Cheryl Schatz

Frank,
Thanks for the warm thoughts and for sharing the thoughts from Aida Besancon Spencer’s column in MUTUALITY. I do think that we can set up a strong defense where we cover each other’s backs. One faces one way and has a defense there and another faces in the other direction and covers that line of defense.

I like to look at things frontward and backward and upside down and sideways because there are many good things that we can miss if we only look at a “problem” from one angle. When we present a strong defense in a difference way, we are like water buffaloes who stand back to back with our heads and horns pointed towards the opposition and our vulnerable “back ends” meeting together in the inner circle. I never think that having one good answer is enough. If we can look at the problem through many different angles we are likely to reach people who have dismissed one line of reasoning and have never thought through another line. Together we are much stronger than we are separately. That is what is so wonderful about the body of Christ! We are in this together.