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Flashback Photo<br />
Sharing the Road<br />
Corydon, IN<br />
1931<br />
// Photo courtesy of the Frederick Porter Griffin Center, Harrison County Public Library<br />
This snapshot from the Corydon square in 1931 reveals a glimpse into a<br />
bygone era when horses were still frequently used for transpotation, but<br />
automobiles were increasingly common. A horse waits paitiently next to<br />
a sign reminding visitors that auto parking was not allowed during the<br />
busiest time between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturdays.<br />
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A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill<br />
The bright orange crocosmia –<br />
roughly 3,700 miles from its<br />
original home – was hidden<br />
behind a pile of wood chips<br />
in the back field, barely peeking over<br />
the edge as if looking for some salvation,<br />
a helping hand.<br />
Mission accomplished. I feared<br />
I had lost them all, refugees from a<br />
trip to Ireland about 10 years ago,<br />
smuggled home in a plastic bag. Such<br />
thievery is, of course, wrong, illegal<br />
and possibly horticulturally unhealthy.<br />
On the other hand, the crocosmia<br />
were taken from the edges of a<br />
crumbing stone house above the Atlantic<br />
Ocean near Waterford – the<br />
very house in which my Irish family<br />
lived hundreds of years ago before<br />
immigrating to the United States in<br />
the 1880s.<br />
The. Home. Place.<br />
So, I plead guilty to plant thievery,<br />
your honor, but I was very careful<br />
to wash the roots, and minimize any<br />
possible disease damage. What better<br />
living memory to have in our <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
garden than some flowers from my<br />
great-grandma’s Irish garden? And<br />
we left a few billion crocosmia behind<br />
in the homeland, scattered like orange<br />
weeds across the country from<br />
County Cork to County Donegal.<br />
And truth be told those crocosmia<br />
– once labeled montbretia – were<br />
originally native to South Africa,<br />
about 6,000 miles south of Dublin.<br />
They proved to be a perfect match for<br />
the Irish climate, and I was only helping<br />
the going eradication program.<br />
The larger picture being every<br />
garden needs some keepsake plants,<br />
mementoes brought home from foreign<br />
lands, or reminders of friends<br />
both here and gone.<br />
We have many. Our larger<br />
keepsakes include a crab-apple tree<br />
given to us almost 40 years ago by<br />
Janet Hill’s Uncle Elmer, a raggedy<br />
little seedling that has since become<br />
a raggedy old thing, but mostly still<br />
safe from the chain saw. On the other<br />
hand, it’s in way too much shade now<br />
and nostalgia has its limits.<br />
Closer to the house are day lilies<br />
and rain lilies given to us by Elmer’s<br />
wife, the Legendary Aunt Helen, a<br />
quiet, fearsome gardener of whom<br />
it was said could grow tomatoes in<br />
asphalt. We have a now 40-foot and<br />
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Irish Refugees<br />
glorious oak tree given to us as a 10-<br />
foot, balled-and-burlapped gift by a<br />
member of the famed Monarchs band<br />
after I did a story about the group. I<br />
start humming their fabled hit, “Look<br />
Homeward Angel,” when I look at it.<br />
We have another huge oak leaf<br />
tree that, when as a transplanted<br />
seedling, was run over by my father<br />
while backing up his car. The tree reminds<br />
us of that moment every year<br />
by hurling hundreds of acorns down<br />
every fall in retribution.<br />
We have a Kentucky coffee tree<br />
as a gift from a nursery friend, ferns<br />
in the shade and iris in the sunshine,<br />
succulents in the plant room and native<br />
azaleas in the woods, all the latter<br />
gifts with names attached, including<br />
another garden legend, Fred Wiche.<br />
The plant that kicks up the most<br />
seasonal memories for us is the agapanthus,<br />
which we first saw in New<br />
Zealand and happily blooms in the<br />
summers in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>. Agapanthus,<br />
like our crocosmia, is also<br />
native to South Africa, so consider<br />
that mileage to <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
New Zealand really stirs up<br />
memories because the trip was just<br />
a spur-of-the-moment idea. We’d<br />
heard and read about it. Great plants<br />
and gardens and it’s warm way down<br />
there when cold up here. Our companions<br />
were two old friends from<br />
Minnesota who really wanted to get<br />
out of the cold.<br />
So, there we were in Christchurch<br />
walking the town’s botanic<br />
garden, headed south along the Pacific<br />
Ocean, west to a boat ride from<br />
Milford Sound, looking south to the<br />
Tasmanian Sea and Antarctica.<br />
The food was wonderful, the<br />
people fun and easy going, the whole<br />
country like a big sports bar with<br />
wineries and sheep farms and majestic<br />
mountains. It all fell in place in<br />
Auckland where we watched locals<br />
and tourists alike bungee jump off its<br />
iconic Sky Tower. As we returned to<br />
our car and left the parking garage,<br />
the crossbar lifted high to allow us<br />
out – a Viagra commercial written<br />
across its side.<br />
OK, that’s a lot to load on an agapanthus<br />
plant blooming in our yard,<br />
especially since we are roughly 8,300<br />
miles north by northeast from New<br />
Zealand as very lost crow flies.<br />
But it does bring all those memories<br />
back: the crocosmia from my ancestorial<br />
home; the agapanthus from<br />
the wonderful folks of Kiwi-land.<br />
Walking our gardens is a little like<br />
old home week without the costs and<br />
baggage handling issues.<br />
And let the record show, your<br />
honor, I did not dig up any agapanthus<br />
in New Zealand and haul them<br />
home in my suitcase, although several<br />
billion of them exist there, too. We<br />
bought some later as memory makers<br />
and planted them in old metal baskets<br />
from Eastern Europe, this connecting<br />
three far-flung countries in<br />
one Hoosier backyard.<br />
We move that basket indoors in<br />
the winter, but if you are interested<br />
there are hardy agapanthus – those<br />
brave souls that will survive our<br />
winters if mulched or just dug up, allowed<br />
to dry and stored indoors. It’s<br />
a beautiful, underused plant easily<br />
available online.<br />
Beyond that, it’s just interesting<br />
to think about the country-to-country<br />
journeys plants take to get to our gardens.<br />
Crocosmia and agapanthus are<br />
considered lovable pests in Ireland<br />
and New Zealand. We just consider<br />
them lovable. •<br />
About the Author<br />
Former Courier-Journal<br />
columnist Bob Hill enjoys<br />
gardening, good fun, good<br />
friends and the life he and<br />
his wife, Janet.
