DON’T YOU WISH YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH THIS?
When I read the following item in the Jul 11 issue of Time magazine about IBM Chairman John Opel, I must confess the grass looked awfully good on the other side of the fence. Pastor, I know you probably can’t use this in your own ministerial strategy– but just admire it! This is a new dimension of marital cooperation. “Opel spends much of his non-IBM time with his wife. Three mornings a week they are up at 5:30 and drive 20 miles to do aerobic and exercise- machine workouts ‘at a place where they don’t know me.’ The Opels fish together, go to the opera together and watch birds together. They also work together to protect their privacy. On the rare occasion when a reporter calls him at home, Carole Opel answers politely and promises to bring her husband to the phone. But then she sets down the receiver without ever telling him. Callers get…
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