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The Last Life-Line of 2018 is:
Kindness and truth shall meet,
justice and peace shall kiss.
Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and justice shall look down from heaven.
~ Psalm 85: 11-12
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Tag Archives: Peace
Advent – A Poem
ADVENT
It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss --
This is true: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
It Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
I was taught that I had to ‘master’ subjects.
But who can ‘master’ beauty, or peace, or joy?
~ Kathleen Norris Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
A homie named Cruz spent his last dollars taking a Metrolink train sixty miles to Los Angeles from San Bernadino, where he had relocated his lady and newborn to avoid the dangers and desperation of his previous gang life. He had Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Our greatest privilege is also our greatest responsibility.
Not only to seek and to find the treasure hidden in the field
but to uncover and reveal all those other places
where the Divine is hiding in our midst and longing Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
The best way to remember those who have been killed in battle is to work for the day when others will no longer be sent to take their place. Prayerfully reflecting on how to move away from war and war preparation should be central Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To Read more [...]
What is Christmas?
It is the Yes of Mary to the Yes of God
inviting the Yes of us to the Yes of God.
It is the surrogacy of love
giving birth to new possibilities.
It is the magnificat of Mary’s hospitality
undoing the homelessness of hope.
It is the face of the Read more [...]
Merry Christmas & Blessed Holidays Goodpeople
Wishing you,
your family and friends,
all creatures great and small,
all neighborhoods and nations,
all people of the earth,
& the community of
creation
Hope
Healing
Peace
Justice
&
Joy
EMMANUEL
~ Dan ~
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Happy Meal or Risky Meal?
Much as Baptism has lost almost all of its original sense of danger and risk evoked by references to drowning and the baptismal font being shaped like a coffin, womb, or cross, so too in many Christian communities the celebration of the Eucharist has Read more [...]