Jim and Jenny Kiefer and
their daughter, Emily, spent a day with us this week, and took us to lunch.
Came all the way from San Francisco to do it. Well, I think they had some other
reasons to drive their VW Golf all that way, but we’re glad they included us.
Jim was an undergrad at
our campus ministry, The Wesley Foundation, at Illinois State University, back
in the 1960s. He is one of my children in the ministry.
I told him something I
have never said before in front of those particular “children.”
When I speak to groups of
ministers, or to other groups about the ministry, I say: “I have 23 children in
the ministry. They say they went into the ministry because I made it look like
fun. They all hate me.”
Jim got a good laugh at
that, then said, “Well, I did have
fun, and I don’t hate you.”
My children had fun and
they don’t hate me. I’ll take that as my epitaph.
JRMcF
johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com
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