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A Note to Baby Boomers<br />
One way to feel younger is to<br />
hang out with people older.<br />
Hey, I’ll take it.<br />
Older people need<br />
someone who will listen about their<br />
sore knees, their cable bills, their hearing<br />
aid batteries, grandkids who text<br />
instead of call and lifelong friends<br />
whose funerals were last week.<br />
I listened for a living. I can listen<br />
with the best of them. If only I was as<br />
good at stopping the toilet from running.<br />
I settle into a stage in which<br />
young feels a fading memory but old<br />
still seems more foe than friend. So<br />
when not fighting, I nod. I sympathize.<br />
My day comes, I realize, when<br />
still more of me wears out. Already I<br />
polish my own collection of stop-thepresses<br />
grievances should some sap a<br />
generation behind me be up, yes, to<br />
hearing about it.<br />
Not only is the future a four-letter<br />
word. Today can boggle, as well.<br />
I will plug in my next car alongside<br />
the toaster? Do I get that channel? Do<br />
I want to?<br />
Did I really pay $80 for a steak?<br />
Is peeing every other hour normal?<br />
Listening?<br />
Grab hold of aging, we hear.<br />
Stare it down. Stay active, keep moving.<br />
Remain informed, be useful.<br />
Don’t act our ages. Don’t die before<br />
death. All fair and all easier said than<br />
done.<br />
Every week or two this past<br />
spring, the wind blew like <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> is a barrier island. Biggerthan-big<br />
limbs fell at our place. My<br />
house is among this area’s oldest.<br />
No surprise, then, so are too<br />
many of the trees. Like writers and<br />
the elderly company they keep, trees<br />
do not live forever, storms or no<br />
storms. I cannot expect otherwise.<br />
Like there is no point in wishing<br />
my father, or his father, or someone<br />
else near and dear had taught me<br />
how to cope with trees that, with a<br />
whoosh, go horizontal. Handiness<br />
swims nowhere near the Moss gene<br />
pool.<br />
In other words, I could today<br />
buy a chainsaw. Then tomorrow I<br />
could buy a prosthetic hand.<br />
Instead, a friend heeded my plea<br />
and, without so much as a sweat,<br />
sawed big pieces into ones little<br />
enough for the street department to<br />
haul away. Such is heroism as I define<br />
it these days.<br />
No action in Washington, or <strong>Indiana</strong>polis,<br />
matters more than common<br />
courtesies we can give and receive<br />
and occasionally actually do. So<br />
if listening to whines and whims of<br />
people a decade or two my senior is<br />
all it takes, I’m game.<br />
Just keep your politics to yourself.<br />
Our local public library needs<br />
board-of-directors members, like do a<br />
nearby cemetery and a park. I can do<br />
stuff like that – more than decently –<br />
so I do stuff like that.<br />
Requiring only one bottle of<br />
shampoo per year is not my only<br />
strength.<br />
A neighbor shares his vegetable<br />
garden with us. That, too, is good, in<br />
more ways than one. A childhood pal<br />
occasionally has the old gang over<br />
for grilled goodies and strolls down<br />
memory lane. I enjoy not only every<br />
bite but every story.<br />
It’s funny, though, those gettogethers.<br />
We end up talking about<br />
what’s ahead. We prove that fun is<br />
not finite; more is there for the taking.<br />
One guy, whom I never would have<br />
guessed would leave our hometown,<br />
just returned from Portugal.<br />
Tell me more about these group<br />
tours you take, my host asked me.<br />
Time’s a wasting.<br />
Before we know it, I reply, we<br />
will be old as in too old. So go. Do. I<br />
know some terrific dog watchers. You<br />
don’t even need to bring me back a<br />
T-shirt.<br />
Actually, I’m more into coffee<br />
mugs.<br />
Food sticks between my teeth.<br />
Why? Teeth spread out over time.<br />
Losing weight is more difficult, staying<br />
awake is more difficult, seeing<br />
and hearing and digesting and remembering<br />
all ran out of warranty.<br />
No action in Washington, or <strong>Indiana</strong>polis,<br />
matters more than common courtesies we can<br />
give and receive and occasionally actually do.<br />
So if listening to whines and whims of people a<br />
decade or two my senior is all it takes, I’m game.<br />
Will my toenails stop growing<br />
when I no longer can reach them?<br />
Don’t answer that.<br />
That inevitable litany aside,<br />
though, I increasingly convince myself<br />
to appreciate what remains to<br />
appreciate. I finally get the hang of<br />
retirement. I do not necessarily need<br />
to know what day of the week it is. I<br />
can run errands on my schedule, not<br />
on my employer’s.<br />
I can count on one finger the<br />
number of times I have worn a necktie<br />
this year.<br />
Plus, health-care costs are, well,<br />
less unaffordable. Whoever came up<br />
with Medicare is right up there with<br />
Willie Mays.<br />
I improve at facing facts, easier<br />
to see with the reading glasses scattered<br />
at my place. My Giants are winning<br />
without me on the mound. A<br />
not-all-that-young woman at the gym<br />
calls me “sir.” My local high school<br />
supposedly came up all-but-empty in<br />
its search for a new basketball coach.<br />
Yet I was not asked to come to<br />
the sidelines rescue. And to think<br />
I know a couple of dandy out-ofbounds<br />
plays.<br />
I feel more good than bad. I can<br />
climb stairs and distinguish a noun<br />
from a verb. I haven’t vomited in like<br />
20 years and that’s got to count for<br />
something, right?<br />
If listening to older people hate<br />
on getting older is my lot in life, I<br />
welcome the opportunity. Maybe I<br />
will learn something or teach something.•<br />
After 25 years, Dale Moss<br />
retired as <strong>Indiana</strong> columnist for<br />
The Courier-Journal. He now<br />
writes weekly for the News and<br />
Tribune. Dale and his wife Jean<br />
live in Jeffersonville in a house<br />
that has been in his family<br />
since the Civil War. Dale’s e-<br />
mail is dale.moss@twc.com<br />
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New Albany is home to a<br />
great number of architectural<br />
wonders that have<br />
graced this riverfront town<br />
for decades – even centuries.<br />
One landmark that residents<br />
take great pride in is the historic Second<br />
Baptist Church, known to many<br />
as the Town Clock Church. Not only<br />
