Imago Voices Q and A

This week's Imago Voices Q&A is with Gina Ganschow. Gina serves on the Formation Team and can been seen on Sunday mornings hosting service.

What are your favorite books these days?

I have been tearing through fiction books like mad.  Last year I read almost 100 books.  Sometimes I feel guilty that there are not more nonfiction titles in the mix, but I remind myself that fiction provides me a way to relax and destress.  I love just about all types of fiction!  

When did you last sing to yourself?  Someone else?  

I sing to myself all the time - probably daily.  As a result, Jude (my 9 year-old) gets to hear it.  I also love singing snippets of random songs that come to mind when he says something that triggers my song memory.  I don’t know that he loves it?  That’s one of many things I also adore about Justin, my husband (unless it’s at 5 AM).  He can make up a fun song about anything.  

What are you most looking forward to right now? 

I am really excited that we are in the last quarter of the school year, and summer break is rapidly approaching.  It seems we are really seeing and feeling the effects of the pandemic in the schools that I work in right now, and I think everyone is ready for an extended break.  I am excited for leisurely days and adventures with Jude.

Something that has happened to me that was led by God?  

When I look back over the last couple of decades, I feel like almost all of the major events in my life were led by God.  As I’ve gotten older, I’ve tried to think of things as happening “for” me and not “to” me.  If I take that approach, I think I can find the good that God has shown me in almost anything, even if it’s a really, really hard situation at the time.  When I was first diagnosed with a brain tumor, we lived in Little Rock, AR.  The surgeon that I was referred to there told us that Little Rock is actually a neuroscience center for the medical world.  Crazy!  As a result, he had a connection at the University of California San Francisco.  After a referral, we decided that the CA surgeon was a better option, and he was trained to do awake brain surgery (which I needed).  Upon further research, we realized that he is one of the top neurosurgeons in the world for the type of tumor that I had.  Who would have guessed that living in the middle of Arkansas would have allowed me to get some of the best medical care in the world?  While I would have preferred to not need the surgery, and I do not really subscribe to the “everything happens for a reason” philosophy, I am forever grateful for the way that we were led on that journey and the way that we continue to be very well taken care of with regards to my medical care.