Honoring a story with your time shines a light into the darkness. It helps prevent the psychological vandalism that happens when we withhold dignity from other human beings, created in the image of God just like us.
It’s odd, but after I started looking for beauty, I found it all around. Our Brady Street beauty is a brand all its own, but I love it!
A while later, perhaps the next day, I found another gem. Tucked in a folder of correspondence between Robert Schulz and President Eisenhower, I found a brief note in the President’s handwriting. IN THE PRESIDENT’S HANDWRITING, people. Do you have any idea – ANY IDEA, I SAY! – how thrilled I was to find this?!
It’s a tricky thing to bring life to the long dead.
It stretched me to give up the new opportunity. But it wasn’t worth it, and I’m glad I didn’t push ahead.
“There’s nothing like that, where you find something that you know is worth doing and you know it is what God wants done, and you love doing it. You can just pour your life into it. That is just amazing. Everybody needs to do that!”