tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81861218191776628302024-02-08T02:40:59.686+13:00Conversations@Intersectionsobservations, reflections, meaning makingJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.comBlogger1947125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-23916929134881255732021-12-05T00:16:00.000+13:002021-12-05T00:16:46.857+13:00You hold a different script.<p> My biggest concerns today were nothing like yours. </p><p>I got teary, had regrets, sighed deeply, was judgmental, misunderstood, dismissed someone, took a deep breath. </p><p>You might have done some of those too, but for very different reasons. </p><p>My concerns are mine.</p><p>They’re not Leanna’s, Lynne’s or Lou Ann’s. They’re not Samia’s, Sahle-Work’s, Jacinda’s, Fiamē’s or Angela’s.</p><p>There’s very limited postal service from the U.S. to New Zealand. Two friends have had packages refused at the US Post Office when they attempted to send them to me. </p><p>NZ banks have not allowed foreign currency check deposits since mid-August.</p><p>Kazakstan seems very far from New Zealand.</p><p>There are mealy bugs on my jasmine, scale on my ceanothus and my monstera is shooting out aerial roots. </p><p>My tax bill came, as did the internet, credit card and insurance bills. </p><p>But none of these are of great concern to you because you have your own concerns, the things you think about when your attention isn’t being grabbed by something else.</p><p>The stent is in, the meds are working, the new car seems ok, exams are over, that deadline met, the position filled.</p><p>So, we pass each other by, whether in the flesh or online, and we try to understand each other without appreciating that the line in the script of our own story is barely recognizable to those holding a different script.</p><p>It’s okey to be sad. They’ve left a massive hole in your heart.</p><p>It’s okey to be glad. Celebrate each little win or blessing.</p><p>It’s okey to be numb. Between is a place.</p><p>It’s okey at be something else. Make it up as you go. It’s called improvising and only the best get to do that. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAaX3GJ_rqTmF6Wn6Cu2yJ1hRJfQjzDbsGchTst1kSgh6qsE6N7-g6zeJ7FKnXYhuI6_3007-CUrtt0Jv68-kOSZlzC7qsWPeksXuvNqGOIrXspeaYC8lJgt7GieHKUDHQ-jQkWN-GRkFeaIFJ3ROXVd8iGaBVgWVVSihEET7G7Q7P0yRA_WNYfol4kg=s3088" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAaX3GJ_rqTmF6Wn6Cu2yJ1hRJfQjzDbsGchTst1kSgh6qsE6N7-g6zeJ7FKnXYhuI6_3007-CUrtt0Jv68-kOSZlzC7qsWPeksXuvNqGOIrXspeaYC8lJgt7GieHKUDHQ-jQkWN-GRkFeaIFJ3ROXVd8iGaBVgWVVSihEET7G7Q7P0yRA_WNYfol4kg=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-91779045425637978242020-07-21T15:34:00.000+12:002020-11-07T23:00:30.645+13:00<div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">Blogspot https://clck.ru/PmWTV onajourney </div>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-68047206862904005002017-10-04T09:13:00.001+13:002017-10-04T09:13:14.714+13:00Together, we live.<h4>
<span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">• Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi • </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">A Mäori proverb for us all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">With your basket and my basket the people will live</span>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-4175480969823520322017-04-28T09:13:00.000+12:002017-04-28T09:13:23.961+12:00Learning from the Other<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The main political problem in post-Brexit UK, as well as post-Trump America, is the depth of our division. People with opposite views believe in their own opinions so vehemently, they’re convinced everyone on the other side is practically from a different species. "<br />- Joe Berkowitz, Fast Company</blockquote>
Another part of our political problem is that we only see the world as English speakers, thereby without hearing or understanding the voices of most of the world. I'm not solely referring to language, but to worldview, basic assumptions and filters.<br />
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What if we had lunch with an Eritrean, a Rohingyan, a Timorese, and a Yazidi. Assuming we manage our way through the actual language barriers, what could we learn of philosophy, values, worldviews and life, if we could truly listen? My first challenge would be to even know the questions. Coming from my journey and experiences of the world, I probably wouldn't even perceive the most important issues. Thus the need for conversations that take us places we couldn't have anticipated, resulting in understanding and knowledge we didn't know existed.<br />
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Smarter & stronger together, we are.<br />
<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-17873193253991927002016-09-24T08:30:00.001+12:002016-09-24T08:30:12.272+12:00We know his name. It's Omran. Omran Daqneesh.I wonder what this little guy was doing just before he heard the aircraft that dropped the bombs?<br />Playing with his brother, who died? Or with his sister who lived? Helping his mom? Watching tv, looking at a picture book or playing with his car.... possibly making car sounds and driving around the legs of the coffee table? <br /><br />He's 5 years old. I know 5 year olds. I reckon he wasn't expecting a ride in an ambulance and to have his photo taken...... or his brother, his home, his idea of normalcy at home with his family.... taken... by an impersonal bomb that fell from the sky..... from a plane.... sent by someone who didn't know Omran's name. <br /><br />We now know his name. It's Omran. Omran Daqneesh.