Thursday morning was the 40th annual Livonia PB. After all these year I have become a little jaded with another community breakfast. We have had some truly great speakers and some who were "marginal' and one or two who could have stayed at home and let us eat our quiche in peace. This was not one of those breakfast! Yesterday General Charlie Duke was the speaker. Humble, articulate, candid and really well received! "Charlie", as he prefers to be called, was the10th man to walk on the moon. He spent 72 + hours on the moon in 1972.
He and his wife Doris have written a book titled Moon Walker. A delightful conversational style of writing with candid details about what it take to become an astronaut and also how a marriage ultimate survived that quest. Are all we American males the same - really? I'm beginning to think that we are! The book is a great read and Doris' story within the total story can give hope to any one of us.
I share this blog because I've been around the Prayer Breakfast world for quite a long time 1959 - 2014 - another one comes up next Tuesday and then another on May 21st here in Michigan and who knows how many more will there be around the country. I'm forced to believe that each of them will be great - but I know better. Sometimes a "life of their own" just isn't that good and how many GREAT speakers are there ?. It also seems that the truly great speakers now charge and arm and a leg to make an appearance. So I carry on dreaming and hoping that Jesus will be, in some way or another, the focus of each PB as Jesus was the gentle focus of the Livonia PB. I was warmed and deep;y blessed by Charlie Duke and his book
A day and a time really worth while!
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