Unity through Repentance: The Journey to Wittenberg 2017
Chapter 7
Waiting
You’ve read Chapter 7, and you just can’t wait for more? Don’t worry, we got you!
Lyrics by Kathy Kanewske
The Lord my shepherd is, and I am well indeed
The keeper of my soul provideth all I'll ever need
And though my way be dim, no evil will I fear
For thy rod and staff remind me that my life is very dear
The favor I receive, the table that is set
Have brought me consolations that my heart will not forget
How gratefully I gaze on bread and choicest wine
Mine enemies behold that I am his and he is mine
With head so wet with oil, and cup full to the brim
I find thy goodness and thy mercy are my closest friends
And in my Father's house, my dwelling place shall be
For my Father is my Shepherd and he careth well for me
And in my Father's house, my home shall ever be
For my Father is my Shepherd and he careth well for me
Video courtesy Hope Chapel
Kathy, Phillip, Steve
On March 13, 2022, Phillip Owens led worship at Hope Chapel. (First of all, rejoice that a Catholic is leading worship at a Protestant non-denominational church!) He played Kathy Kanewske’s song from Psalm 23, The Lord My Shepherd Is.
Phillip begins with a personal story of how Kathy wrote the song for him, in a critical time in his life. He had been fired as worship leader at a non-denominational church, and was devastated. This began the path that led him and his family into the Catholic church.
Kathy was in the Well with my parents, back in the Jesus people days. I remember one day, when I was 7, saying to her, “I want to ask Jesus into my heart.” We prayed together right then and there, on the electrical spool that served as a table.
(Kathy also wrote another song that became one of the theme songs for the Wittenberg 2017 initiative … see Chapter 17.)
Towards the end of the video, Steve Hawthorne comes up and speaks about the song, unfolding some of the glory of the way Kathy shaped its lyrics. Steve, who is the editor of the Perspectives course, attends Hope Chapel and is well loved for these types of mid-worship-song encouragements.
(He sits in the pew behind the one our family usually sits in - in the wide angle shots towards the end, you can see me, John Patrick, and Clara, with Steve and his wife Barb behind.)
Photographs from our family life, as we waited
Justus is born! We gave him a 0th Birthday cake (9 April 1999)
Static electricity from the trampoline makes Justus' hair stick up straight (2000)
Peggy's baptism (2000)
Owenses, Cogdells, Cravers (my in-laws) & my younger sister, in front of the Canterbury house (2000)
Me & Amy with our three, plus Bethany Owens (2000)
St. Nicholas celebration at the Janknegts, with Jim (the artist highlighted in Chapter 8) dressed as St. Nick. (2001)
Peggy & Justus #1 (1999) - We finished out the attic in the Canterbury house, just in time for Justus' arrival
Peggy & Justus #2, 2001
Peggy & Justus #3, 2002
Noah always loved jumping into water from a cliff or tree. This leap of joy was at Pedernales State Park (2002)
Peggy and Justus inspect their new brother, John Patrick, born on March 9, 2003.
The worlds of AHOP and Catholicism were already starting to collide. Here we invited the Cristo Rey youth group, led by Jack Salazar and Sister Guadalupe, to join us in a night watch session in a pop-up house of prayer on the campus of the University of Texas. Amy is on the left and Peggy is in the center, holding John Patrick. (2003)
Family portrait (except where was John Patrick?), 2003
1st Cielo labeling party (inadvertently held in place of Amy's birthday 23 Oct 2004 ... which I had forgotten ... ouch)
Early work party at the first AHOP location, which had a small warehouse we used for Cielo (2005)
The first AHOP prayer room, designed by Jim Janknegt who also provided much of the artwork
Peggy, Amy & Noah worshiping in the AHOP prayer room at the corner of MLK and Chicon (2006)
