My Uncle Jerry

I decided today that I would like to pick a random person to blog about. I think that I will do this every now and then just to give you and idea of the people that I know or grew up with. It will be in no specific order or specific criteria just random. I guess the only requirement is it has to be someone that means something to me.

Today I think that I will write about my Uncle Jerry. My Uncle Jerry is my Dad's Sister's Husband. I do not think that I will be able to describe what he looks like just what it seems to me he is like. My Uncle Jerry is someone that as a kid and as an adult I have always looked up to. When I was a kid, I remember him as always being kind. He is the kind of guy that when you are around him you feel like a million bucks. I remember as a kid watching him on his tractor and milking cows. He seemed like he was 10 feet tall. He always made me feel ten feet tall. He wasn't the kind of Uncle that you loved because he gave you gifts but the kind of Uncle that you loved because he loved you. My Uncle Jerry is Honest and a hard worker. I have always known him to be strong in his faith. I can't remember ever going to that little Antimony Church without watching my Uncle carry more than his weight. I think that he has not only been a strong influence to others in their personal lives but in their spiritual lives as well.

A few years ago my uncle found out he had cancer. He didn't curl up in a ball and give up but he took it on the way he took on life, with hard work, faith, prayers, and humility. He beat it. It was hard to see him move recently from his old homestead to a small city because for me that place was not that place without my Uncle Jerry. As a kid, young man and man I do not remember him ever missing an important event in my life. He was even there when I blessed my boy 5 months ago (which meant a lot to me). There aren't many people in my life that seem immortal but My Uncle Jerry is one of them. I hope one day that I can be the man that he is.