2010 April | Drawing Attention to Life

Feeling a little droopy because of these late snows?

Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Anne

You’re not the only one!

Words

Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Anne

Read this…it sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?
“What makes a saint?
Extravagance. Excessive love, flagrant mercy, radical affection, exorbitant charity, immoderate faith, intemperate hope, inordinate love.”
–from Barbara Brown Taylor’s article “A Great Cloud of Witnesses” in Weavings III/5, September/October 1988, pages 32-33, 34-35.

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Listening to the power of listening

Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Anne

As I continue to read Jim Wallis’ Faith Works, I draw your attention to the second section which includes these three chapters:
Do the Work and You’ll Find the Spirit
Recognize the Three Faces of Poverty
Listen to Those Closest to the Problem
The third chapter of this section really affected me. It ended with this:
“It’s difficult to [...]

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Listening to what I read

Posted on April 13th, 2010 by Anne

On my reading agenda now is Faith Works: How to Live Your Beliefs and Ignite Positive Social Change by Jim Wallis.
The first three chapters, which he has organized as lessons, have me hooked:
Trust Your Questions
Get out of the House More Often
Use Your Gift
If we started with these three lessons, what might happen? [...]

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Health Day

Posted on April 11th, 2010 by Anne

“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health – and create profitable diseases and dependencies – by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, [...]

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