The loved ones who truly "get it"

Gxojan Kristnaskon.

A few weeks ago, I shared the joyous news of my completing the ELNA Postal Course with a good friend who with her husband worships in the same Unitarian Universalist congregation that I do (we actually joined on the same day in November 1992).

Tonight, as part of a gift to my friends (who are also musicians), I gave them a copy of Lesson One. (Some of my other friends at this congregation — and a few well–local musicians — are also getting their copies of Lesson One inside their greeting cards, or else under separate cover.)

A few hours later (this was between Christmas Eve services), I found this message inside the card my musical friends gave me in response:

"…Congratulations once again on your Esperanto studies and your commitment to helping people [throughout] the world understand one another better. You are an inspiration."

When two people with so much else on their plates affirm what you are learning — and also what you aim to do with the knowledge you are gaining — how could you not be encouraged to go forward?

I repeat: Gxojan Kristnaskon.

Elkoran dankon al vi, Dorothea Cook kaj Peter Winkler.