<br />I'd like to say, politics aside, let's respond humanely, compassionately, justly. But we can't put politics aside because it's ego, greed for power and politics that placed this boy in the path of that bomb.<br /><br />What am I going to do about this? I'm going to deal justly and generously with other refugees. My Lord Jesus was a refugee. He taught about generosity, justice and compassion. I'm going to try to apply His teaching in practical, relevant and personal ways. It's consistent with my faith and my role as a disciple. It's my faith lived. I don't understand why other Jesus followers don't understand this. <br /><br />Obviously, you don't have to be a Jesus follower to be kind and compassionate, but I would assume Jesus followers definitely would be. Look at Omran's face, through the dust and blood. Look. <br /><br />The boy, Omran, is speechless. We cannot be.<br /><br />Syrian child pulled from rubble after Aleppo airstrike –<br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/aug/18/syrian-child-pulled-from-rubble-after-aleppo-airstrike-video">https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/aug/18/syrian-child-pulled-from-rubble-after-aleppo-airstrike-video</a><br /><br /><br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-81653868314523120772016-04-04T17:55:00.003+12:002016-04-04T17:55:20.270+12:00We choose<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We choose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />We choose to be cynical and fear driven, fear mongers even. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Or we choose hope, benefit of the doubt, generosity, kindness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We tend to see what we're looking for.</span></div>
Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-23984689562434540432016-02-23T12:24:00.001+13:002016-02-23T12:24:22.509+13:00Comfortable with DifferentBeing in community with people of other worldviews, faiths and traditions requires different thinking than when we all lived in homogenous societies. <br /><br />Knowing who we are is imperative. Only then can we relate in healthy and nondefensive ways. <br /><br />People sometimes speak of not offending others; being inoffensive. The whole idea of 'fending' is combative, and unhelpful if we truly desire relationship. <br /><br />Buber's "I & Thou", though not an easy read, sets the ground for healthy interaction in relationship. <br /><br />When I am comfortable with who I am, and know who's I am, I should be on solid ground to converse with anyone else. <br /><br />Some people think that being in relationship with people who are similar is easier. It may be, but it's not as interesting or enriching.<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-55216992778706656772015-09-05T17:13:00.001+12:002015-09-05T17:25:45.549+12:00Prepare for Refugees in Your Community <span style="font-size: large;">Frustrated by seeing news of refugees but wondering what you can do to help?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It will take a long time for those walking to Germany or waiting in camps to reach the communities where they will eventually settle. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">• Prepare for them. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Receiving traumatized people requires some careful thought and sensitivities.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.conversationsatintersections.blogspot.com/2009/07/ever-met-refugee-pt-1-of-3.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Consider their situation from their point of view. </span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Train with the organizations in your area. </span><br />
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Indianapolis, IN Area: <br />
Catholic Social Services <br />
1400 N. Meridian Street<br />
P.O. Box 1410<br />
Indianapolis, IN 46202<br />
317-236-1553<br />
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or <a href="http://www.exodusrefugee.org/getinvolved_volunteerform.html" target="_blank">Exodus Refugee Org</a><br />
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New Zealanders, train with the refugee arm of the <a href="https://www.redcross.org.nz/what-we-do/in-new-zealand/refugee-services/volunteer/" target="_blank">Red Cross.</a> They are brilliant and have offices in the major cities. Hamilton takes an amazing number of refugees!<br />
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• <span style="font-size: large;">Learn how to teach English as a second language. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Some Indiana colleges and libraries have programs you can enroll in or volunteer with. <a href="http://inside.iupui.edu/editors-picks/campus-life/2013-02-26-ipl-esl-iupui.shtml" target="_blank">IUPUI</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">• Plot ways to employ a refugee. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A local industry in Anderson, IN employs several Burmese people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Consider household items a refugee family will need and assemble them in preparation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep in mind too that just as refugees rarely get to choose their destination, you probably won't choose the refugee you'll come alongside to support. Refugees are on the move from Nigeria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria..... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. took significant numbers of people from Iraq, Somalia, Bhutan/Nepal, Burma and D.R.Congo. </span><br />
