I was a commissioner to that General Assembly and my wife and I both marched and stood in solidarity with our co-workers who were working along the southern border. It was a very powerful assembly!
Right after the Hope book came out, my group of pastors and Christian educators, eleven souls who are treasured friend-colleagues and who've known and worked with each other for around thirty years (at least), read and discussed it. We are all (mostly) retired from formal employment, but still active in various faith-involvements. This last week has been a reminder of the gifts you brought us through its pages, MaryAnn, and thank you for keeping HOPE before us in these grief-saturated days. And the playlist from Zephyr Point you included: just wonderful. Music speaks especially deeply now.
I I also. I also was a Commissioner to the General Assembly in St. Louis and marched to the Hall of Justice with the funds collected for bail. Just yesterday, I was reading about hope in Arthur Brooks and Oprah’s Build the Life You Want. They talk of Hope’s involving personal agency to give it power.
I was a commissioner to that General Assembly and my wife and I both marched and stood in solidarity with our co-workers who were working along the southern border. It was a very powerful assembly!
It was a powerful GA indeed! Mostly ;-)
True... after all, it was a church business meeting 😉
Right after the Hope book came out, my group of pastors and Christian educators, eleven souls who are treasured friend-colleagues and who've known and worked with each other for around thirty years (at least), read and discussed it. We are all (mostly) retired from formal employment, but still active in various faith-involvements. This last week has been a reminder of the gifts you brought us through its pages, MaryAnn, and thank you for keeping HOPE before us in these grief-saturated days. And the playlist from Zephyr Point you included: just wonderful. Music speaks especially deeply now.
It sure does... glad you enjoyed. I wish I had stories behind some of these songs!
And thanks for the kind words. That means a lot.
I I also. I also was a Commissioner to the General Assembly in St. Louis and marched to the Hall of Justice with the funds collected for bail. Just yesterday, I was reading about hope in Arthur Brooks and Oprah’s Build the Life You Want. They talk of Hope’s involving personal agency to give it power.
Always so helpful and inspiring. Thank you, MaryAnn!
Thanks for reading!