“ The Spirit sent as our messenger to bring hope. Your sin is forgiven I remember them no longer.”
SECRET: MY FATHER'S DREAM
My father talked and planted a wonderful dream into me.
Andrew gave me a “corner” assignment:
I was to draw something that I see or from my mind!
“Draw ANYTHING!” he said.
Over the years these “drawing assignments” turned into lessons for learning:
… mathematics, music, book reading, and essay writing.
listening to my father reflect the family stories:
… Places he visited as a young man, People he met, things done
… stories so rich in detail I felt as though I was there!
Even today I feel as though I am at the side of my father as
he walked the streets of Chicago,
… worked at the Stud baker PLANT IN South Bend, or
… paddling an open row boat through the night waves of Lake Erie .
… ‘Smuggling” Scotch whisky from Canada to
The North shore cities of Ohio.
These stories fueled my “imagination”, and
… come alive at the slightest encouragement.
I credit my father for giving me a
… “CREATIVE IMAGINATION”
that would be fundamental to My life’s work
… That continues these 70 years.
A life of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness
… Fueled by an Insatiable curiositY that leads us to live each day
… as if it was a Saturday and we could live forever.
The SECRET, my dad taught me, was to develop:
… an insatiable desire to know- That irresistible desire to know
about everything we come into contact with
… No matter the subject, no matter how complicated, simplistic or esoteric it might at first seem in this we will continue to create our future.
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robert r.lackney, permanent deacon
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