Let's play a game. I am going to say a name and you think about that person. What emotions does the name bring to mind? What nostalgic feature? What accomplishments do you remember about them or what negatives have they produced in your thinking?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Eve
• Tommy Dorsey
• Joan of Arc
• Paul the apostle
• Amelia Earhart
• Mohammad Ali
• Albert Einstein
• Mary the Mother of Jesus
• Osama bin Laden
• Mother Teresa

Now think of the names of people in your life who have influenced you

• parents
• grandparents
• other relatives
• Sunday school teachers
• schoolteachers
• pastors
• friends
• classmates
• coworkers

The first set of names you have read about, and you have formed opinions from someone else's perception. The latter are names that you know or have known personally. They have inters…