I’ve been fairly quiet on the board lately. Not really by design. In addition to the absence of my computer, I’ve been very busy in my professional life (I’m a child psychologist) which is usually true, but more so now in the post-9-11 period. Actually, I have to tell you that my experience so far is that children are handling it better than adults. I don’t know if any of you caught David Letterman’s show last night…it was amazing. He talked for 20 minutes, tearing up more than once and saying one of the most profound and encouraging things I’ve heard yet during this crisis. I won’t get it exactly right:
“The most important thing here is courage. Because, as many of you know, courage is what lies behind all decent human behavior. And–I have experience with this kind of thing–As far as I can tell pretending you have courage is a good as the real thing.”
Then Dan Rather came on and HE broke down crying two or three times. It was really quite moving.
So, I’m ok and I’ve been heartened by the interactions on this board. God bless you all and God bless America indeed.
Glad to hear you are well; even more glad that you are using your gifts to help kids.
The quote you posted by David Letterman reminded me of the atmosphere in our church this past Sunday.
As with most churches, I would guess, ours was filled with nearly double the usual attendance. It was clear from many of the new faces that they might not be sure about where they stood in regard to God.
What I said before our opening song was this: “Pray anyway. No matter what you think, or what you may or may not believe, pray anyway. Pray for each other, pray thanksgiving that you are still here to pray. Pray for world peace; not only the world peace that comes from halls of government, but pray for the peace that begins with every one of us walking out of church, our homes, our offices, and treating the very next person we meet with respect, dignity and kindness. Be relentless. Be relentless about prayer and about kindness. Because someone that you are kind to might begin to treat the next person with kindness and respect. This is one of the ways world peace might begin”.
Then we sang, and we prayed.
Peace,
Mark Sackett