This email, from one Charity Landis, makes me cry a lot. I've read it everyday since she sent it, and I have never not cried over it. It might make some of you cry also, but for different reasons. Like that you also wish I would be these things.
It makes me jealous of myself. I want to be this guy when I grow up! Until then, it's nice that people like Charity give me this huge reputation to live up to.
From that Charity:
I decided to put this in a top 10 format, because I'm kind of bored and it amuses me:
10) Your aversion to laws. It makes me feel like there is logic behind what I just thought were rebellious tendencies in my own heart.
9) Your honesty. Especially when you're feeling scared, or frustrated, or extremely tiny in the face of a gigantic vision. It makes me feel like if you can face a vision that's way too big for you, so can I.
8) Your determination to lead by example (integrity), and (again) your honesty when you're having a hard time with it, or outright mess up.
7) Your blog...haha...it's one of my favorite things to read.
6) Your hugs, and how much I know you love giving them.
5) The way you congratulate me on a good idea, but then proceed to give me another perspective on that idea that I wouldn't have thought of.
4) When I see you pray....I don't know why, but it's so incredibly valuable. Not only to me, but to everyone who follows you.
3) How determined you are to see me succeed....and not just me, everyone around you. When they have a good day, or accomplish something great, you have a way of sharing in that that is incredibly precious to the person you helped.
2) The way you randomly decide to pray for me and whoever I marry....out of nowhere.
1) The way you never miss an opportunity to prophesy over me, call things out in me that I didn't see myself, and encourage the heck out of me until I'm sometimes uncomfortable staying in the room.
I really don't know what I'd do without you.
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Charity has a firm grip of the obvious and a great skill of communicating
ReplyDeleteYou are that guy Gerry. It's great, though, that you're still always striving to be better, when you grow up. :)You are such an encouragement to us all.
ReplyDeleteYou are that guy Gerry. It's great, though, that you're still always striving to be better, when you grow up. :)You are such an encouragement to us all.
ReplyDeleteYou are that guy Gerry. It's great, though, that you're still always striving to be better, when you grow up. :)You are such an encouragement to us all.
ReplyDeleteYou are that guy Gerry. It's great, though, that you're still always striving to be better, when you grow up. :)You are such an encouragement to us all.
ReplyDeleteYou are that guy Gerry. It's great, though, that you're still always striving to be better, when you grow up. :)You are such an encouragement to us all.
ReplyDeleteGod is using you, Gerry. To teach people like me and Charity the things we need to get God's vision done.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you as my mentor, and God bless Charity Landis as the person of integrity that she is!
Pastor Gerry: I learn so much on this blog, I enjoy reading it and it definitely makes me think. Thanks so much for sharing your heart and being vulnerable, open and sensitive to the Holy Spirit. You are an inspiration and a blessing!
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