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GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPE CANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE
Wayne A. Holst, Editor
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Dear Friends:
My Special Item this week focuses on Emancipation
Day, August 1st, which - if declared a national holiday
- could help Canadians celebrate Black and Indigenous
lives in a special way. What do you think?
Please enjoy the other items I have collected here as well.
Wayne
cut and paste it into the address bar at the top of your
web page and it should work.
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SPECIAL ITEM
SO MUCH TO LEARN
THE UNTOLD STORY
OF SLAVERY IN CANADA
CTV.ca
August 1st, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y33xhnfj
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COLLEAGUE CONTRIBUTIONS
Jim Taylor,
Okanagan, BC
Personal Web Log,
August 2nd, 2020
"Making Statistics More Real"
https://tinyurl.com/y2hs9lq9
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Elfrieda Schroeder,
Winnipeg, MB
In Transit Blog
August 4th, 2020
"Are We Listening?"
https://tinyurl.com/y442f8wf
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Ron Rolheiser,
San Antonio, TX
Personal Web Site
August 3rd, 2020
"Letting Go of False Fear"
https://tinyurl.com/yxmf9ha7
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John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Moncton, NB
Personal Website -
August 5th, 2020
"Franklin Graham, John McArthur,
and Church-and-State"
https://tinyurl.com/y57o6zpr
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NET NOTES
FIVE THINGS TO READ
FOR EMANCIPATION DAY
Recognizing Abolition of Slavery in Britain and the Empire
Broadview, August 1st, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y3v2v4mj
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THE PANDEMIC SHOULD MAKE
US HUMBLE AND PRACTICAL
Advice from N.T. Wright
Christianity Today,
August 5th, 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y64urhdf
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WISDOM OF THE WEEK
Provided by Sojourners and the Bruderhof online:
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
- Bernice King
--
Our anger is moral. Our rage is sacred.
Our anxiety contains wisdom. Our hearts
are telling us the truth. If the truth makes
others uncomfortable -- good.
Show me an alarm clock that makes a
sweet sound and I’ll show you an alarm
clock I can sleep through.
- Ralph De La Rosa
-
Don’t say “It doesn’t matter” about anything
(except your own feelings), for everything matters.
Everything is important, even the tiniest thing.
If you do everything, whether great or small,
for the sake of your Savior and Lord, then you
will be ready for whatever work he has chosen
for you to do later.
- Amy Carmichael
--
God will help us, even if it’s in an unexpected
and shocking way, by swooping down on us to
wrestle with us. And in the midst of the wrestling
we, too, will be able to cry out, “Bless me!” I am
certain that God will bless me, but I don’t need to
know how. When we think we know exactly how
the one who made us is going to take care of us,
we’re apt to ignore the angel messengers sent us
along the way.
- Madeleine L’Engle
--
Self-love is the root and cause of all evil;
it snatches away all that is good and all that
is perfect. Therefore if the soul is to know God,
it must also forget itself and lose itself. For as
long as it sees itself, it will not see and know
God. But when it loses itself for God’s sake
and leaves all things, then it finds itself again
in God because God dawns upon it – and
only then does the soul know itself and all
things in God.
- Meister Eckhart
--
For a long time, I sought safety and security among
the wise and clever, hardly aware that the things of
the kingdom were revealed to “little children”; that God
has chosen “those who by human standards are fool
to shame the wise.” But when I experienced the warm,
unpretentious reception of those who have nothing to
boast about, and experienced a loving embrace from
people who didn’t ask any questions, I began to
discover that a true spiritual homecoming means a
return to the poor in spirit to whom the kingdom of
heaven belongs.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen
--
When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds,
sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else
in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no
rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the
flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made of
entirely non-flower elements; it has no independent,
individual existence. When we see the nature of
inter-being, barriers between ourselves and others
are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding
are possible.
Whenever there is understanding, compassion is born
- Thich Nhat Hanh
--
The needs of the world are too great, the suffering
and pain too extensive, the lures of the world too
seductive for us to begin to change the world unless
we are changed, unless conversion of life and morals
becomes our pattern. The status quo is too alluring.
It is the air we breathe, the food we eat, the six-thirty
news, our institutions, theologies, and politics.
The only way we shall break its hold on us is to be
transferred to another dominion, to be cut loose from
our old certainties, to be thrust under the flood and
then pulled forth fresh and newborn. Baptism takes
us there.
- William Willimon
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CLOSING THOUGHT - Vivienne de Watteville
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can
never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time
to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in
enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment.
For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by
marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it,
nor by seeking to be understood, but by learning to
understand.
(end)
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--
Our anger is moral. Our rage is sacred.
Our anxiety contains wisdom. Our hearts
are telling us the truth. If the truth makes
others uncomfortable -- good.
Show me an alarm clock that makes a
sweet sound and I’ll show you an alarm
clock I can sleep through.
- Ralph De La Rosa
-
Don’t say “It doesn’t matter” about anything
(except your own feelings), for everything matters.
Everything is important, even the tiniest thing.
If you do everything, whether great or small,
for the sake of your Savior and Lord, then you
will be ready for whatever work he has chosen
for you to do later.
- Amy Carmichael
--
God will help us, even if it’s in an unexpected
and shocking way, by swooping down on us to
wrestle with us. And in the midst of the wrestling
we, too, will be able to cry out, “Bless me!” I am
certain that God will bless me, but I don’t need to
know how. When we think we know exactly how
the one who made us is going to take care of us,
we’re apt to ignore the angel messengers sent us
along the way.
- Madeleine L’Engle
--
Self-love is the root and cause of all evil;
it snatches away all that is good and all that
is perfect. Therefore if the soul is to know God,
it must also forget itself and lose itself. For as
long as it sees itself, it will not see and know
God. But when it loses itself for God’s sake
and leaves all things, then it finds itself again
in God because God dawns upon it – and
only then does the soul know itself and all
things in God.
- Meister Eckhart
--
For a long time, I sought safety and security among
the wise and clever, hardly aware that the things of
the kingdom were revealed to “little children”; that God
has chosen “those who by human standards are fool
to shame the wise.” But when I experienced the warm,
unpretentious reception of those who have nothing to
boast about, and experienced a loving embrace from
people who didn’t ask any questions, I began to
discover that a true spiritual homecoming means a
return to the poor in spirit to whom the kingdom of
heaven belongs.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen
--
When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds,
sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else
in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no
rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the
flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made of
entirely non-flower elements; it has no independent,
individual existence. When we see the nature of
inter-being, barriers between ourselves and others
are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding
are possible.
Whenever there is understanding, compassion is born
- Thich Nhat Hanh
--
The needs of the world are too great, the suffering
and pain too extensive, the lures of the world too
seductive for us to begin to change the world unless
we are changed, unless conversion of life and morals
becomes our pattern. The status quo is too alluring.
It is the air we breathe, the food we eat, the six-thirty
news, our institutions, theologies, and politics.
The only way we shall break its hold on us is to be
transferred to another dominion, to be cut loose from
our old certainties, to be thrust under the flood and
then pulled forth fresh and newborn. Baptism takes
us there.
- William Willimon
*****
CLOSING THOUGHT - Vivienne de Watteville
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can
never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time
to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in
enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment.
For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by
marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it,
nor by seeking to be understood, but by learning to
understand.
(end)
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