Leaving Normal Behind

While on staff in a different position I would occasionally sent out emails to our group. (I called them my “diatribes”.) I found this in my email archives today and thought I would post it. A good reminder for me today

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If you responded to the subject line appropriately then you might be asking, “Who is Sally?” So glad you asked! Sally sold sea shells on the sea shore. Not quite the answer you were looking for, hmmm? Let me tell you a story …

… A long time ago in a small town in the neighboring state of Arkansas, a young girl named Christy took speech therapy classes. It was all fun and games as long as she thought CandyLand was the reason she got to leave class. But alas, there was an ulterior motive … the speech therapist was making sure she could pronounce various letters and letter combinations. Little did she (okay, “I”) know that some 25 years later there would still be frustrations with pronunciation of these combinations. Even with years of practice.

Continue reading Sally…

Wanted to share this website for those who might be interested in a current justice issue that the church is slowly grabbing onto. I’ve followed IJM for a while and a friend at the church is passionate about this organization as well. It’s not a pretty issue: human trafficking and slavery. I’m actually going to be able to visit a local organization (Mosaic) this week that works with the same issues.

http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/Default.aspx