A Simple Dedication
Usually in this space we write about business. Either what we know from our own business experience or what we have learned that we believe is applicable to the business climate. But today I want to tell you about a lady, my lady.
My name is Dewey Kearney and my daughter Leslie and I co-own and manage this site. Let me tell you about the Lady that I just mentioned. Her name was Kathy and she and I were married for 45 years before she passed away in March 2006.
Kathy was one of the most fantastic women I have ever known, not just because she put up with me for all those years or because she worked with me in business for 15+ years, or because she helped me raise three great children. She was a fantastic lady because she loved God and put him first. Now before your eyes glaze over please let me explain just who Kathy Kearney was.
Besides being a wife, mother, grandmother and all that goes with it she was a playwrite, lecturer, teacher and musician. Everything she did she did with her own unique flair, and to the best of her ability. Knowing that she was representing Christ to those around her, she was always gracious and loving. She loved a great joke (puns were her favorites) and she lit up a room when she came in!
She was an English major in college and that was her first love, in fact she was a wordsmith extraordinaire. She was a published writer in the Christian marketplace and also had her own repertoire company. She wrote and directed all the plays and melodrama’s they produced. In between times she taught Bible studies, was a seminar speaker, loved her husband and raised her family. What a Lady!
She wrote many short stories and articles that were never published - because the Christian marketplace pays so little - and that she, being the artist she was, wrote for the joy of writing whether published or not. Kathy had the ability to take a subject and find a Spiritual application. Her short story “Believe The Compass” is an example that best describes this ability.
She, along with a Christian Psychologist, were in the process of collaborating for a book that never was published. At least three chapters were completed prior to her death and submitted to every major Christian publishing house in the U.S. but was rejected because as they put it, “the subject was too controversial”. Those will be on her website within a short time.
I recently posted a website dedicated to Kathy and her work. It is about 95% complete but it is on the web. The URL is: www.firequillpublications.com - I hope that you will take a few minutes to be inspired. She was quite a Lady! And she was MY LADY! Wow, was I ever blessed!
Wanted to take a break from normal posts about credit and debt to just pause and be thankful for this great country of ours. And to think about how WE as individuals can make a difference in the lives of people around us.