Capture my memory…

Dr. Lewis says, “Shouldn’t our churches and communities be such that when someone loses their memory, that memory is captured by the community?”

My thought: That really would require us to get past pleasantries and get to know each other: hear each other’s stories and learn what matters to each other. I once had a dream in which an elderly friend asked me to “finish what I started.” The friend was very ill at the time, though I did not know it. How can we finish what someone else started if we have no idea what that person has begun? We live our lives immersed in our own individual pursuits, and then those things fade when we die…

“How many people have gone to spaghetti dinners with their brothers and sisters, but in their hour of need don’t see them?”

About Sarah Blake LaRose

Sarah Blake LaRose teaches Biblical Hebrew and Greek at Anderson University School of Theology and Christian Ministry in Anderson, Indiana. She is one of three blind academic scholars who received the Jacob Bolotin Award from the National Federation of the Blind in 2016 in recognition of innovative work in the field of access to biblical language texts and tools for people who are blind. In addition to her work as a professor, she provides braille transcription services specializing in ancient languages. Her research interests concern the intersection of disability, poverty, and biblical studies.

About Sarah Blake LaRose

Sarah Blake LaRose teaches Biblical Hebrew and Greek at Anderson University School of Theology and Christian Ministry in Anderson, Indiana. She is one of three blind academic scholars who received the Jacob Bolotin Award from the National Federation of the Blind in 2016 in recognition of innovative work in the field of access to biblical language texts and tools for people who are blind. In addition to her work as a professor, she provides braille transcription services specializing in ancient languages. Her research interests concern the intersection of disability, poverty, and biblical studies.

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