Weavings....

      In my final year at Augustana College I lived in an apartment in First Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls. Working as assistant custodian and night watchman. Mary was the church secretary, a very full time job in that large congregation. Mary married Sam when he graduated from Luther Seminary, St. Paul. Sam's and Mary's entire ministry was spent in South Dakota. Sam now lives in Watertown and Mary died a few months after Joanne making us fellow travelers in the land of grief.

     Sam came to visit today. Taking chairs we sat in the cemetery by Joanne's grave. Sam delivered prepared remarks. He recounted the influence of Joanne's father, Rev. Oscar C. Hanson. Oscar who was president of Lutheran Bible Institute, Minneapolis, which Sam attended after high school. Sam credits him as an important mentor in his spiritual development. 

      When my late brother's widow, Mary, remarried, her new husband,  the late Judeen, a retired Lutheran Pastor, was best friends of Sam. So, Judeen and I had mutual friends in Sam and others. We stopped at Mary's in Volga for coffee after lunch at Nick's Hamburger's in Brookings. Sam was also at Augustana College with my cousin. He was baptized at Singsaas Lutheran Church, Hendricks, MN., where Joanne's great-grandparents are buried. There are numerous other ways in which our lives are woven together. This is a day I'll long treasure. 

Takk for alt,

Al

This comic is reminiscent of SE Asia. In restaurants there food will come from the kitchen in the order it's prepared...dessert may come first and salad last, e.g. I learned to order one item at a time to ensure proper sequence. 

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