is the building recognized for its<br />
beauty, but the church and its founding<br />
members also played a significant<br />
role in the history of our country.<br />
It was a stop on the historic Underground<br />
Railroad, which was a network<br />
of routes, places and individuals<br />
that helped enslaved people in the<br />
south escape to the north.<br />
The church dates to the 19th century.<br />
It was first owned by the Second<br />
Presbyterian Church, with construction<br />
beginning in 1849 and completing<br />
in 1852, just nine years before the<br />
American Civil War.<br />
The church’s exterior is made of<br />
brick and is constructed in the Greek<br />
Revival style of architecture, which is<br />
inspired by the symmetry, proportion<br />
and simplicity of the ancient Greek<br />
temples of the 5th century B.C. The<br />
architect for the project was Isaac P.<br />
Smith, a church member and a master<br />
builder who designed many buildings<br />
in New Albany. Smith is known<br />
for such structures as the Joshua<br />
Bragdon House, the Montgomery-<br />
Cannon House and his own residence,<br />
the Isaac P. Smith House.<br />
When owned by the Presbyterians,<br />
the church was one of a handful<br />
that opened its doors to a mixed-race<br />
congregation, yet not everyone was<br />
on board with the idea. On Dec. 10,<br />
1889, an African American congregation<br />
purchased the building from the<br />
Second Presbyterian Church, and it<br />
became the Second Baptist Church.<br />
It’s no surprise that this building<br />
has endured its fair share of structural<br />
troubles during its 170-year existence.<br />
The original church steeple was<br />
struck by lightning several times, but<br />
the biggest blow occurred on June 28,<br />
1915, when a lightning strike split the<br />
steeple in two. The structure was removed<br />
two weeks later, and the clock<br />
tower was capped and replaced with<br />
a cupola.<br />
The church also suffered damage<br />
in the Great Flood of 1937. The<br />
undercroft, where freedom seekers<br />
found shelter from bounty hunters,<br />
was submerged, leaving behind a<br />
layer of mud and silt once the water<br />
had receded. The remnants of the silt<br />
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Cover Story<br />
and dirt still remain in the lower portion.<br />
There were many times when the<br />
church faced being condemned, but<br />
thanks to the current leaders of the<br />
church, the Rev. LeRoy V. Marshall<br />
and his wife and church administrator,<br />
the Rev. Joyce Marshall, the building<br />
has been given a new life. During<br />
A Church Full of History<br />
Town Clock Church was a stop on the Underground Railroad<br />
Story by Julie Engelhardt<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman (except where noted)<br />
the past 10 years, the Marshalls have<br />
done a great deal to ensure that this<br />
iconic site could be restored and revitalized.<br />
The Marshalls are from Bullitt<br />
County, Kentucky, and for years their<br />
home church was Ebenezer Missionary<br />
Baptist Church in Louisville. They<br />
were comfortable with their church
and never dreamed of moving away<br />
from their friends and congregation.<br />
They became an integral part of the<br />
Second Baptist Church when LeRoy<br />
was offered the position of pastor in<br />
2009. But this wasn’t something he<br />
pursued.<br />
“We received a call to come<br />
over,” Joyce said, “and LeRoy was<br />
like, ‘Well, I don’t know… .’ We were<br />
doing what we thought that God<br />
would have us to do, but we didn’t<br />
realize or understand that it was only<br />
a season, that he had other things for<br />
us to do.”<br />
Joyce says that they prayed and<br />
prayed, trying to understand what<br />
they needed to do. LeRoy visited the<br />
church a few times, and finally accepted<br />
the new position.<br />
“We came over with not really<br />
knowing what he was going to face,”<br />
she said. “There were so many different<br />
things that needed attention,<br />
so that’s how I became the church<br />
administrator, to help him and the<br />
congregation to pull everything back<br />
together.”<br />
Renovation on the church began<br />
in 2012. One of their first projects<br />
was to clean out the belfry. Hundreds<br />
of birds had made their home in the<br />
structure, leaving behind 4 to 5 inches<br />
of dung. The cost for the clean out<br />
process was estimated to be $12,000.<br />
The church dates to the 19th century. It was first<br />
owned by the Second Presbyterian Church, with<br />
construction beginning in 1849 and completing in<br />
1852, just nine years before the American Civil War.<br />
Pictured: (opposite) The clock tower rises about the church; (this page, from top) the Underground Railroad Garden includes many beautiful statues and structures, including a gazebo<br />
housing the 100-year-old cupola that once set on top of the clock tower; the sanctuary of the church houses a replica of the original chadelier // Photos on this page submitted by Friends<br />
of the Town Clock Church.<br />
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Jerry Finn, who at the time was the<br />
president of the Caesars Foundation<br />
of Floyd County, and Irv Stumler,<br />
who was running for mayor, came on<br />
board to help the Marshalls and the<br />
church. Finn was the director of the<br />
501(c)(3) foundation for the church,<br />
and Stumler took on the role of project<br />
manager for the renovation.<br />
The church has come a long way<br />
in the past decade. What was once a<br />
building in disrepair is now a shining<br />
beacon.<br />
When you enter the church, you<br />
walk through double wooden doors,<br />
one noticeable feature is that the seats<br />
are divided.<br />
“This partition is a sign of the<br />
times. Men sat on one side and women<br />
sat on the other,” LeRoy said.<br />
Ornate tables and chairs grace<br />
the upper room as well, along with a<br />
magnificent organ that was also part<br />
of the original church. Unfortunately,<br />
the organ is not functional.<br />
“It could be functional for about<br />
$230,000,” LeRoy said.<br />
Heading outside to the back<br />
of the church, visitors will discover<br />
the beautiful Underground Railroad<br />
Heading outside to the back of the church, visitors will<br />
discover the beautiful Underground Railroad garden<br />
area. Many outstanding statues and structures adorn<br />
the garden, such as the gazebo that showcases the<br />
100-year-old cupola that once sat atop the church<br />
