Originally Posted by
RichY
I was just sitting here wondering how Steve was doing, having no idea this thread existed. Steve wanted to come out here in March to attend "the old geezer's class" at Gunsite, as he put it. I wrote him and said he and his wife could stay with us to save money, we'd give him a key to the house and they could come and go as they pleased. They could either eat with us, or we would give them a list of good restaurants in the Prescott/Prescott Valley/Chino Valley area. I also told him that when he was finished with the class, we'd like him to stay a few more days so we could take them up to the Grand Canyon. He readily accepted the offer, but in a subsequent message he told me he was having strokes and wasn't sure he would be able to make it. I never heard from him again and due to his health, was a bit reluctant to ask him about it. The time for the class came and went with no word from him, and I knew from his previous posts over the years that this was out of character for him. After a perfectly awful day today I sat down and decided to contact LSP552 for an update, when I cam across this thread, and the perfectly awful day just got worse. We were certainly looking forward to his visit, and now we will never have the chance to visit and travel together.
He was one of a few here who I always looked forward to reading his posts, and I truly miss him.
"We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed -- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
Where O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"
! Corinthians15:51-57