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in honor of the victims at virginia tech

Posted on April 30, 2007 | Filed Under general

beauty, and life, take time

Posted on April 27, 2007 | Filed Under beauty, spirituality

I really liked today’s entry at inward/outward … so I am taking the liberty of reprinting it here for you!

By Macrina Wiederkehr

Life unfolds
a petal at a time
slowly.

The beauty of the process is crippled
when I try to hurry growth.
Life has its inner rhythm
which must be respected.
It cannot be rushed or hurried.

Like daylight stepping out of darkness,
like morning creeping out of night,
life unfolds slowly a petal at a time
like a flower opening to the sun,
slowly.

God’s call unfolds
a Word at a time
slowly.

A disciple is not made in a hurry.
Slowly I become like the One
to whom I am listening.

Life unfolds
a petal at …

sadly, this is who we have become

Posted on April 25, 2007 | Filed Under torture

Watch the trailer for a new film documentary, Taxi to the Darkside, chronicling the fundamental shift in our government’s attitude toward and acceptance of what are euphemistically called “alternative interrogation techniques,” or more plainly called, torture.

And here is another trailer for an HBO documentary investigating the abuse of detainees at Abu Graib.

heroes

Posted on April 25, 2007 | Filed Under politics, war

The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don’t need to be told elaborate tales.

- Jessica Lynch testifying yesterday before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee

thirty-three prayer flags

Posted on April 24, 2007 | Filed Under grace

Yesterday, as classes resumed at Virginia Tech, students gathered around a display of thirty-three white prayer flags.

Thirty-three flags … one each for the thirty-three people who died the previous Monday at the hand of a lone gunman. One each for his thirty-two shooting victims … and one for him.

Thirty-three lives were lost. Thirty-three precious human lives were laid waste. All thirty-three people were remembered and grieved. It is a powerful witness that love can rise up over hate, that grace can rise up over bitterness.

Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good.

video vets project

Posted on April 23, 2007 | Filed Under war

Iraq war veterans and their families speak out … for the troops, against the war.

another stoney photo

Posted on April 22, 2007 | Filed Under personal life

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