As we began a new year, George read to us Psalm 139 which reminds us we are wonderfully made and everyone is worthy of love.
SLIDE GEORGE READ
I want to feel that I am thoroughly and completely understood so that now and then, I can take my guard down, and look out around me, and not feel that I will be destroyed with my defenses down. I want to feel completely vulnerable and absolutely secure that I can run the risk of radical exposure and know that the eye that beholds my vulnerability will not step on me.
There is in every person that which waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in himself. There is in every person that which waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in other people. And when these two sounds come together, this is the music God heard when he said, "Let us make them in our image.”
—Howard Thurman, 1980 speech at Spelman College
