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as one in both our welcome and our true
worship, and, as such, have become un-
seasonal, so that they give light to guide us
both morning and night in winter and summer—
the winter and summer remain in the color
of linens chosen and placed upon the altar,
the Holy Forever coming forth in anthem
and incense, in Communion—
the Christ Child is awaited in both the flesh
in the crèche and is crucified on Golgotha
and in the sanctuary, as the altar dons its purple.
Purple is known as the color of true repentance
or even penance for confessed sin, but that same
Begotten Son is both born and risen
in the altar’s whiteness—
now that all seasons have united, such that we
can faithfully predict each season’s outcome,
the faith candles that are prayers without words burn
perpetually, seeking God’s true and living Passion.
If Barack Obama wins the presidential election, do you think race relations will:
Non-Hispanic Whites Blacks Hispanics
Get better 54% 65% 63%
Not change 25% 16% 21%
Get worse 20% 16% 13%
If Obama loses, do you think race relations will:
Non-Hispanic Whites Blacks Hispanics
Get better 13% 18% 14%
Not change 54% 45% 56%
Get worse 31% 34% 26%
Source: USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken June 5-July 6 of 702 non-Hispanic whites, 608 blacks and 502 Hispanics. Margins of error: Plus-or-minus 5 to Plus-or-minus 6 percentage points.
This is what I meant, when I said, “Voting For Obama IS Voting Against Racism.”
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My zen is in the slow swinging tops of sixteen pine trees.
One long thin pole of a tree fifty feet high swings in a wider arc than all the others and swings even when they are still.
Hundreds of little elms springing up out of the dry ground under the pines.
My watch among oak leaves. My T-shirt on the barbed wire fence and the wind sings in the bare wood.
Thomas Merton. A Search for Solitude. Lawrence S. Cunningham, editor. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996: 232.
Jesus was broken on the cross. He lived his suffering and death not as an evil to avoid at all costs, but as a mission to embrace. We too are broken. We live with broken bodies, broken hearts, broken minds or broken spirits. We suffer from broken relationships.
How can we live our brokenness? Jesus invites us to embrace our brokenness as he embraced the cross and live it as part of our mission. He asks us not to reject our brokenness as a curse from God that reminds us of our sinfulness but to accept it and put it under God’s blessing for our purification and sanctification. Thus our brokenness can become a gateway to new life.
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