Yesterday in his closing homily of the annual conference of the Tennessee Conference, Bishop Bill McAlilly urged the people of the conference to understand that while times for the UMC today are rocky, we should, "Take a breath and carry on" with the full ministries of the church.
I turned to my wife, Cathy, and said, "That is speaking my language" since I am a retired US Army officer. So that deserves a meme!
Or as we put it in my former career:
Why do we love our chains?
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