Mike

Tom

Heather

Carol

Happy new year! Sorry to hear about your friend.

Art

Sorry to hear about your friend. Thinking of you and praying for you.

Sam

All the best,

Melanie

Michael

Happy New Year to YOU and US. We made it! Like you, the end of the year and the start was filled with notices of dear ones passing on too. Warm thoughts and prayers go your way on the passing of your friend Bob from this life. You sure do look to the Lord for answers, like the words to the song says,

“Why me Lord? What have I ever done
To deserve even one of the pleasures I’ve known
Tell me Lord what did I ever do to deserve loving You
And the kindness You’ve shown

Lord heavenly Jesus, I praise Him so help me Jesus
I know what I am now that I know that I needed You
So help me Jesus, my soul’s in Your hands

Try me Lord, if You think there’s a way
I can ever repay all I’ve taken from You
Maybe Lord I can show someone else
What I’ve been through myself on my way back to You

Lord heavenly Jesus, I praise Him so help me Jesus
I know what I am now that I know that I needed You
So help me Jesus, my soul’s in Your hands

Jesus my soul’s in Your hands

One day you and I friend will know. Sat. before new year’s we attended a funeral for Mario Delatorre who I met in 1962 at my new job in real estate, and we became neighbors and continued doing business together. We would see then occasionally at the Hollywood Bowl for summer concerts. Also on Monday we received a call from a long time friend, Lani Stapp, they are in their 80’s and her husband, Ladell at 85 and still ski’s! Lani called to tell me that our mutual friend Tom Herbert passed way the day before. That can’t be so he’s younger that me! Tom was a fellow member of the awesome Jehu’s Car Club of So Cal- actually it was Echo Park / Silverlake area of Los Angeles. We were named after Jehu in 1 Kings where he is spotted from the fortress wall and identified as one who drives his chariot furiously. Tom drove his prized 1957 Plymouth Fury like that! Our car club plak was of a Charioteer driving a chariot, but in place of a horse was a V-8 engine. We first had club meeting in what had been part of the old Max Sennet Studios; from silent movie days located on Glendale Blvd. It is now a storage facility.

In my business, like as in many, your good customers become your friends. To me a good customer wasn’t one necessarily that gave you a lot of business, but one that gave you all they could direct. Wayne Horino was one of those customers. Last we met was for breakfast at Arthur’s Greatest Breakfast in Town in La Habra and we promised to meet again. We spoke several times by phone – he was a real estate broker and worked from home and we said we would get together again soon. On Monday January 3, 2018 I received an email from his wife – now widow, April giving me the sad news that Wayne had passed unexpectedly on Oct. 20, 2016. I told her that we had breakfast at Arthur’s. She said that was his favorite and he would meet there with a God Son to enjoy a meal and mentor him. His parents were in Taiwan. That sounded just like the man I remembered. Good memories of both Wayne and Mario. The main memory is how much their families loved them. That speaks volumes.

Here is one more thing that might have been added to Things to Tell Your Son – and all Friends. I am so grateful that God gave me one wife and that is Linda Belle for my wife for life.

When you contemplate divorce remember this:

Your wife’s parents (Or husband for daughters)

will always be your children’s grampa and gramma.

They will still be part of your family and your life forever – ‘until death do us part’.

Holidays can be trying at times – but add 2 families to the mix and ….

One of the things often overlooked is what the Bible tells us:

“God Hates Divorce.”

Blessings my brother,

(:>}) – Chuck

Joel