after the original steeple was destroyed.<br />
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replicas of the original front doors.<br />
According to LeRoy, these doors cost<br />
$15,000 and were graciously donated<br />
by Pat Harris, a realtor who lives in<br />
the area. A small set of stairs takes<br />
you through the front hallway, where<br />
you will find identical rooms on either<br />
side. The room to the right is the<br />
reverend’s office, and the room to the<br />
left has been renovated into a fully<br />
functioning kitchen. They were originally<br />
used as reading rooms. “The<br />
Presbyterians were big on reading<br />
about Presbyterian life,” LeRoy said.<br />
Heading down the hallway,<br />
you enter the lecture room, one of<br />
two sanctuaries in the church. Large,<br />
white, iron pillars are found throughout<br />
the room, and a wooden lectern,<br />
circa 1852, is centered on the pulpit.<br />
Another sanctuary is located on<br />
the second floor, this one more ornate<br />
than the bottom-floor room. Visitors<br />
enter this room through one of two<br />
doors that showcase stained glass inserts.<br />
The 1852 glass windows were<br />
once part of the lower floor of the<br />
church. In the center of the sanctuary<br />
hangs a replica of the chandelier that<br />
once hung in the church. The original<br />
was a triple chandelier, but the one<br />
currently in the building is a single<br />
chandelier. According to LeRoy, it<br />
would have cost $65,000 to hang one<br />
as large as the original.<br />
The pews in the upper sanctuary<br />
are also original to the building, but<br />
garden area. Many outstanding statues<br />
and structures adorn the garden,<br />
such as the gazebo that showcases the<br />
100-year-old cupola that once sat atop<br />
the church after the original steeple<br />
was destroyed.<br />
Next to the gazebo is a mosaic art<br />
piece honoring the enslaved people,<br />
which was constructed by the class of<br />
2016 of New Albany High School. According<br />
to an article in the News and<br />
Tribune in 2018, the mosaic is based<br />
upon the artwork of Jacob Lawrence,<br />
an artist whose work depicted the<br />
Harlem Renaissance and Black history.<br />
The piece incorporates chains,<br />
the North Star and Harriet Tubman.<br />
The church is open for regular<br />
services on Sundays, plus the community<br />
and school groups are welcome<br />
to book tours. The church is<br />
also seeking volunteers to help with<br />
various programs and to become docent<br />
guides. •<br />
More information and history about the<br />
church can be found at townclockchurch.<br />
org or their Facebook page, Friends of the<br />
Town Clock Church.<br />
Pictured: (top) one of the statues in the Underground<br />
Railroad Garden; (bottom) a mosaic piece honoring the<br />
enslaved people, created by the New Albany High School<br />
class of 2016 and based on the artwork of Jacob Lawrence,<br />
an artist whose work depicted the Harlem Renaissance and<br />
Black history. The piece encorporates chains, the North<br />
Star, and Harreit Tubman.
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Embers erupt from<br />
the fire built from<br />
wood still too damp<br />
to burn properly,<br />
sending pops and<br />
crackles off in every direction.<br />
He smiles to himself as he<br />
imagines nature is putting on a<br />
fireworks show just for him. His<br />
wife has been asleep long<br />
enough his arm tingles all the<br />
way down to his fingertips, but<br />
he won’t dare disturb her. As<br />
his wife breathes the slow, soft<br />
melody of sleep, her husband<br />
watches the fire.<br />
He notices as the embers shoot<br />
from the heart of the blaze into<br />
the inky sky, disappearing into<br />
the fog settling onto the lake,<br />
and his mind drifts back. He<br />
looks at the elderly woman<br />
sleeping so comfortably on his<br />
shoulder and thinks back to the<br />
day he met her, then on their<br />
wedding day three years later.<br />
He remembers how the two of<br />
them stood side by side from<br />
when they met during college to<br />
when she transitioned from<br />
young professional to retiree; as<br />
they became parents, then<br />
became grandparents.<br />
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The fire, emitting less heat than<br />
just moments before, is still<br />
sending embers out from its<br />
core. He smiles as he watches<br />
tiny moments of his past become<br />
miniature comets, momentarily<br />
becoming the center of his<br />
attention before disappearing<br />
from view, or burning out just<br />
before disappearing into the<br />
indistinguishable grey curtain<br />
made up of fog and the serenity<br />
of the waveless lake.<br />
His wife wakes up and sees her<br />
husband lost in thought. She<br />
decides not to interrupt his<br />
moment. Beyond the comfort of<br />
her husband’s shoulder, the fire<br />
pops and she notices an ember of<br />
flame and ash disappear into the<br />
water. She smiles. Here is a<br />
perfect moment, one of many,<br />
now written in the story of their<br />
lives.<br />
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<strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong> • <strong>Sept</strong>/<strong>Oct</strong> <strong>2022</strong> • 17
Artist Spotlight<br />
Man’s Best Friend<br />
Local artist, Elaine Leidolf-Davis, paints unique hand-crafted pet portraits<br />
Story by Darian Decker<br />
Photos submitted by Elaine Leidolf-Davis<br />
There are few gifts more personal<br />
than a unique, hand-crafted<br />
portrait of your favorite best<br />
friend, and Elaine Leidolf-Davis<br />
Paintings truly delivers.<br />
Leidolf-Davis originally started<br />
pursuing art in high school and graduated<br />
from Ivy Tech with a degree in<br />
graphic design.<br />
“I knew I wanted to do something<br />
where I could be creative in my<br />
job,” she said. “I’ve worked for the<br />
past 38 years doing graphic design,<br />
marketing, advertising and social<br />
media.”<br />
Three years ago, after the passing<br />
of her father, a series of events led<br />
to Leidolf-Davis taking a few years<br />
off work. In the midst of Covid, she<br />
switched her focus to painting.<br />
Although she started in acrylic<br />
paints, Leidolf-Davis began taking<br />
classes and working in oil on canvas<br />
to have more blending ability.<br />
“It’s a whole different medium<br />
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— you have to use mineral spirits<br />
