I'm in the happiest and longest marriage of my adult life and today marks 16 years being with a lady I feel was God sent to be in my life forever more!! Considering my first three (3) marriages I can't help but feel this one was approved by God because I would have not gotten it right on my own!! So I'm celebrating 54 years total married life and this one makes the cake taste soooo sweet!!

Looking back I remember marrying my high school sweetheart in 1960 and producing two kids four and six years later after tours in Germany twice and thinking I was "All That" doing those years!! Nevertheless the marriage lasted 12 years, the second one just 6 years, and the third one 13 years and nearly cost me my life!! She came to where I was living and pulled the trigger but I survived by the Grace Of God!!! So you can see or imagine why I treasure these 16 years being married for the fourth time with no storms or hurricanes to upset the home and our lives together!!!

It was a coincidence that my first wife died in 1998 and I married my present wife that same year!! My daughter from that marriage, my first child, born in Munich Germany is now serving time in the Texas prison system. She was given 5 years but could have gotten much more for her crime had it not been for my plea to the Judge in her case!!! My son has retired from the military, married for the second time and residing somewhere in Virginia to my knowledge!!!

You can see why I cherish these last 16 years with my wife and figure she was God sent, delivered by the devil that drove the car, whom she thought she was suppose to remain with but that was God insuring she got to me!! We have been faithful members in our church all this time too and she is in the choir and on the praise dance team with the senior ladies which includes the pastor's wife!!! They perform about twice a month and when our church is invited to other churches that church request they perform!!!!

I discovered early on with us getting to really know each other that she was a minister while raising her two kids, nephews, and nieces in New Orleans!!! Many times men and people in general look at me and ask if I'm a preacher!!! I guess I have that look and it never crossed my mind plus you have to be called by God to minister. Of course some just go but should wait until they are called in the Baptist churches to my knowledge...

When this stroke came calling my name in 2004 while home alone, I was glad I had my wife in my life and it so happened she was on a dental appointment that day or I would not have survived the brain bleed I had!!! I have so much to be thankful about in my life these days and being married for 16 years is just the beginning and continuing our church membership is the other!!!! I really feel we are blessed by God in our lives and we can continue to be a happy couple in Love and Marriage.......