The Bucket List That Never Filled
In 2014, Marcus Elliot retired from thirty-one years at a packaging plant in Toledo, Ohio. He had saved carefully. He had plans. A screened-in porch....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Haggai 1:5-6.
In 2014, Marcus Elliot retired from thirty-one years at a packaging plant in Toledo, Ohio. He had saved carefully. He had plans. A screened-in porch. Season tickets to the Mud Hens. A bass boat he had been eyeing at Cabela's for three years. One by one, he checked every item off. By the following spring, he had the porch, the tickets, and the boat sitting in his driveway on a trailer with custom rims.…
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