and other mediums,” she said. “I really<br />
liked that fact that I could paint<br />
and if I wanted to change it later I still<br />
could because it was wet enough. It<br />
gives me a little more control.”<br />
She had originally painted horses,<br />
but after having a woman ask to<br />
paint a dog of hers, she found there<br />
was a real niche for pet portraiture.<br />
“Ever since people saw that pet<br />
painting, it just blossomed,” she said.<br />
“I had finally found my niche.”<br />
Since then, she’s developed her<br />
website and Facebook page and solidified<br />
her reputation as a pet portrait<br />
artist.<br />
“In 2021, when everything<br />
opened up a bit, I thought, you know,<br />
I’m semi-retired, I’m just going to go<br />
to an art show and see what happens<br />
because I had quite a few paintings<br />
at that point,” she said. “I ended up<br />
selling about seven of them at one<br />
of these shows and I was so excited<br />
about it because I’d never done that<br />
before.”<br />
Now, Leidolf-Davis attends<br />
about four big shows a year, including<br />
Big Four Bridge, Corydon Extravaganza,<br />
MountFest and the Belknap<br />
Neighborhood Art Show. The Big<br />
Four Arts Festival is taking place on<br />
<strong>Sept</strong>. 10 and 11 on the Louisville side<br />
of the Big Four Bridge.<br />
Ever since participating in the<br />
art shows, her business has taken<br />
off. While she does general work and<br />
brings those pieces to shows, she is<br />
mostly focused on her large intake of<br />
commissions. At shows, she brings a<br />
variety and paints pets on location.<br />
“When people see me paint on<br />
location, they stop in their tracks.<br />
There’s a lot of pet people out there,”<br />
Leidolf-Davis said. “And I love to do<br />
it; it just comes easy to me. I do believe<br />
that God is guiding me in this.”<br />
When working on a commission,<br />
all Leidolf-Davis needs is a clear
image of the pet and then she takes<br />
care of getting the sketch done and<br />
painting the final product.<br />
At project end, the customer<br />
receives a text with the image proof<br />
and then the canvas itself, ready to be<br />
framed or hung.<br />
“When I send clients a text with<br />
the image of their pet, and they say ‘I<br />
love it’ or it brought them to tears …<br />
I’m thrilled. They are keepsakes,” Leidolf-Davis<br />
said. “I feel the paintings<br />
are a blessing for people to keep.”<br />
She said she learns more and<br />
more with each painting in terms of<br />
finding tricks and techniques that<br />
work better than others.<br />
“That’s the only way you’re going<br />
to learn, really,” Leidolf-Davis<br />
said. “I’ve never had formal training;<br />
I just paint what I see.”<br />
You can catch Leidolf-Davis at<br />
one of her many fall art shows or on<br />
her business website – elaineleidolfdavis.com.<br />
You can also find her on<br />
Facebook under “Elaine Leidolf-Davis<br />
Paintings.”<br />
Leidolf-Davis said now is the<br />
time to place orders for the Christmas<br />
season. She does not attend shows<br />
later than <strong>Oct</strong>ober to make sure she<br />
gets all orders produced for Christmas<br />
gifts.<br />
“It’s one of a kind and it means a<br />
lot to people, especially if you’ve lost<br />
a pet,” she said. “All I need is a clear<br />
color image of a pet and I take it from<br />
there.”<br />
To place an order, call Leidolf-Davis at<br />
502-648-1556.<br />
“When people see me paint on location, they stop in<br />
their tracks. There’s a lot of pet people out there.<br />
And I love to do it; it just comes easy to me. I do<br />
believe that God is guiding me in this.”<br />
- Elaine Leidolf-Davis,<br />
Local Artist<br />
Pictured: (opposite) A few of the commisioned pet portraits painted by Leidolf-Davis; (this page, top) Leidorf Davis poses with a few of her pet portraits displayed behind her; (this page,<br />
bottom) examples of general pieces sold by Elaine at her art shows.<br />
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Business Spotlight<br />
Building Generations<br />
Local family-owned cabin business keeps growing<br />
When Linda and Randy<br />
Gilmore built their first<br />
cabin in 1986, they never<br />
dreamed that their 14<br />
acres would expand into a 200-acre<br />
spread with more than 120 cabins<br />
tucked into its scenic woodland. And<br />
they had no idea that 36 years later it<br />
would evolve into a thriving business<br />
run by their son, Dale, and his wife,<br />
Billie.<br />
The enterprise began almost by<br />
accident, Randy said.<br />
It all started when a friend, the<br />
late Lovell Wilkes, urged Randy to<br />
look at Wilkes’ cabin.<br />
“He had asked me a couple of<br />
times,” Randy said. “And finally, he<br />
insisted, ‘Get your wife and come<br />
look.’” They looked. An idea was<br />
born, and soon their first cabin was<br />
started at the rural Wickliffe site, near<br />
Patoka Lake.<br />
That was the beginning of Patoka<br />
Lake Cabin Sales and Gilmore<br />
Log Homes, which became a fourgeneration<br />
endeavor. “Our son, Josh,<br />
has been with us since he was little<br />
and is a big part of all we do,” Billie<br />
said. When needed, their daughters,<br />
daughter-in-law, son-in-law and even<br />
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young grandchildren pitch in, she<br />
said. “So, you can see it is truly a family<br />
business. Skills have been passed<br />
down.”<br />
Randy and Linda built that first<br />
cabin while working full-time jobs.<br />
“We worked weekends and until 10<br />
some nights to get it built,” Linda<br />
said.<br />
It almost ended there.<br />
“It took a year for that first cabin<br />
to sell,” Randy said. “I vowed if that<br />
ever sold, I would never build another<br />
one.”<br />
However, he didn’t stay true<br />
to those words. The cabin sold on a<br />
Saturday morning, and by that afternoon<br />
the next cabin was underway.<br />
The Gilmores have continued<br />
to add acreage, clearing, developing,<br />
surveying and dividing the land into<br />
acre and half-acre lots. They have<br />
built 120 cabins, mostly on Gilmore<br />
property, with 15 or so built in Brown,<br />
Spencer, Dubois, Perry, Pike and Orange<br />
counties.<br />
Much has changed since the<br />
first few cabins went up, Linda said.<br />
Instead of the up-to-date equipment<br />
used now, she recalls using a cake<br />
decorating bag to chink in between<br />
Story by Sara Combs<br />
Photos submitted by Gilmore Log Homes<br />
the logs. “I used a pencil and graph<br />
