Irv and I met in November l967.  In the spring of 1968 we became
committed to marry.  Our wedding was in November 2008.  Thus we have
been committed for forty years, the Biblical generation some of our
Dove teachers talk about.

Did we wander in the wilderness during these years.  Indeed.  Constant
moving, first within the Seattle metro area, then to other states.
Since 1999 our base has been in New Mexico, in the home of the atom
bomb, Los Alamos, where our son and his sons live.  We have been trying
to get back to the Promised Land, Seattle, ever since the Cerro Grande
fire of May 2000, but not able to do it except for extended visits.

I thought some of you Doves would find our forty years' wandering in
the wilderness to have some symbolic significance, at least to us.

In the first part of our wandering we played with the Golden Calf.  We
were in the New Age of meditation and occult study.  But Father stopped
this with a bang.  Although both of us had earlier been in Christian
faiths, we studied Judaism and participated in that for a short time,
but our particular Jewish synagogue was largely secular.  We went to
the Catholic church for a while, which had changed since my earlier
involvement, but alas, in our area it had changed to radically New Age.
  Again, we moved on, to evangelical Protestantism, studying the Bible
in depth at last, following Benny Hinn to many crusades, as we also
were Pentecostal.  We were forced out of our church in Seattle by
several desperate occurrences, and left the area, only to be caught in
the Cerro Grande fire which ravaged Los Alamos and the surrounding
mountains.

Now we are in the desert, the high desert, still, awaiting the coming
of the Bridgegroom and benefitting from the teachings of the Doves.  We
belong to no church now, although we see merit in several.  We await in
a largely hidden place.