MARCH 2026 NEWSLETTER
March 2026 Newsletter
Robert Lindenberger
321-328-4935
Expas65@yahoo.com
It will be 7 years since my wife
Marian graduated to be with our Heavenly Father. On Thanksgiving day I will be all alone. (This was written 4 years ago)
Lord God, creator of everything,
You are a great, big, wonderful God, and greatly to be praised. Today is Thanksgiving Day. It is a day that people all over our country
get together and say Thank You for fellowship with each other and with
family. On Thanksgiving Day, I am all
alone.
So, I’m gonna thank you for
sending your Son to this sin-cursed earth to suffer and die and rise again so
we can have life and life more abundant.
But God, I miss Marian sooo
much. I wish she were here to celebrate
with me. I remember the family
get-together, and we sat down to Turkey, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob,
cranberries, and pumpkin pie. And I can’t forget dinner rolls right out of the
oven -poppen-boy fresh. LORD, I’m
getting hungry just talking about it.
But I can remember her starting to bake that turkey last night, and she
made me peel the potatoes and empty the trash, so we would have a clean house
when the kids come. She used to say,
“It’s in the Bible that cleanliness is next to godliness.” And I always
corrected her, No! That was Martin Luther.”
God, I’m determined to have a
wonderful day—it’s just you and me. To
have a wonderfully good day would be to KNOW you better and Your Presence cause I certainly do miss
Marian.
Here is another share from 4 years
ago: I survived seven years of living alone after my better half went to
Heaven. We are not promised an easy
life, but God uses our trials and hurts to accomplish His will. Difficult experiences are given to us for our
good, for the benefit of others, and God’s glory. I have experienced the loss of two wives. One is in divorce, and the other is
graduating to glory. Both caused
excruciating pain. In my understanding,
the first one I handled failed miserably, left my faith, and returned to the
world. God never left me, but I left
Him. It was during this time that I met
my second wife, Marian. We became
friends and then married. I was the
prodigal son, but God was the hound of Heaven and brought me back to his loving
arms to hold and handle for the rest of my life. Marian and I worked with mentally handicapped
people. She was the facility manager of
five grown men. They called her
mom. One day on her day off, we went to
a flea market; her five men were brought there too. One of the men was so glad to see her, ran to
her to give her a hug, lifted his feet off the ground, and broke her back. So Marian (and I) spent the last 15 years of
our lives together in pain. Each day we
prayed together and drew closer and closer to our LORD and Savior. We prayed together for divine healing, and it
came on 10/12/14.
I
know it’s difficult to shift our focus in times of overwhelming difficulty and
intense suffering. The pain screams out
for attention, and the troubles bombard our minds and emotions with anxiety.
Yet, that’s when we most need to sit down with Scripture and pour out our
hearts to God. He invites us to cast all
our concerns upon Him because He cares for us. (1 Peter 5:7). Every trial you experience is an opportunity
to believe what the Bible says about God and look beyond our circumstances to
His loving wisdom and good purpose. And
the more you learn to know you have a heavenly Father, the more content you
will be.
February 3 was my 91st birthday. And let me tell you, there is a difference in
lifestyle. At 82, I went to an ALS fundraiser and walked 2 miles pushing my
son's mother in a wheelchair. Now at 91,
it is hard to walk without a walker. I
have come through a hard time in my life, but allow me to say I have never been
closer to my LORD and SAVIOR than I am right now. Psalm 23:6 MSG says, “Your beauty and love
chase after me every day of my life. I‘m
back home in the house in the house of God for the rest of my life.”
All this makes me yell, GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME; ALL
THE TIME, GOD IS GOOD! AMEN?
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