My Best Friend Kevin

Day #10: My best friend, Kevin Roberts.
Kevin and I met when we were only 5-years old. We both lived on Maloneyville Rd. only one mile apart from each other. When our parents first introduced us we hated each other... for about an hour. Kevin was tall and skinny, I was short and fat. We called each other names and refused to play together. Finally out of our disgust for each other we began chasing each other through the yard. After a few rounds of hitting punching and name calling, we became best friends for life. I guess they call that BFFL's nowadays...

Kevin came from the same kind of Christian family that I came from; hard working, God fearing, poor country folks. We had so much in common it wasn't even funny. From the day we met we were inseparable. If I wasn't at his house, he was at mine. We would walk the railroad tracks or ride our bikes to each others houses all the time. We both went to the same school as well. Our summers were filled with camping, fishing, hunting, exploring, trespassing, and innocent mischief.

I could fill page after page of all of the stories of our adventures together, and in fact, if you want to read about a lot of them just visit this link on my Tug's Life blog: http://www.tugslife.com/search/label/Kevin and you can read all about our various crimes and the times he literally saved my life!

When I met my wife the first person I wanted to introduce her to was Kevin. I always wanted to get his approval on everything, and he likewise. It's funny how God works things out because the next thing you know Kevin meets my wife's sister, Martha, at our wedding and they fall in love and get married too. You could make a great Hallmark movie out of our lives I suppose. So not only is Kevin my best friend but he is also my brother-in-law!

Speaking of God's mysterious ways, as it turns out Kevin and I were both called to preach. He has pastored for about 20-years, just recently giving up the church he had been at for many years, and I have been preaching/pastoring for about 15-years. It's great to get together with Kevin these days and talk about things of the Bible and ministering. I wish we had more opportunities to do that but due to life, jobs, and families we just don't have much time to get together.

I guess the thing that I admire most about Kevin is that he is man of great humility. He gets a lot of that from his dad. Kevin has much to be proud of in life but he doesn't go about bragging. He preaches with great humbleness and love for Christ. He has been a faithful worker at KUB for many years, even after nearly losing his life in an electrical accident, he remains a good employee. He has raised a great family and remained faithful in the ministry.