Dear Friends in Christ -
In my sermon last Sunday, I mentioned that I had sent an email message to the folks at BP. As you may recall, the reason I did it was that I had been in a number of conversations (some of them pretty nasty) about the oil spill caused by BP. I realized that while I don't in any way want to let them off the hook, I do want to encourage them in getting the leak stopped and the mess cleaned up. The best thing I could think to do was to pray for them AND to let them know that I was doing so. So I sent BP an email message.
And I got a response back - a personalized response, response #367563. It thanked me for my support and said, among other things, "we are taking full responsibility for the spill and we will clean it up."
For me, the power in this connection is that I feel like this massive oil company and I have touched down in at least one tiny place of human understanding and agreement. And that's a very good thing. Because going forward, in order to deal with this mess, we're all need each other.
Faithfully,
Janet+
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