Right on, John. I recall the Muslim saying, "Trust Allah but tie your camel" Basically put our faith in action. Vote for, work for,, donate to candidates who share our values.
This, "Wherever the disparate, sprawling army of compassionate human beings spend themselves on behalf of other people, when they keep going despite being exhausted, when they refuse to tire of doing the right thing, when they will not be shamed into silence—then love will be winning." And then this, "We need to live in such a way that we make sure that love (through us) wins." Love through us. That's the only way - to embody love and let it motivate us to create more places where love thrives in the world, in our communities, in our schools.
I found this section in a sermon I delivered some time ago:
The existential psychologist Martin Buber, writing of the need we have to have an impact upon the world in which we live, spoke of the relationship between power and love. He observed:
Our hope is too new and too old –
I do not know what would remain to us
Were love not transfigured power
And power not straying love.
Do not protest, “Let love alone rule!”
Can you prove it true?
But resolve: every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love deed -”Yes” and the power deed “No”
I agree John. It makes me think of a line from a song by Nahko Bear and Medicine for the People, "we are the ones we've been waiting for".
Amen, Kim!
Right on, John. I recall the Muslim saying, "Trust Allah but tie your camel" Basically put our faith in action. Vote for, work for,, donate to candidates who share our values.
Along these lines, my mentor, church historian Ralph D. Winter, used to say, "Don't ask God to paint the back fence."
This, "Wherever the disparate, sprawling army of compassionate human beings spend themselves on behalf of other people, when they keep going despite being exhausted, when they refuse to tire of doing the right thing, when they will not be shamed into silence—then love will be winning." And then this, "We need to live in such a way that we make sure that love (through us) wins." Love through us. That's the only way - to embody love and let it motivate us to create more places where love thrives in the world, in our communities, in our schools.
I found this section in a sermon I delivered some time ago:
The existential psychologist Martin Buber, writing of the need we have to have an impact upon the world in which we live, spoke of the relationship between power and love. He observed:
Our hope is too new and too old –
I do not know what would remain to us
Were love not transfigured power
And power not straying love.
Do not protest, “Let love alone rule!”
Can you prove it true?
But resolve: every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love deed -”Yes” and the power deed “No”
And pressing forward, honor reality.
We cannot avoid power.
Using power
Cannot escape the compulsion
to afflict the world.
So let us, cautious in diction
and mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.