"Pray only but be vigilant and set your hand to the work"
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Today's subject line comes from "The Work," a lovely poem by Allen Grossman that was recently featured in the Washington Post (and quoted by a friend in her restricted blog). For me, it has an echo of some of the messages to be seen at the UUA website regarding what went down at TVUUC. As I told another friend at UUC Arlington, the ability to articulate words such as these are a key element of Bill Sinkford's strength as a leader...
... and the district executive's report about the children asking to finish their perfomance -- and thus singing "Tomorrow" to those gathered to grieve -- that brought tears to my eyes.
I have been reading Julia Cameron's Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance (2006) during some of my meals the past couple of days. I almost didn't purchase it when I saw it at the used bookstore this past weekend, and I confess I wasn't enthusiastic when the bookseller mentioned he was a real fan of hers -- there's a part of me that automatically resists association with anything that's inspired cult-think (to Cameron's credit, she warns against this herself, and the bookseller was one of the friendliest I've ever overheard in action -- while I was browsing, he checked up on several regulars -- one of whom was in hospital -- and cheerfully greeted a number of others), Also, sometimes I personally prefer someone harder-nosed and harder-edged in their approach to managing reality and creativity. However, I figured the book was in the same ballpark as the fashion magazines I frequently can't resist splurging on, and would last for longer, and unlike a library copy, it could handle salsa stains and Coke drips.
It's the right book for me this week, as it turns out, and there are now a dozen dog-ears and scrap-markers in my copy. The three most recent:
None of us can allow our pain and anger to keep us from living our faith, from welcoming all people, from standing on the side of love. We will not let that happen. We will continue our commitment to welcoming all people.
... and the district executive's report about the children asking to finish their perfomance -- and thus singing "Tomorrow" to those gathered to grieve -- that brought tears to my eyes.
I have been reading Julia Cameron's Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance (2006) during some of my meals the past couple of days. I almost didn't purchase it when I saw it at the used bookstore this past weekend, and I confess I wasn't enthusiastic when the bookseller mentioned he was a real fan of hers -- there's a part of me that automatically resists association with anything that's inspired cult-think (to Cameron's credit, she warns against this herself, and the bookseller was one of the friendliest I've ever overheard in action -- while I was browsing, he checked up on several regulars -- one of whom was in hospital -- and cheerfully greeted a number of others), Also, sometimes I personally prefer someone harder-nosed and harder-edged in their approach to managing reality and creativity. However, I figured the book was in the same ballpark as the fashion magazines I frequently can't resist splurging on, and would last for longer, and unlike a library copy, it could handle salsa stains and Coke drips.
It's the right book for me this week, as it turns out, and there are now a dozen dog-ears and scrap-markers in my copy. The three most recent:
So much of being sane and happy begins with the doing of things that are sane and happy. (133)
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. - Goethe (quoted on 133)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (quoted on 137)
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