Westside Baptist Church in Gainesville FL. He and I met
on mission trip to China in 1997. We two strangers spent a tough night in a
communist compound and have been close friends ever since. Gary came out of
a mission trip to Russia under gunfire, but said the night we spent in the
compound was much scarier.
I don't think about that night much. It's long ago now. Gary's loss of
Freda makes that distant memory seem like a party. To lose yourself, your
other self, your better (truly) half, is a grief I'd rather not contemplate.
I hugged Ruth extra hard this morning.
Pray for Gary and the family. Pray for Westside Baptist Church.
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