God harvested the cream of the crop to end 2022, symbolic of love, truth, joy, and masterful performance. I take that as the virtue to live by in 2023.
First, let me pay homage to Pele with a 97.5% efficacy and performance score. Wikipedia describes it more:”Pelé is the joint-top goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games. At the club level, he was Santos’ all-time top goalscorer with 643 goals in 659 games.”
Next is my aunt in law who passed 2 days after Christmas. I described her life’s currency and lifestyle as embodying love and giving love to her children, grandchildren, other folks children and her great grandchildren. She is love and joy, embodied.
Third is Barbara Walters, a media professional who was a guardian of truth and democracy. She asked the unvarnished questions to get at the truth and facts.
Fourth is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who sought the face of Jesus, wrote his trilogy on faith and anchored his life on his philosophy as cooperators of truth. Theoretically, his intellectual pursuits are of high caliber. He has the foresight to resign in 2005 to hand over the governance to Pope Francis who took actions to reform the Church of decades of sexual abuse. He introduced a policy of referring a priest or bishop to civil authorities when accused of crimes of sexual abuse and financial abuse.
