Veteran visits wife's grave over 1,300 times
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🗓️ 28 December 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Veteran visits wife's grave over 1,300 times. |
| 0:04.5 | This is Jim Denison's daily article for Friday, December 28, 2018. |
| 0:09.6 | Ted Richardson is a 93-year-old veteran. |
| 0:12.6 | He and Florence met as teens, then he left to serve as a Marine in World War II. |
| 0:17.2 | But he took her picture with him everywhere he went. |
| 0:19.8 | They got married after the war. Ted says |
| 0:21.6 | Florence always took care of him for 72 years, so now it's his turn to take care of her. Ted |
| 0:27.6 | visits his wife's grave six days a week, without fail, taking three buses to get there. He |
| 0:32.5 | cares for it meticulously, trimming weeds and brushing away leaves. He has already arranged for his church to bring flowers to Florence's grave after he dies. |
| 0:41.2 | He has visited over 1,300 times. |
| 0:44.0 | He says it's worth it to be close to the love of his life. |
| 0:47.5 | As you look back over 2018, what events come to mind? |
| 0:50.9 | If you're like most of us, your challenges and problems loom large. |
| 0:54.0 | Someone you love passed away their death marked your life. |
| 0:57.0 | History feels the same way. |
| 0:59.0 | When we think of David, Goliath has followed immediately by Bathsheba. |
| 1:02.0 | Our first thought about Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy is usually their assassination. |
| 1:07.0 | But we don't have to let our losses define us. |
| 1:09.0 | Like Ted Richardson, we can choose to honor the past |
| 1:11.9 | by the way we live in the present, and we can view adversity as the opportunity it is. In Zechariah 13, |
| 1:18.1 | the Lord foretells of a day when one-third of the people will survive the judgment to come. |
| 1:22.4 | Then, as it's written in verse 9, I will put this third into the fire and refine them as one refined |
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