We’ve always been an odd sort of couple in some ways. Just ask anyone who knows us. Over fifty years of marriage we’ve tended to commit to, get involved in, plan, orchestrate, and participate in just about every opportunity to serve that came our way. Now, some might say we over committed, that we stretched ourselves too thin, paid a cost that was too great. While that may in some small way be true (you might want to get our kids opinion) we probably wouldn’t change a thing. Most of this over achieving practice began early in our marriage. It just sorta crept up on us. We became heavily involved in church activities including picking up kids on the church bus, three times a week, working at church camp, teaching classes, participating in Bible hour and vacation Bible school, and then leading the youth group. I can’t even tell you how many pots of chili I made on a very small stove at our fall retreats or how many miles Big Al drove that barely ...