From Experience to Meaning

I read your blog with intrest.Knowing you and seeing your willingness to learn and
to help and get involved has been heart warming.I wish other new Brothers were as
eager to learn as you seem to be.
Brother W.L.Wotipka was my Secretary the year I was W:.M:. he was a good man and Mason.
I could always get a good answer from him.He is greatly missed.We now have another very
dedicated Brother.Dorsel White.Brother Dorsel was always ready and most often had things
done before I asked.Being a Secretary a few times myself.I really apprciate his"Get er done"
attitude.Always a pleasure to see you and your Brother in Lodge.Danke.

Thomas B.Marshall,PM
Brookshire # 1066
Texas

I enjoyed reading your blog as to your progression from an EA to MM, i myself traveled that similar path, i myself was raised by a past grand master and was honored to have him do that for me, and it was my mentor that i have such a profound respect and caring for, although many of the brothers were there to help me in my progression, it was my mentor that went beyond in helping me and for that, I felt to honor him was a must and in doing so, I worked every moment that I had to learning the craft and in doing so I now reside as J.W. of our lodge and participate in the initiation of degrees and I more often than not refer to him as a father than as a brother.

I bring greetings from St. John's Lodge #10. AASR, Maryland.

I'm touched by the sincerity in your experience of raising to the sublimed degree.

I experienced a similar feeling of re-birth and relieve. Its in itself a fulfilling passage in our travel.

I'm glad to be able to felliowship with you all, my brother.

Travel light.

I can't say that I was raised by a PGM or a PDDGM, but I can say I was raised by a friend. Someone in lodge who truly treated me like family. I explain my relationship with him as being similar to the one I had with my father-in-law before he passed away. This man was truly a great man in my eyes and though he has gone on to receive his wages from the Master Builder he will always be with me. I remember being initiated and how welcomed I was made to feel by the Senior Deacon. I also can say that as a man I was saved late in life and the feelings I had then and the feelings I had when raised were both so close to the same that I knew I was changed forever. I have stayed active in the lodge and I hope through my actions I can get others to stay active as well. I love teaching others and making a difference in their lives. And so though our paths are different, I feel from your post that we have the same feelings within our hearts. May your masonic journey be long and filled with joy.