paper to design those first cabins,”<br />
she said.<br />
“Now,” said Billie, “we use computer-aided<br />
design programs to help<br />
in the planning.”<br />
Every person has different wants<br />
and needs, she said. “They tell me<br />
what their budget is, what size they<br />
want and how many people they<br />
want to accommodate.<br />
“Some want to entertain family<br />
and friends; some like to keep it more<br />
intimate. With the lake nearby, some<br />
want to take advantage of that for<br />
swimming, fishing and water sports.<br />
Some are just looking for a quiet place<br />
to relax. We do our best to guide them<br />
to build the dream home getaway<br />
they want.”<br />
One thing that hasn’t changed<br />
is the personal service the Gilmores<br />
provide. “When clients who have<br />
spent time here return home and start<br />
to wonder if they have turned off<br />
the water or the stove, all they have<br />
to do is call and we have checked it<br />
for them and take care of whatever is<br />
needed.”<br />
“There were five cabins early on<br />
and we became friends with a lot of
the people who occupied them,” Randy<br />
said. That has held true through<br />
the years. “We have some nice people<br />
in these homes,” said Dale, who has<br />
been involved since his parents built<br />
the first cabins.<br />
They have had clients from as far<br />
away as California and north of Chicago.<br />
“Word of mouth sells houses,”<br />
Randy said. The clients from California<br />
had heard about their work. They<br />
ordered a cabin with a phone call.<br />
“They just told us, ‘Build us one,’”<br />
Randy said.<br />
There have been some repeat<br />
buyers. Sometimes people have<br />
to move for their careers or family<br />
needs and sell their getaway home,<br />
then move back to the area, Billie explained.<br />
“Then they are ready to buy<br />
another.”<br />
Most cabins are used as retreats.<br />
However, there are 20 or so permanent<br />
residents. “Sometimes the cabins<br />
are retirement homes,” Dale said.<br />
Cabins are nestled in scenic<br />
woodland lots that provide privacy<br />
and every cabin has a good view. “It<br />
is always very quiet and peaceful<br />
here,” Billie said.<br />
Randy said proximity to Patoka<br />
Lake has been a positive for cabin<br />
sales. “The lake has been good to us,”<br />
he said, adding that some of Linda’s<br />
family may not have felt that way<br />
when it first came in. “It took some of<br />
their good farmland and they had to<br />
relocate,” he said. “But it has not only<br />
brought us clients but other business<br />
and employment to our area. I helped<br />
build the lake and worked for the Patoka<br />
Lake Regional Water and Sewer<br />
District.”<br />
The business only had one real<br />
bad time, Randy said. “That was during<br />
the recession – 2007 to 2008. That<br />
was hard,” he said. “There was one<br />
year we didn’t do any new construction.”<br />
But in spite of the economic<br />
trends and the problems brought<br />
about by the pandemic, they have<br />
persevered.<br />
When the business transitioned<br />
to the next generation in 2001, Gilmore<br />
Log Homes began. At first, Randy<br />
and Linda’s other children, Eric Gilmore<br />
and Annette Zehr, were involved<br />
but have since opted out.<br />
Once their youngest daughter<br />
graduated from Crawford County<br />
High School in 2021, Dale and Billie<br />
realized their time needed to be spent<br />
on growing the business. “That is<br />
why we chose to move from Marengo<br />
to the cabin area,” she said.<br />
“Some want to entertain family and friends; some like<br />
to keep it more intimate. With the lake nearby, some<br />
want to take advantage of that for swimming, fishing<br />
and water sports. Some are just looking for a quiet<br />
place to relax. We do our best to guide them to build<br />
the dream home getaway they want.”<br />
- Billie Gilmore<br />
Co-owner, Gilmore Log Homes<br />
Pictured: (top) the open living area and kitchen of a recently complete cabin includes vaulted ceilings; (bottom) the<br />
upstairs loft area, open to the living room and kitchen below, includes a bathroom with a barn door.<br />
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Since their move, they have converted<br />
a two-story shop into a comfortable,<br />
attractive living space while<br />
continuing to fulfill cabin building<br />
commitments. Both continue to serve<br />
as volunteer firefighters and EMTs.<br />
“It was a practical move for us<br />
to live on-site,” said Billie. “The thing<br />
about being in business for yourself is<br />
you are always on the job. There are<br />
no sick days.”<br />
They have their own equipment,<br />
and with the current labor situation<br />
they do most of their own work. Local<br />
contractors are used for electrical,<br />
plumbing, roofing and supplies when<br />
possible. “We have always used local<br />
sawmills and build true log cabins<br />
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Navigating a Difficult Time<br />
How one survior encourages others at the beginning of their journey<br />
Janet Bunge was not too worried<br />
when she was told to go in for<br />
a biopsy following her yearly<br />
mammogram in March 2021. She<br />
was told the same thing before and it<br />
turned out to be nothing, so she was<br />
confident she would hear the same<br />
diagnosis.<br />
However, this time it was something.<br />
The biopsy confirmed she had<br />
breast cancer. She was quickly scheduled<br />
for a lumpectomy.<br />
“It seemed like one minute I was<br />
diagnosed and the next minute I was<br />
having surgery. I didn’t have a lot of<br />
time to diagnose what was happening,<br />
which was probably good,” she<br />
said.<br />
It was also good that Bunge never<br />
misses her yearly exam since both<br />
parents died of cancer and her sister<br />
is currently battling cancer.<br />
“Cancer is in my family so I always<br />
maintain things. I keep up with<br />
my regular exams,” she said. “I have<br />
always been very aware of cancer, but<br />
you are always surprised when you<br />
get that diagnoses. You don’t believe<br />
it is going to happen to you. I was always<br />
aware that it could, but I honestly<br />
didn’t think that it would.”<br />
But it happened. Now, more<br />
than a year later, Bunge is cancer free.<br />
She still goes for regular blood work<br />
and checkups, but she has finished<br />
her radiation treatment. While physically<br />
free from the disease, she still<br />
thinks about it and wonders if it will<br />
