I was recently appointed to serve for one year on a
"Faith and Values Advisory Board" for our local newspaper. We meet
once each month to discuss life in the community and how people of faith might
be "view the issues" facing our community. This month was my first
column, and I thought I would share it with my fans here as well.... I pray my
words are a source of comfort and hope to anyone in our city who might read
them....and you never know......by God's grace maybe someone will be inspired
to Live A New Life In Christ by the column.
For the past four years I have been blessed with the opportunity to participate on a diversity panel along with several religious leaders from the Pee Dee area. The panel is part of the Building Bridges program sponsored each spring by the Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce. Each of the four years, I was asked to speak about what was needed to build bridges of diversity for the greater community, and each of the four years, I have responded with the same answer. “We need to be OK with allowing each other to be who we genuinely are.” The reality of being genuine requires something that, quite frankly, goes against our immediate impulse.
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