Our dear sailing friend Len died several weeks ago. He was sixty years young. At his memorial service, my husband said Len was the most beautifully complex contradiction of a human he had ever known. More insecure, more bold, more obstinate, more open, more brilliant, more foolish, more connected to death, and more alive to the resurrection than anyone we have ever known.
Len and his wife Sheri led pack horse trips into the Cascade Mountains in Washington State after they married right out of high school. He was a cowboy, a chef, a brilliant designer of commercial kitchens, a tender husband, father, and grandfather. He was a man who got his hands dirty every day in the Kingdom labor of helping people find their way through the dark domain of addiction, homelessness, heartache, and despair. He and Sheri were made for one another. There was nothing that he and Sheri could not do! They were among the most brilliant couples we have ever had the privilege to know. Len was a wild one and his most passionate joy was to introduce people to Jesus Christ.
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