Receive The Gift Of Joy
As we are just a few days from returning to our family in Minnesota, I share these photos of three members of our African family. Over the past two decades of coming to know many men, women, and children in Africa, I am grateful for their courage, beauty, and joy. It is precisely in these relationships, that “I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, will most assuredly have it.” I thank those who support the mission of AIAIA for empowering us to give and receive the gift of joy.
James Cassidy, President
“I have come to realize that those who make room for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy”
