He never got too old to laugh or play with some of his favorite toys. He loved his talking “Bubbas,” and his stuffed gobbling turkeys, and was famous for lots of what we lovingly refer to as Glennisms. When we were little and went to him crying because of a scrape or bruise he always sympathetically said, “That will feel better when it quits hurting!” At restaurants, we knew that his order was going to be either hummingbird livers on rye or a peananarocious on a supergobsloscious depending upon his appetite.  He was a character, indeed!

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He loved others and he loved his family, but there is One he loved most: Jesus Christ. More important to him than pulling out pictures and bragging about how cute we all are (or were) when talking to someone (and he talked to everyone) he’d more than likely pull out his business cards and tell them how they could get to know the love of his life, Jesus Christ.

 

In his last years, he spent his energy sharing his faith. After retirement, he designed new business cards that featured praying hands on the left and his name and address on the right, along with his favorite Bible verse: John 3:16. He always kept one ready to hand out to anyone he struck up a conversation with who needed encouragement or wanted to hear more about God’s love and amazing grace.

 

After his death, I picked up the Bible he read every day and I randomly opened it to a page with just one highlighted verse: Matthew 25:21, which says, "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'"

 

We believe that Dad has entered into the joy of the Lord.  Our prayer is that we will faithfully follow his remarkable example by living life fully, laughing hard often, and loving both God and people extravagantly because that, we think, will best honor his beautiful legacy.​