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Thoughts to Leave You With

June 25th, 2008 at 5:28 pm by Dee O'Neil Andrews

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. The only profitable relationship to others - and especially to our weaker brethren - is one of love, and that means the will to hold fellowship with them. God himself did not despise humanity, but became man for men's sake.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Letters and Papers From Prison

 We're heading out early in the morning for Biloxi (and the grand hotel Beau Rivage) and this summer's Mississippi Press Association's convention.  So, I wanted to leave you with some insightful and important things to think about  with the quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer above (read more about him here) until we return home Sunday.

We greatly enjoy this annual event and meet up with lots of Tom's colleagues and friends in the MPA.  We've been going now for eight years, since Tom became the Publisher of the Picayune Item in the spring of 2000.  This time, he is the outgoing President of the Mississippi Press Association and will turn the gavel over to a good friend of ours in Bay St. Louis, Miss., Randy Ponder, on Friday night.  We are very happy for he and his family.

Hope you have a great "rest of the week" yourselves, dear friends.  Tom's not taking his laptop this year because we never could get it to work last summer, so see you upon our return Sunday.

Cheers & Blessings to you all!  Dee

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6 Responses to “Thoughts to Leave You With”

  1. on 25 Jun 2008 at 7:08 pm   marilyn

    Have a safe trip. Have a wonderful time. I (and I am sure many others also) will miss you but am happy for you that you get to make this trip.

  2. on 26 Jun 2008 at 7:59 am   jel

    have a good time , an safe trip , there and back!

    huggs

  3. on 26 Jun 2008 at 8:03 am   Judy

    Safe travels……….and enjoy yourselves.

  4. on 26 Jun 2008 at 1:35 pm   ben overby

    I hope you have a wonderful time and that you enjoy the break.

  5. on 28 Jun 2008 at 2:22 pm   Frank

    What a fantastic quote. The basic, compeling implications of the gospel really aren’t hard to figure out. But we’re weak. We need God to make us strong, to make us like Jesus by His Spirit.

    Hoping you have a safe, wonderful trip. Tell us about it when you return.

  6. on 28 Jun 2008 at 6:20 pm   cwinwc

    We went through Biloxi on our way to “the Big Easy” and back. Wish we could have visited. We were blessed by being with the Carrollton Ave Church. Still much work to be done in New Orleans.

    BTW - Great and friendly folks in N.O.

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