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$\"\"$ <\/a>To be a blogger at all is a huge surprise in my life; it had never occurred to me! To be a blogger at Patheos is a thing of Beauty that is full of Grace and Truth. I am deeply grateful to have had this opportunity.<\/p>\n

Blessings for the vision that the entire team has:\u00a0 for creating a space on-line where people of faith or no faith can speak and listen to one another<\/em> .<\/li>\n

Blessings for the courage of the conviction <\/em>that kind and honest conversation can lead to understanding, understanding can lead to change, and in the change walls can be broken down.<\/em><\/li>\n

Blessings for the willingness to go out on a limb by inviting people with <\/em>differing points of view to weigh in on issues that are controversial, but critical.
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Blessings for the people I have \u201cmet\u201d as a blogger on this site, people I would never encountered on my own\u2013<\/em>different age. different faith community, different formation, different lenses on the world\u2026and blessings to those willing to be friends with me<\/em>.<\/li>\n

Blessings for the hard work of helping people work together<\/em> who don\u2019t have an immediate affinity for each other<\/em>; thanks for the gracious and tough standards of working things out between us.
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Blessing for receiving posts from some of the \u201cthe least of these<\/em>, \u201d such as<\/em> myself, who are not professional, not creating business for ourselves, and not on the Time Magazine List of 100 Most Influential People in the World.<\/em><\/li>\n

Blessings for continuing to push all of us as readers to know more, to wrestle more, to pray (if that is our practice) more with the <\/em>pain and grief of the world all over; you continue to make it impossible to hide our heads in the sand.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n

Blessings for introducing to resources, especially books, that challenge, teach, and sometimes infuriate us; you have enhanced our learning and knowing.
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