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Santita Jackson: A Tribute to Father’s Day

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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1000182_654508521230527_628733213_nI am reposting Santita Jackson’s heartfelt Father’s Day tribute to her father, Rev. Jesse Jackson.

I want to wish everyone a Blessed Father’s Day…

This is a great and necessary holiday—though, sadly, it is a holiday that fills many with ambivalence, anger, hurt or disappointment. My heart breaks for those who have t…hose feelings. The absence of your Father from your life leaves you wanting throughout the course of your life. I have seen it in my own Father—in his longings for his Father’s presence and protection. At 71, his pain is still raw. It is a pain that—no matter what the current conversation asserts—no one but a Father can ease; and his absence can only be filled by him. Continue reading →

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Dr. Jae Woong Ahn who is the Chair of the Board of Trustees at the National Council of YMCA of Korea invited us to a delicious luncheon at the Press Club on the 19th floor of the Press Center. We had a fantastic view of Seoul! He gave me a copy of his own memoir. Excited to read it.

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