Is the long haul gone?
I mean people staying married for fifty years.
Pastors staying at churches for forty years.
People living in the same home for sixty years.
Families driving cars until the wheels fall off.
Guys carrying the same pocket knife for thirty years.
I’ve been wearing the same baseball cap for fifteen years.
Does America still produce quality goods that last decades?
Can a friendship still last a lifetime?
Joel Stiff's Adventure 
Long hauls are decisions and choices. If we were still on the coast, we would be in the same house we purchased in 1986; Lord willing, we will die with the house we now own; we do not change churches unless we move; we do drive cars til “the wheels fall off.” We do not have gobs of friends, but cherish those we do have. We plan on serving God til we die. Hopefully, our kids consider us stable folk!
Oh, that sounded a bit boastful – was not at all meant to be. We have the good Lord and our parents to thank for all of that!!