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Settling significant numbers in:<br />
1) Texas (7,211)<br />
2) California (6,110)<br />
3) New York (4,079)<br />
4) Michigan (4,000)<br />
5) Florida (3,519)<br />
6) Arizona (2,963)<br />
7) Ohio (2,812)<br />
8) Pennsylvania (2,743)<br />
9) Georgia (2,693)<br />
10) Illinois (2,578)<br />
North Carolina and Washington state are not far behind.<br />
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All of this was happening before that dear little boy washed up on a beach in Turkey,<br />
and before refugees, asylum seekers and migrants started flooding into Italy, Hungary, Austria and Germany. <br />
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Libya is a mess. So is South Sudan. Iraq and Afghanistan are unlivable in places. Syria? Unimaginable the dangers that have visited people who are in shock as to what happened to their previous lives. <br />
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A refugee is one who runs from immediate threat of torture, persecution, imprisonment, or death.<br />
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An asylum seeker shows up without documentation and hopes they<br />
lol be allowed to stay.<br />
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Migrants have choices and try to exercise them.<br />
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The lines between these categories are often fuzzy, thin or faint. <br />
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Defining and leveling people is the job of governments. <br />
Systems and processes require order. <br />
Some of these people just want a safe place for their children to live.<br />
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Many of us do not often think of the continuum of survive-live-thrive.<br />
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- Posted using BlogPressJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-43752003591858813492015-09-04T17:45:00.001+12:002015-09-18T16:51:34.152+12:00Refugees or Migrants? <font size="4">Migrants move because they can. <br />Refugees run because they have no option. <br /><br />Celts, Vikings and Norman's invaded and intermarried with those living in what we call Ireland. My family has Irish, Scottish, German, French and First Nations/Indian heritage, blood and DNA. <br /><br />Why did my ancestors first come to the New World? <br />Possibly because at least one ancestor was a horse thief. <br />Others were seeking opportunity or freedom. <br />I'm glad those who got here just before my ancestors didn't bar the gate, even against the horse thief. <br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad</font><br /><br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-32386892227272542372015-08-25T16:12:00.000+12:002015-08-25T16:12:00.388+12:00<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nycreligion.info/25-years-relief-bus/">A Journey through NY City Religions</a>- mapping the spiritual space of a city.<br /><br />What would we find if we did this in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin? What would it look like in your city?<br /><br /><br /><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=15/08/20/307.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/15/08/20/s_307.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='210' align='right' style='margin:5px'></a><br />They describe themselves: <br />We are an incubator and educator for new ways of doing religion reporting and understanding the postsecular city. We are nonsectarian and nonpartisan and open to anyone's cool and authoritative reporting on NYC religion.<br /><br />We are a public square for the postsecular city. People of faith, people of no faith, liberals, conservatives--all are welcomed to journey together to make this city better for all people. Our warmest feelings are toward those who help the poor, the needy, and the abused."<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nycreligion.info/25-years-relief-bus/">http://www.nycreligion.info/25-years-relief-bus/</a><br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mapping%20the%20spiritual%20spaces%20of%20NYC&z=10'>Mapping the spiritual spaces of NYC</a></p>Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-5507068753482669792015-08-21T16:06:00.001+12:002015-10-15T12:56:26.806+13:00Full of questions."... many Christians still allow cultural prejudices to shape their understanding of..."<br /><br />I read this online today and it made me pause.<br /><br />Which Christians? Those in Nigeria, New Zealand, Kosova, Cairo, Indiana, India...?<br /><br />Cultural prejudices? Which ones? And what of personal prejudices?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=15/08/20/298.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/15/08/20/s_298.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='266' align='right' style='margin:5px'></a><br /><br />When I first read the sentence, of which I've isolated only a fragment, I quickly thought of all the areas of application. I read it through my own lenses, my own life experiences. You will read the sentence through your lenses and will think your own thoughts, naturally.<br /><br />Christians will do that. The wealthy will think they're not so wealthy; there are others with more. Poor students will mock the camel attempting to get through the eye of the needle, thinking they're sweet because they're impoverished, not recognizing their own prejudice. <br /><br />How do we arrive at an objectivity that allows us to understand with a clarity untainted by prejudice?