A Dad Brag

Permit me a brief brag-blog about my father.

Dad will be 76 in a few months. He has lived with Crohn's disease for the last 30 of those years. As I write, he is somewhere in rural southern Thailand cooking hot meals for tsunami victims and the relief workers trying to help them.

He's part of a disaster relief ministry outreach of the Southern Baptist Convention. Over the last couple of years he and the team he leads have served up meals and encouragement for hurricane victims in Florida, smoke jumpers in New Mexico and workers sifting through WTC rubble at Fresh Kills Island, New York.

(Did I mention that Dad's a white-knuckle flyer?)

Hat's off to you Dad! Come home safe.