I just wanted to take a moment and honor my Dad, He died in 2006 and even though I only knew him from a distance what i saw and by the testimonies at his funeral he was a courageous , God loving human, full of compassion for all around him. You see he was a true genius and that showed up very early in his life. His love for math and the science open many doors in this country and at a very young age he was being recognized as one of the top scientist. But he did not know God , his God was education, learning, especially the highest levels taught in this country. My mom told me the story of how several professors in different departments called her in to persuade my dad to go into their field. He was a research chemist that was also working on a perfect time through math. That was his down time, pleasure, doing math problems that were pages long. You get the picture. God had a different plan for my father a very hard plan. He became mentally ill so bad was the system at that time in the early 50's that he was force to endure many things in a state mental hospital ( an experimental research hospital to learn more about mental ill and how to control this devastating illness) for 11 years. Our family went from an extremely positive future,in the world , to one of very harsh impossible odds of any future at all, as we moved into the poorest area of town with nothing my mom 6 months pregnant with no education, no car , no wash machine, no furniture but a legless couch, and 5 children under 12 years old. Thats not the story I want to express here today. My dad lost He lost everything his wife, family, career and mind. He went through many experimental treatments in that hospital for the mentally ill. In the ninth year of his hospitalization, (he told me this story in 1975), Jesus Christ came to him and he became a born again believer and started reading a Bible. He never stopped reading his Bible until the day he died. After two more years he was released and lived with my mother for the next 30 years. She waited for him. He served the Lord and at his funeral thats what people said as he touch so many lives with Gods love. He loved God. he was never cured of his mental illness, took his medication all the rest of his life. His life was a serious struggle combating schizophrenia. We think so differently than the Lord, maybe God graduated him to a higher calling with this most intense struggle. Rather than being successful as a great scientist. I don't know. He did live a humble compassionate life. A man who love God and had a deeper understanding of Christ through the love he displayed to other. He was real he had been through the firer and came out with Jesus Christ. So the next time you encounter a mentally ill person I hope you rethink what the world teaches us and maybe you will think about what God worked in my dad. thanks for listening peggy