ever come back.<br />
“You always have it in the back<br />
of your mind,” she said. “You don’t<br />
worry about it but you know it’s a<br />
possibility. Everyone is bulletproof<br />
until you get it.”<br />
Bunge uses her experience to<br />
help others. As a peer navigator she<br />
reaches out to women who have been<br />
recently diagnosed and answers their<br />
questions along with calming their<br />
fears.<br />
“My role is to pick their spirits<br />
up, answer their questions and<br />
tell them what happened to me,”<br />
she said. “They need support and to<br />
know they are doing what they need<br />
to do. I enjoy being there for these ladies.<br />
It’s something that has helped<br />
me as well.”<br />
Baptist Health Floyd Breast Cancer<br />
Navigator Jill Crawford, RN, said<br />
the program is important because<br />
breast cancer patients know they are<br />
not alone in their fight.<br />
“Even though they may have<br />
good family support, only breast cancer<br />
survivors know what they are and<br />
will be going through and can support<br />
them in a different way,” Crawford<br />
said. “It is also great for our<br />
survivors to be able to have a sense<br />
of fulfillment and to feel like they are<br />
able to give back.”<br />
Bunge did not have to go<br />
through chemotherapy following<br />
surgery, but did have several rounds<br />
of radiation.<br />
“Radiation was kind of hard on<br />
me,” she said. “Radiation wipes you<br />
out. The first day I realized I felt good<br />
after my radiation treatments, I was<br />
running around the house trying to<br />
find things to do. Before that it was<br />
how many naps do I have to take today.”<br />
She also said she was pleased<br />
with the care she received from her<br />
Story by Chris Morris<br />
Baptist Health Floyd<br />
“My role is to pick up their<br />
spirits up, answer their<br />
questions and tell them<br />
what happened to me. They<br />
need support and to know<br />
they are doing what they<br />
need to do. I enjoy being<br />
there for these ladies. It’s<br />
something that has helped<br />
me as well.”<br />
- Janet Bunge<br />
Breast Cancer Survivor<br />
team, which included Crawford, surgeon<br />
Paddy McCormick, M.D., oncologist<br />
Roseline Okeke, M.D., and<br />
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“They were great. I couldn’t<br />
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of me,” she said. “They are still taking<br />
care of me. You always want the best<br />
and I felt like I had that.”<br />
Bunge also said her husband<br />
and family provided great support<br />
during her recovery and treatments.<br />
Now she always offers the same<br />
advice to women who ask her about<br />
her cancer journey. She starts the conversation<br />
with “get your yearly mammogram.”<br />
“Anyone I talk to I impress that<br />
upon them,” the 73-year-old New Albany<br />
resident said. “My cancer you<br />
could not feel. It showed up on the<br />
mammogram which is why they are<br />
so important.”•<br />
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As the weather starts to get<br />
colder and the leaves start to<br />
change colors, there are many<br />
fruits and vegetables that are<br />
just beginning to hit their peak growing<br />
season. While we usually have access to<br />
these items all year-round, they will be<br />
the freshest and most flavorful in the fall,<br />
especially when purchased from a local<br />
grower.<br />
Real Life Nutrition<br />
1. Sweet potatoes – the orange variety<br />
can be just as versatile as the white<br />
potato but with an extra boost of Vitamin<br />
A. They can be baked, grilled, sautéed or<br />
made into chips, fries, wedges, casseroles<br />
and even a pie.<br />
2. Beets – can be eaten raw, on<br />
salads, sliced and baked into chips, or<br />
roasted and steamed whole. The natural<br />
red color can actually be used as a red dye<br />
alternative – so beware when cooking not<br />
to get it on clothing or other fabric!<br />
3. Arugula/spinach/kale – leafy<br />
greens are most often thought of with salads.<br />
Greens can also be sautéed, added to<br />
soups, casseroles or sandwiches. Kale specifically<br />
can be baked into chips. Greens<br />
are packed with nutrients and antioxidants.<br />
4. Winter squash – varieties include<br />
acorn, spaghetti, butternut, buttercup and<br />
hubbard. Great for soups and casseroles,<br />
they can also be baked and used as a side<br />
or as a meat alternative in enchiladas.<br />
Spaghetti squash is known to be used as a<br />
substitute for pasta.<br />
5. Pumpkin – technically pumpkins<br />
are also a variety of winter squash, but<br />
they deserve their own stage! Pumpkins<br />
are most popular during Halloween as<br />
decoration and in pie form for the holidays,<br />
but they can also be incorporated<br />
into your diet in other ways. Breads, salads,<br />
soups and roasted pumpkin seeds<br />
are a great way to get the fiber and betacarotene<br />
that pumpkins are packed with.<br />
6. Parsnips and carrots –<br />
these two vegetables are actually cousins!<br />
Parsnips differ by being white and sweet<br />
with a hint of spice. They are both packed<br />
with Vitamin C and a good dose of fiber.<br />
7. Cranberries – eaten<br />
fresh, cooked, dried, juiced or sauced,<br />
these tart berries are packed with vitamins<br />
and minerals. Branch out from the traditional<br />
cranberry sauce on your turkey to<br />
explore other great ways to use this fruit.<br />
8. Pears – another fruit we<br />
tend to forget has a season thanks to being<br />
available all year-round at the grocery.<br />
They can be eaten fresh, cooked or even<br />
canned. Try them grilled, in a smoothie or<br />
Embracing the Season<br />
Fall Vegetables (and fruits!) to spice up your plate<br />
soup. As with most fruit and vegetables,<br />
keep the peel on for extra fiber content!<br />
So, while you are out enjoying bonfires,<br />
football, pumpkin patches and hot<br />
cocoa, remember to add some of these<br />
fruits and vegetables to your favorite fall<br />
traditions. for a wide range of health outcomes,<br />
such as reductions in depression<br />
and anxiety symptoms, stress, mood disturbance,<br />
and BMI, as well as increases in<br />
quality of life, sense of community, physical<br />
activity levels and cognitive function,”<br />
the report read.<br />
If you’re still undecided if gardening<br />
is for you, my advice is to go for it! Starting<br />
with even one simple plant can give you<br />
an inspiring boost of confidence. Maybe<br />
