Hi. My name is Steve Holt. This second journey into blogland focuses on day-to-day living. The older I get the more I realize that there are abundant reasons to rejoice and be glad every day. I am writing this blog in order to keep a record of those personal reasons I encounter. This blog is not for you; it’s for me. Feel free, however, to read along and offer your thoughts. Welcome to my life…L’chai-im! Here’s to life!
If you wish, you may email me at sholtsr@juno.com.
Dear Mark: One of IPC’s ministers passed your message on to me here in Philadelphia were I live. I visit Memphis about every six weeks. While there I have had the privilege to have been asked to both sit and have a meal and to serve on those Thursday nights you have written about. I knew Mark and many others who sat at his table. Finding those men and women at the table talented, intelligent, funny, charming, good conversationalists, tellers of tall tales, traveled. Bewildered from the experiences, I came away thinking: “But for the Grace of God go I.”
In this economy is it kind of frightening good people can be stripped of everything we hold so dear. And, if what I recognize is true, what holds people like Mark and his friends together is the certain knowledge, that IPC offers; they are validated as individuals, not erased from humanity. Somehow, IPC has made that leap, bridged that abyss, by making common ground for all of them and to those walking a different path.
By: David Marshall on September 30, 2008
at 12:50 pm
Mark,
I’m the pastor of Idlewild and simply want to thank you for your blog about Mark. At some point if you are in the neighborhood, come on in and I”ll show you the nameplate he made for me the week before he was murdered. It’s next to my door. It was the last time I saw him.
I’m wondering if I might have your permission to use part of your blog at some point in the not too distant future to share with the larger church.
Grace and peace,
Steve
By: STeve Montgomery on October 2, 2008
at 5:29 pm
I love your site. Keep it up !
By: knowledgetoday on March 30, 2009
at 4:12 am
Not sure why the respondents above called me Mark. It’s my middle name, but how would they know? Perhaps it’s because I wrote about a man named Mark in an earlier blog. I truly appreciate every one who comments. I welcome your thoughts…
By: Steve Holt Sr. on September 12, 2009
at 10:14 am