There is a wonderful friend of mine in the hospital today, a friend who is so sweet it's no wonder she loves bread pudding above almost all things. In fact, Marcy and I have become best BPBs ... Bread Pudding Buddies. In earlier years, we always tried the bread pudding around the country whenever we were together at company events. More recently I have been privileged to make her various puddings ... but always with the whiskey sauce we both like. There is nothing like a little bread pudding with your whiskey sauce.
Ours is a unique friendship and I pray for her today. Hers has been a long journey, in recent years more filled with doctors and trips to medical centers than she would care for. That journey has taken her up the East Coast and back, and she has gotten some very good news from the Cleveland Clinic recently. I pray that she will recover well from this most recent issue ... I pray too that she has many more miles to travel. Marcy is a fighter and a person who teaches us all how to live, how to smile and how to be all she can be every day. No surprise, because she has been a teacher all her life.
As I think about her today, I think about everyone who has a teacher in their life, whether they are school teachers or life teachers. Marcy happens to be both, and I have many of them in my life. From the two school teachers I have in my own family to the small church group I belong to, from my past mentors to my best friend, from my Men's Group in Greensboro to great new friends at my new church ... even people I have as friends in social media. There is always something to learn from teachers, from their writings and from what they share in lots of ways ... and their example is their best testament.
Marcy is that kind of teacher, a teacher by example. I feel like all of us, and all of her family, have learned much from her over all the years, and perhaps most in the last 10 years of perseverance. It is that spirit in Marcy and all teachers that I praise today, because it comes from God. Teaching is difficult, no matter what way it is done, and it requires a special touch and a special kind of perseverance that can draw in a student or a listener. Teachers draw us to a truth ... and isn't that what God does? Thank you, Marcy, for sharing your spirit and your truth with us ... we hold you in our hearts, always.
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