Post-Traumatic Growth: Lessons from the Pandemic || Listen to the Sound of the Genuine
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor
Howard Thurman, former dean of the chapel at Howard University, offered these words in his 1980 commencement address at Spelman College: There is something in every one of you that waits, listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself and if you cannot hear it, you will never find whatever it is for which you are searching… You are the only you that has ever lived; your idiom is the only idiom of its kind in all of existence and if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls… Do you know the sound of the genuine within you? Do you know what makes you become fully alive? How do you intentionally invest your time and gifts in such work? The last 15 months have caused many people to reevaluate their work, purpose, and sense of call. A role that once made one feel fully alive no longer has such power. Meanwhile, a dream that once felt impossible continues to beckon others at night. How might we intentionally seek to listen to the sound of the genuine within us and do what makes us fully alive in light of all we have learned in this season? Join us on Sunday as our series, "Lessons from the Pandemic" concludes with Jesus quickly acknowledging that it's time to move on while inviting others to do the same.