Saturday, September 29, 2007

I Hold You Up

Harley and Gladys.

Aunt Gladys said that Harley used to call her Sis. She said that he told her "I'll always be on your side, Sis. I'll always be on your side."

When Aunt Gladys first showed me this photograph I couldn't believe it. This was my Dad? Sadly, Harley's health deteriorated terribly after serving with General Patton in WWII, and I (like everyone else in my generation of the family) knew him only as a man crippled with painful arthritis, and in a wheelchair. But since his death I have always held him up in prayer, and I believe that, in spirit, he is whole and strong.

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