Recent Letter from Father Beaver

I dont know how many of you were lucky enough to recieve Father Beaver's recent email regarding the use and abuse of alcohol, but if you have not had an opportunity to-- as he says, "wash your ears out with this", please email me at work broach@roachlaw.com, and I will send it to you. You may all have thought to yourselves from time to time, without necessarily expressing it in a crowd or among confidants, just what Father has been up to on this life-journey of his that has been filled with some, or at least a couple, profound difficulties. I have to say that, despite the fact that it is significantly challenging for me to be so up front by writing and publishing this email, the words of his letter were about as to the point and meaningful-- word by word-- as anything I have read in the last several years I can remember. I encourage you all as my cousins to first read this letter, and then to digest this letter, by committing its essence to your basic daily perspective, and make sense out of it as if it were a mandate. There are several key components to Father's letter that are-- I submit from my perspective only-- directly inspired by the life of Christ, and may in fact, be His Words. I have had many opportunities to talk at length with Father Beaver. Yet, I have never heard such profoundly personal and meaningful things come from him (and of course, we all know how many honestly great things he has to say ...). All I am asking from my cousins is that you read and reread this letter knowing that the content is important, relevant, and one hundred percent on point, and use it to form your opinions. I dont know that I have ever been accused by any of you of 'force feeding' a belief or opinion, or a set of values for that matter, (yes, I know I attempt heavily at being persuasive in a variety of often unimportant areas-- a roast for a different day/) but if there were a time that I would take responsibility for, and hope it were true, that I am being dogmatic and directing, it would be only in the context of this issue and these statements by our cousin. I doubt many of you would react differently than I did when I read this letter with such awe and emotion, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to let you all know, as an oldest cousin, that I found it more meaningful than much else in recent memory written by anyone.

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