The one key thing my wife taught me to do after her death
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My loving wife left me with a legacy that is now part of my daily life – prayer. I sit in her red wingback chair and make the time for God that we should all add to our lives.
Then, for the first time in 30 months, since the doctor had told us of Bobbie’s Stage IV diagnosis, I cried. Not just a trickle down my cheek. I really cried. Sobs from deep inside a place I rarely visited. The experience was cathartic and sweet. Really, it was. Robert Wolgemuth is a former president of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the founder of the literary agency Wolgemuth & Associates, and the author of more than 20 books. His latest is "FINISH LINE: Dispelling Fear, Finding Peace, and Preparing for the End of Your Life" (HarperCollins Christian Publishers, March 7) For more click here.
My late wife and I first purchased the chair sometime in the ’80s from a friend in the furniture business in downtown Chicago. Originally covered in bright yellow fabric (Bobbie was a big fan of bright colors), its first home was our living room in Geneva, Illinois.
Bobbie loved to begin each day perched in that quiet place, reading her Bible and praying. She called this chair her early morning "altar."