the best time to plant anything was last<br />
year, but the second-best time is today. •<br />
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About the Author<br />
Kate Perkins, MS, RD, CD, is a clinical dietitian at Baptist Health Floyd in<br />
New Albany. She graduated from the University of Kentucky and completed<br />
her internship in Lexington, Kentucky. Although she has practiced in a variety<br />
of settings in the past nine years, she finds most joy in clinical nutrition applying<br />
evidence-based practices to improve patient care. In her spare time, she<br />
loves reading, staying active and trying local restaurants.<br />
Do YOU have a food, nutrition or cooking question you’d like answered by<br />
one of our experts? If so, send your query to katharine.perkins@bhsi.com. It<br />
may be answered in a future issue!<br />
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Everyday Adventures<br />
Iwas unlocking my front door when I<br />
spotted a dark object out of the corner<br />
of my eye. Someone had placed a new<br />
sign on our porch. It was black with<br />
only two words written in white, cursive<br />
script.<br />
It said, “Hello, pumpkin.” Uh oh, I<br />
thought. It has begun.<br />
You see, my family has a problem.<br />
We’re obsessed with pumpkins. Every last<br />
one of us. Pumpkin decorations. Pumpkin-flavored<br />
desserts. And, of course, the<br />
actual orange balls full of seeds, goop and<br />
wondrous, autumnal goodness.<br />
You know how a full moon causes a<br />
werewolf to go crazy and sprout fur? Fall<br />
has the same effect on my family. Except<br />
we don’t sprout fur. We sprout pumpkins!<br />
Here we were, barely into August,<br />
and the first pumpkin-related merchandise<br />
had now appeared on my front<br />
porch. It was like the firing of a starting<br />
pistol. The race was on.<br />
Typically, I’m the first one in the water,<br />
but it looked like this year my wife<br />
had beaten me to the punch.<br />
Here’s how it usually starts. I’m<br />
wandering around the grocery store, and<br />
I stumble onto those adorable mini pumpkins<br />
in the produce section. They show<br />
up earlier than you would expect, when<br />
it’s still 100 degrees out and fall is the last<br />
thing on your mind. Just looking at them<br />
conjures memories of crisp, fall evenings<br />
and the promise of sweet relief from the<br />
heat.<br />
Before I know what I’m doing, I’ve<br />
tossed a handful of tiny gourds into my<br />
cart, telling myself it’s for the children.<br />
Kids love pumpkins, right?<br />
You know who else loves pumpkins?<br />
My wife. So, she grabs some at the farmers<br />
market or Walmart (or both!) because<br />
it’s time to decorate for fall, she says. See,<br />
these aren’t functional pumpkins. You<br />
can’t carve them or make pies out of them<br />
or anything. They’re for ambience.<br />
But, of course, it doesn’t end there.<br />
When my daughters were little, they<br />
would take field trips to the pumpkin<br />
patch and contribute to the madness by<br />
bringing back pumpkins of their own.<br />
However, these school events do not count<br />
for our annual family pumpkin patch trip<br />
because the family didn’t do it together.<br />
Sure, by this point, we would already<br />
have plenty of pumpkins at our<br />
house, but the family trip is about making<br />
memories. It just so happens that along<br />
the way, we pick up four more pumpkins.<br />
To make matters worse, we were<br />
driving through the country a few years<br />
ago and stumbled onto the mother lode, a<br />
self-serve, roadside pumpkin stand.<br />
It was a huge wagon overflowing<br />
with piles of pumpkins of every shape<br />
Pumpkin Palooza<br />
and size, and they were dirt cheap. When<br />
you see a deal like that, you’re practically<br />
wasting money if you don’t buy them.<br />
The pumpkin wagon became another annual<br />
tradition.<br />
Oh, and don’t forget our school’s fall<br />
festival. Guess what they do there? Paint<br />
pumpkins, and lots of them. Sometimes<br />
there are even leftovers that the festival<br />
workers try to pawn off on unsuspecting<br />
families, so they don’t have to take them<br />
home themselves. And who is the first<br />
family to accept such an offer?<br />
Ours, of course, because, hey, you<br />
can’t pass up free pumpkins, right?<br />
Did I mention the fact that one of<br />
my daughters has a birthday in the middle<br />
of <strong>Oct</strong>ober? Hmm, what kind of fun<br />
kid activity can you do in mid-<strong>Oct</strong>ober, I<br />
wonder? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist<br />
to figure it out.<br />
Decorate pumpkins!<br />
This is totally different than the<br />
pumpkin painting at school, though, because<br />
we use glitter and sequins and other<br />
fancy gourd decor to bling out our birthday<br />
pumpkins like nobody’s business.<br />
See, I told you. We have a problem.<br />
We’re pumpkin hoarders. By the time we<br />
make it to Halloween, our house is buried<br />
in pumpkins. And we love it!<br />
However, once we hit November,<br />
pumpkins are the last thing on our minds.<br />
Sure, we may keep a few around for<br />
Thanksgiving decorations, but now it’s<br />
time to move on to Christmas and our autumn<br />
obsession fades away until the next<br />
year.<br />
I guess that’s human nature. The<br />
things we’re into tend to come and go<br />
based on our season in life. That’s one of<br />
the many ways we’re different from God.<br />
The Bible says that God has an obsession<br />
too, but it’s not limited to one season.<br />
God’s obsession is people. In Luke 15,<br />
Jesus told three stories about something<br />
that was lost: a coin, a sheep and a son.<br />
However, these weren’t just stories about<br />
lost items, animals and children. They<br />
were stories about the people they mattered<br />
to who were desperate to recover<br />
them and bring them home.<br />
Jesus’ point was that that’s how<br />
God feels about us. He has no desire to<br />
fill his yard with pumpkins, but He does<br />
want to fill His house with people, all<br />
kinds of people. It doesn’t matter where<br />
we’ve been or what we’ve done, God has<br />
a place for us with Him. So, on those days<br />
when you feel lonely or left out or lost,<br />
remember that there is a God who loves<br />
you, who’s pursuing you and wants you<br />
to know you never have to walk through<br />
this life alone.how old you are. •<br />
Photo credit: Debbie Galbraith / shutterstock.com<br />
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