Since April 22 a lot of things have taken a backseat since my wife suffered a stroke. Not all has been bad news, and in an attempt to continue my assigned duty to write on “good news” instead of the bad news that bears down on us every day, I want to assure you the good news of my wife’s stroke is “we are doing fine.” First, of course, Jean (Mrs. Venrick) is taking her prescribed medicine faithfully and also receiving therapy twice a week as well as “doing her prescribed therapy” faithfully daily. Jean is responding very well to therapy and is still regarded as a “high level” patient; in fact, she has even begun another unassigned therapy of “playing the piano” even though, to her, her left hand sounds a bit like “a beginner” she is improving daily. So, while we are attempting to do “first things first” for a few weeks I beg your indulgence as I lean on a few friends to fill in for me occasionally on THE WORDWRIGHT page. Today’s essay comes from the preacher who married us 56 years ago, BOB TINSKY, as we have known him. Bob is retired, from fifty-years “in the ministry” and he lives in Illinois
GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH A HOLY KISS?
OR A HEARTY HANDSHAKE
By Robert J. Tinsky