"The retreat was a fantastic one for me - one of the best that I have recently worked on. After the retreat, I got a letter from one of the young ladies who worked with me on the retreat. She said that as she was riding home with two of the directors and another young lady that they were talking about me. They decided that I was like an uncle to them and they decided to call me Uncle Dave - not the Grampa Dave that I thought that I was."
"My question after that was, 'What is an uncle supposed to do?' Now I suppose that's a strange question for me to ask after having been an 'uncle' for so many years already. So I thought that I should do what I did on the retreat for the young people there."
"There was a sort of theme song shared on the retreat that was really special for me. It touched my heart. It was titled 'I'll Stand By You.' I don't even know who sang the song but its words spoke about someone standing by another no matter what the other said or did. This CD that I am sending to you is the only CD/cassette that I could find in Mankato with a song of that title on it. Because this CD is 'your gift' to open, my hope is that this is the song that I heard. As you listen to the words of the song, imagine that I (as an 'uncle from the retreat') speak its words to you ..."