Judging from your feedback, the gracEmail for May 18, 2008 titled "Knowing One Another" touched a live nerve. Following are a few responses (some edited for space or form); we will share others from time to time. Thanks to all who wrote! * * * "A few weeks ago my husband John needed to see two men about two different matters and he scheduled separate appointments. Eeither one ran late or the other was early, andthe two ended up in his office at the same time. They had not met each other before that day. One had lost a child to cancer a few years ago and was still grieving. The other lost … [Read more...]

Judging from your feedback, the gracEmail for May 18, 2008 titled "Knowing One Another" touched a live nerve. Following are a few responses (some edited for space or form); we will share others from time to time. Thanks to all who wrote! * * * "People everywhere are longing to be known. The desperation of alcohol addiction has led to transforming life-sharing help through Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings since 1935. Yet many churches are still having arms-length meetings with no openings to give anyone Jesus' love." -- Wayne (Wayne7282@msn.com) * * * "All of us have friendships like … [Read more...]

Sara Faye and I participated in our congregation's food-and-fellowship network the other Saturday. It was a joyous event which convicted me regarding the shallowness of my friendship with our hosts Don and his lovely wife Vee. I thought I knew them -- after all, we had exchanged pleasantries almost every Sunday morning for 26 years. I knew, for example, that Don and I shared an emotional bent, that we both appreciated a Eucharistic liturgy borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and that we had been good-natured co-conspirators for many years in trying to add a cross behind the pulpit. I … [Read more...]