“...a book about connecting with people who we might see as “different” from us in some way...”
While I can’t wait to get my copy of SwH, you already taught me this, Shannan Martin. In 2016, Falling Free landed in my hands at just the right time in my life and helped change the course of what I thought my 5th decade would look like. We now live in a tiny town of 1,000, where we are culturally very different from most of our neighbors, and we have “yard conversations” with people I never would have dreamed would be part of my life. We attend a church where no one looks like us. We talk about subjects that most people would find uncomfortable. But most of all, and this is the part that has made my life so much richer, our hearts almost can’t hold the love we have for those around us.
I'm so very here for this!! My first thought while reading SwH: I love that Shannan writes like she talks (second thought: I miss her face and her voice, it's so dumb that I haven't seen her in so long). I know this isn't what you are here for, but I'm going to say it anyway: I'm really proud of you, friend. I needed this book, I need this podcast/sermon series. I'm grateful for your heart, for your work, for your invitation to draw a wider circle. For your influence that had me sitting in solidarity, praying silently, in ElkCo Superior Court II last week with no other purpose than to be there with someone who had no one else to show up. I am not kidding when I say I literally thought "WWSMD" and then I did it. You will not be at all surprised to learn that while it may have meant not much to the person I was there for, it ended up meaning a lot to me. Go figure.
“...a book about connecting with people who we might see as “different” from us in some way...”
While I can’t wait to get my copy of SwH, you already taught me this, Shannan Martin. In 2016, Falling Free landed in my hands at just the right time in my life and helped change the course of what I thought my 5th decade would look like. We now live in a tiny town of 1,000, where we are culturally very different from most of our neighbors, and we have “yard conversations” with people I never would have dreamed would be part of my life. We attend a church where no one looks like us. We talk about subjects that most people would find uncomfortable. But most of all, and this is the part that has made my life so much richer, our hearts almost can’t hold the love we have for those around us.
I'm so very here for this!! My first thought while reading SwH: I love that Shannan writes like she talks (second thought: I miss her face and her voice, it's so dumb that I haven't seen her in so long). I know this isn't what you are here for, but I'm going to say it anyway: I'm really proud of you, friend. I needed this book, I need this podcast/sermon series. I'm grateful for your heart, for your work, for your invitation to draw a wider circle. For your influence that had me sitting in solidarity, praying silently, in ElkCo Superior Court II last week with no other purpose than to be there with someone who had no one else to show up. I am not kidding when I say I literally thought "WWSMD" and then I did it. You will not be at all surprised to learn that while it may have meant not much to the person I was there for, it ended up meaning a lot to me. Go figure.