Brothers, we are quickly approaching the end of 2007 and what a good year it has been. With the beginning of 2008, I am looking forward to my installation as the Venerable Master of the Louisville Lodge of perfection. Hopefully, I will serve you and the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry as well as my predecessors have served you and our great fraternity.

With a new year comes new opportunities and the potential for continued growth in our membership, but it takes committment from each of us to make good things better. Should any of you have suggestions for programs that you think would be enjoyable when we have family dinners, please feel free to let me know your thoughts on this matter. In addition, I would like to know any thoughts you might have that you think would be beneficial in any of our endeavors in the Valley of Louisville.

If you have not attended stated meetings or reunions for a while, we would like to see you and maybe you can get into the habit of regular attendance and you might find yourself even enjoying occasional participation in the conferral of degrees during reunions. While I am on the subject of reunion, let’s take a quick look at the definition as found in that handy old Webster’s Dictionary. One of the definitions found there is that a reunion is a reuniting of persons after seperation. Many of us have attended class reunions, military unit reunions, family reunions and numerous other types of reunions, and usually have a good time. If you have been away for awhile, then come on back and get reunited, reaquainted and find out what you have been missing in fellowship and friendship. But you do not have to wait for a reunion class --- there is always the second and fourth Thursdays of each month.

In closing, I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you and yours, Happy Holidays and a Joyful New Year.

Something to think about. “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.” Mark Twain

Regards,
Jim Stephens, 32° KCCH