Writings - Page 1 of 8. Kids.
Scores of kids on the platform and with better security credentials than myself to get into the UN. A kid being pushed on a scooter by a mom, hands over his on the handle bar, her left hand bearing a cigarette. There are kids everywhere today. It’s the last time I’ll try to get into the United Nations. I messed up on getting permission to the entire conference as an NGO rep and the Secretariat is kind and we agree that next time I’m invited to come, the credentials will be in perfect order. I watch the kids float by on the train back to the office. There is a crisis in one of the defender centers. Before lunch I decide to go into a shopette to pick up a few things.
Thus assortment of items would cost $12 at Walgreens, or $5 at Wal-Mart. "That’s not the worst part," Katia, the finance manager says, "health insurance is insane. "I remember reading that a lot of people live in France to save on grocery and housing costs. "That’s if you can stand 40% of your income taken. Rev. Naomi King. UniversalistPrayers. City of Refuge. Unitarian Universalist Quotes. Goodness is an art to be studied in our lives.
Durant Drake (Unitarian, professor of philosophy), American Unitarian Association Religious Education #14, quoted by Richard S. RevNaomi Tumblr. #revnaomi #uu - There are times in each of our lives where we have to let things go.
As the disease progresses and I grow weaker and more tired, I am finding myself letting go of things that are important to me, work that has nourished me and my spirit. But there is nourishment in letting go, too, knowing that some of what has so challenged and changed me and been part of my spiritual practices will be carried on. Several years ago, Tim Atkins and many other Unitarian Universalists were yearning for a steady source of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist quotations. At the time, Tim and I were figuring out how to use Tumblr effectively as a tool for faith development. From this yearning and opportunity and challenge - why shouldn’t we do it if our religious association didn’t? So when I knew I was reaching the place where letting go of maintaining and resourcing the UU Quotes Tumblr was here, I thought of Tim, who was part of creating it.
Chalice Light. Chaliceout - Love, dance us from one year to the next, with great hope, great thankfulness & great joy. chalicelight - Wisdom help us dare to be creative in our maladjustment, our loving, our dreaming & our making peace chaliceout - Wisdom may we find meaning and purpose in making peace, caring for the earth, & loving one another. chalicelight - Lover of Life may we lean into our greater purpose of loving boldly, living compassionately, & creating joy. chaliceout - Working together, may we make a more equitable & just, peaceful & joyful world. chalicelight - Working together, may we gift the world with what is right & good & beautiful. chaliceout - Joy you bless us with meaningful work in our responsibilities of love, community, & justice. chalicelight - May we delight in this life, this work, these responsibilities we share by being born, by living now!
Chaliceout - Wisdom help us speak well & responsibly for the public good. The Wonderment. Mourning the death of Nelson Mandela, I am intensely grateful for his perfectly imperfect example of a faithful life.
Like most of us, he struggled with violence as an answer to violence, hate as an answer to hate, and division as an answer to division. But then Mandela change. In that shift to understanding responsibility as peace building, to making dignity for all real by embodying dignity, to supporting processes to bring about reconciliation which is still in process, because we cannot heal a history of hate and violence and be without struggle in a few years -- in that shift, we were given another example of a faithful life, true to himself, his land, his peoples, his faithful struggles and faithful promises. During Advent christians are looking back and anticipating forward at the same time, grateful and wary with the themes of judgment and purification that are in the texts at this time of year. Are we responsible for poverty if we are not poor?