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\u201cWhen we became a we\u201d by Tom Lee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you spent the Nashville ice storm doom-scrolling social media, wearing down device batteries between automotive warmup-and-charging sessions, lashing out at remote and disengaged decisionmakers, you may have seen an interview with the inestimable Amy Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story involves a difficult stretch of post-divorce childrearing Amy was experiencing (all of Nashville is on a first-name basis with Amy) and advice she received from Jimmy Gentry, a Middle Tennessee World War II veteran who\u2019d earned the right to address the celebrity by her first name. This is the version Amy told faithwire.com<\/a> in November 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of my kids was going through an especially rascally stage, and I just said, \u2018Oh, God, I need some help,\u2019\u201d Grant recalled, \u201cand [Jimmy] said, \u2018Amy, I\u2019m gonna give you five phrases, and I want you to say these phrases as often as possible to your child.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he first told her the mantra, Gentry held out five fingers. The first phrase is, \u201cHow can I help you?\u201d After folding down his thumb, he moved to the four-word phrase, \u201cI\u2019m proud of you.\u201d The three-word phrase that followed is, \u201cI love you,\u201d followed then by the two-word phrase, \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen the one-word phrase he made me guess, and I couldn\u2019t guess it,\u201d Grant said. \u201cHe said, \u2018This will change everything.\u2019 And I said, \u2018I don\u2019t even know what it is?\u2019 And he said, \u2018\u2018We.\u2019 Look at the world as \u2018we.\u2019\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing resembles an \u201cI\u201d experience so much as a crisis. It matters not if others share the crisis\u2014a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or, if you will, an ice storm\u2014or if it is unique to an individual\u2014the loss of a love, the death of a child, a disabling illness. The dislocation, isolation, and disruption are the same. The deep engravings on our souls are the same. In time, we may live these memories so deeply they become us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, we become them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These last two paragraphs I\u2019ve borrowed heavily\u2014ok, stole\u2014from the Rev. Carol Cavin-Dillon\u2019s sermon at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville on February 1. With churches in town still without power a week after the storm, West End invited in the connection from Glendale, Belle Meade, and Calvary UMCs. We shared eggs, grits, and coffee in the church basement, heard master storyteller Tyler Merritt remind us of the connections that change everything, and then we headed into the sanctuary, still chilled from the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of us began in tears, from the stress of the storm. But in the familiar old hymns (\u201cFrom All that Dwell Below the Skies\u201d and \u201cHeal Us, Emmanuel, Hear Our Prayer\u201d), the communion bread broken and shared, and the story from Mark of Jesus healing a man with leprosy, a man who said he could be healed if Jesus only so chose, those of us with our own marks and markings evolved into something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cO, send us not despairing home,\u201d we sang our final words together. \u201cSend none unhealed away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, then, Jesus did so choose. He healed the pain each of us was carrying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We embraced. We stayed into the afternoon to talk. We rekindled old friendships and began new missions. Just as Jimmy promised Amy, each of us saw the world differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We became a we. And the world, still broken, began to look a little more promising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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