ASTONISHMENT AND AWE

I got a comment on my last post from Shari http://sharisnewblog.blogspot.com/.

We had communicated before, and she had communicated with my wife, Bonnie, about her dad.

But being the sort of addle-headed person I am, I had heard without hearing (more correctly: read without reading).

Turns out that Shari is the daughter of a radio announcer who recently went on to be with the Lord.

Turns out also that her father and I (long before he was her father) had spent time together in my home in Warner Robins, Georgia, playing radio announcer with an old Revere reel-to-reel tape recorder which we discovered generated RF (radio frequency).

When one spoke into the microphone, the signal could be picked up as far away as the house next door.

We played music for the guy next door, who could pick us up on his bedroom radio.

Interestingly, both of us actually ended up in radio, though neither seems to have known that about the other.

His name was Seymor C. Holmes III, but nobody really knew him by any name other than "Skip."

When I knew Skip, "rought around the edges" would have been the kindest thing one could say about him.

He tended toward the profane, smoked like a chimney and I'm not really certain what we had in common enough to be friends.

Not that we were close, nevertheless, he was occasionally at my house and we messed around with things that teens in those days messed around with.

Mostly, I think, I served as a diversion for him.

We did not stay in touch.

According to his own testimony, he did not "grow into a fine young man," but drifted downhill until late in life.

And then...Oh but then.

Something happened in Skip's life that you need to hear about.

In a presentation a couple of years before his death, he gave his testimony.

You can hear it here (click on the picture with the cross):

http://myspace.com/skipholmes

And I recommend that you do.

It is some 28 minutes long, so set aside some time, but it is worth every second of it.

I was moved to tears as I listened, and I don't do that often.

Every day, when I sign off my air shift at the Christian radio station (heard online at www.kingdom.fm, I say, "The Lord willing, I'll be back here again tomorrow, and if you'll join me, we'll praise God together through music and the Word. Have a beautiful day, today. Make it a Christ filled day, and I'll see you here, tomorrow. But if I don't see you here, I'll see you over there."

Skip Holmes, wait for me, Brother in Christ. I won't see you over here, but I sure do look forward to seeing you over there.