Special Dog
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Western Pennsylvania |
| Introduction | I'm thankful that God took a twelve year old boy from a broken home and planted him in an apartment on a modest street amidst fine and decent fellows who would become new friends. I'm thankful that he permitted me to attend a very good high school, rich in tradition and academics, where I would at least experience, although hardly partake in, a scholarly atmosphere. I'm thankful for my wife, my best friend. I'm thankful for thirty-seven years of employment from one company. I'm thankful that in 1982 God had mercy on the lowest of the low, loved the most unlovable and redeemed the least worthy of it. I'm thankful for the gift of a son who I have watched grow far beyond my own intellectual capabilities and do so without the path of rebellion that I chose...and the perfect match of a wonderful young Christian woman...and now a beautiful grandson. I'm thankful for failures...for they make it impossible for me to think that I am something that I am not. I am thankful most of all that God opened my own eyes to see... first myself, and then the cross of Calvary, the empty tomb and the clouds in which Jesus both ascended and will return. |
| Interests | I was born in Buffalo, New York in 1950 and moved to Pittsburgh in 1962, was educated in Catholic schools through high school and appreciate what they were and probably still are today, I spent three years in the army of which eighteen months were in Vietnam where I was in electronic surveillance and analysis of Morse code intercept, I came back to attend Pitt on the G. I. Bill where I met my future wife, I worked for an energy company for thirty-seven years and had been a union member for the entire time before recently retiring, our son and his wife have careers in law and medicine respectively, I became aware of my lost condition in 1982 and was "born again" through God's mercy on the least worthy of it, I was Pentecostal in my beliefs for about ten years until persuaded from Scripture that Reformed Theology and God's sovereignty therein was what Scripture taught. My favorite book is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, the last stanza of a song within which reads: Hobgoblin, nor fowl fiend, Can daunt his spirit; He knows, he at the end shall life inherit. Then fancies fly away, He'll fear not what men say, He'll labour night and day...To be a pilgrim. |
| Favorite movies | Chariots of Fire, The Winslow Boy, Mister Roberts, Mrs. Miniver, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Advise And Consent, Manchurian Candidate 1st film, Russian Ark, African Queen, Gods And Generals, Blackhawk Down, We Were Soldiers, The Searchers, Life is Beautiful, Luther (Fiennes), Amazing Grace, Witness For The Prosecution, Master And Commander, Cromwell (Harris and Guinness but not the score), Bridge On The River Kwai, Goodbye Mr. Chips, |
| Favorite music | Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bach, Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Welk, Big Band, 60s pop particularly instrumental, Parisian Cafe-accordian, Broadway Musical, |
| Favorite books | Pilgrim's Progress, Valley Of Vision, Putting The Amazing Back Into Grace, Ashamed Of The Gospel, Non-Fiction, Vanishing Word, Myth of Religious Neutrality, Puritan literature |