Lawrence Presbyterian Manor
Unshakeable Hope By Rev. Richard Russell MARCH 2023
Residents Phil and Patricia Anderson celebrate 60 years of marriage On February 2nd, Lawrence Presbyterian Manor residents Phil and Patricia Anderson celebrated 60 years of wedded bliss. What began with an unconventional “blind date” while both were students at the University of Kansas has led to decades of happiness. “Someone wanted me to have a date with him and I didn’t really want to,” Patricia recalled. “I said I would go if he got my friend a date.”
Phil and Patricia Anderson
Her friend’s date happened to be Phil Anderson. “About midway through the evening, Phil and I just left, and we haven’t seen the other two since,” Patricia laughed. The pair journeyed as far away as Poughkeepsie, NY before eventually returning to Lawrence. “We just grew up together,” Patricia said. “We were 20 and 21 when we got married so we really did, quite literally, finish growing up together.” The Andersons say choosing Lawrence Presbyterian Manor was easy since Phil’s mother had been a resident years earlier. “It was like coming home in a way,” Patricia said. “The continuum of care, which we have both now used, is so important and we knew that coming in.” Phil’s older brother was also a resident at The Manor. “There’s just a homey feeling and a homey atmosphere at this place,” she recalled. Feb. 2, 1963
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With the coming of Spring later this month we have hope of seeing new life coming from the brown and dreary ground and from the trees. I Rev. Russell have always loved seeing the little flowers, bursting forth from the ground, even when there was still snow, also from the trees that flower, the dogwoods, the red buds, and so many more. It is truly a renewal of hope! I was reading again from the book, “Praying the Promise” written by Max Lucado and Andrea Lucado in which they share about God’s Unshakable Hope and His promises that He gives to us from His Word. One student of the Bible spent a year and a half counting the promises of God and found 7,487 promises! These are promises that give us true hope that Rests in Him. One of my favorite scriptural promises comes from proverbs 3: 56: “Trust in the lord, with all your heart and lean, not into your own understanding in all your ways, submit to him and he will make straight your paths.” We can have unshakable faith when we are trusting in a God that can do all things and a God who wants to care for us in His loving way. Max Lucado uses Psalm 19:1-2, Isaiah 55:8-9, Jeremiah 9:23-24 and Romans 1:19-20 to pray God’s promises back to Him by praying:
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