Thanks

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May 30, 2020

Thanks to, too, two. A little play on words. I never really got the proper use down for the first two and how and when to use them. I almost never get the third one, two, wrong.

 

A couple of different types of thanks need to go from me.

 

First is to my God the Father, Jesus as my Lord and Savior and to the Comforter also known as the Holy Spirit. There is no way to convey my thanks to this Triune God

 

The remainder of my thanks belong to my family, friends and opportunities that may or may not have come from them.

 

Thanks to my family. My parents who raised me. They may have made a lot of mistakes, but they did so much more right. They shown me values and what a healthy marriage looks like.

 

Thanks to my brothers and cousins who where among my best friends growing up. They continue to be so. Thanks to my 2 closest friends growing up, Doug and Rick. They were just as if they were my brothers and family. And to my extended parents, Mom and Dad Boner.

 

Thanks to the people that I churched (a Roger word) with growing up. To my youth leader Charlie. It sunk in but took me a while to retrieve it and act upon it. I hope that he would be proud of the Christian man I had finally become. To the other youths in the group as they put up with me as I was, as an adolescent, was just beginning the journey toward manhood. I made a lot of mistakes, hurt a lot of feelings and often wasn’t the friend that I should have and could have been (probably due to my own selfishness).

 

Thanks to my first true love (one of only two). I was often a jerk. Tried to come across as a man when I didn’t know what it was to be a man when I was really just a boy (I wasn’t honest with myself; how could I have an honest relationship with her). Her patience as I tried to learn what it was to be husband material (I never did learn that while with her; the other would probably say that I never learned it at all. Hopefully forgiving me when I would make decisions (usually big ones) about us without consulting her (joining the Army as an example) and thinking that making big decisions this way is what a man does. For being a person of character and wasting those years she was with me on me. She may never know what her influence did for me to make me the man that I am and husband I once was (it was good and deserving of praise. I definitely didn’t deserve her.

 

Thanks to the United States of America. As a people and an entity, it had made mistakes in the past. It makes mistakes now. It’ll make mistakes in the future. But I believe that it is the best that there is in the world. It has taken care of me all these years and especially now. I didn’t fully understand all this when I joined the Army (what 17 year old would). Thanks to the Army and Guards for letting me serve and for strengthening in me the leader that I would become.

 

Thanks to my ex which is also my second Love. She put up with a lot. She gave a lot to put up with but I’ve learned from that as well.

 

A really big thanks to my daughter LeeAnne. She has had to deal with divorced parents and a split family. In reality, I believe she has done quite well with a situation that she didn’t have a hand in nor deserved. She has been great at allowing me to learn to be a father; even allowing me to be a friend. Her Mom really squeezed out a keeper with her.

 

And a special thanks to those spiritual people and ministers that have lead, advised and taught me as well as dealt with me as I served. They have been very patient with me as I reached what was my spiritual pinnacle (I hope I’m just in a dip right now and not on the downside of the hill).

 

And a different kind of thanks to those that worked in occupations with me. They probably don’t know how valuable as friends they really were to me as we worked together and after (though I have been remiss and have let many of the relationships die (just happened and not by cognitive thought and personal choice).

 

Ok, we got the series out of the way.

 

A thanks to the doctors, shaman and quacks (just kidding about the last 2; well maybe not quacks) that have worked on me over the years and continue to work on me yet.

 

Thanks to the people that provide software solutions for free (free and open source software). I utilize many of these programs and suggest them to others. I encourage all who use them to make a donation to their cause so that they can be encouraged and continue to make new and update existing software. Come on people, throw them a bone.