<br /><br />How do we relate with people, read Scripture and respond appropriately without everything being skewed by undisclosed bias and unexplored personal paradigms?<br /><br />I think we could fairly say, "... many people still allow cultural prejudices to shape their understanding of..."<br /> and we'd all nod our head saying, "Yes. And...?"<br /><br />The difference is that if we were talking about how we read and understand Scripture, well, our nationalistic, racial, cultural, gender, political, economic ... prejudices alter our understanding of the Gospel, God's identity, Jesus' mission, the Church, ..... pretty much everything really. Yet none of us live in the context in which Scripture was originally written, therefore ... <br /><br />Do we even desire an objectivity that allows us to understand with a clarity untainted by prejudice?<br />I'm full of questions.<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress<br /><br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-81581477533153939392015-07-07T16:48:00.001+12:002015-07-07T16:48:48.847+12:00Wendell Berry Wisdom Poetry<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Real Work </b>by Wendell Berry</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It may be that when we no longer know what to do</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">we have come to our real work,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">and that when we no longer know which way to go</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">we have come to our real journey.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The mind that is not baffled is not employed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The impeded stream is the one that sings.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"The Real Work" by Wendell Berry, from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Standing-Words-Essays-Wendell-Berry/dp/1582437459/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436244483&sr=8-1&keywords=standing+by+words" target="_blank">Standing by Words</a>. © 1983</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How To Be a Poet </b>by <a href="http://is.gd/NldMka" target="_blank">Wendell Berry</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>(to remind myself) </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Make a place to sit down. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sit down. Be quiet.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You must depend upon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">affection, reading, knowledge,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">skill—more of each</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">than you have—inspiration,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">work, growing older, patience, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for patience joins time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to eternity. Any readers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who like your work,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">doubt their judgment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Breathe with unconditional breath</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the unconditioned air.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Shun electric wire.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Communicate slowly. Live</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a three-dimensioned life;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">stay away from screens.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stay away from anything </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that obscures the place it is in.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are no unsacred places;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">there are only sacred places</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and desecrated places.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Accept what comes from silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Make the best you can of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of the little words that come</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">out of the silence, like prayers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">prayed back to the one who prays,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">make a poem that does not disturb</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the silence from which it came.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
"How to be a Poet" by Wendell Berry from <a href="http://is.gd/NldMka" target="_blank">Given</a>.<br />
© Shoemaker Hoard, 2005.Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-13306377684385834832015-07-02T06:02:00.001+12:002015-07-02T06:02:09.571+12:00Suffering, and responseJust thinking about suffering and people's response.<br /><br />Sometimes people respond to another's suffering out of their own experience or emotions. I've seen people respond unhelpfully to poverty because they felt guilty. Their response has been short sighted and caused problems they couldn't imagine. <br /><br /><b>Imagination is often a helpful thing to accompany wisdom.</b><br /><br />People's response to those who are dying is often complicated too. They are living out of their healthy norm, facing a probable loss in their circle of affection and they want to DO something. <br /><br />In reading <b>A Faithful Farewell </b>by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, written in the first person, I've paused to ponder, <i>"I need protection from the weight of other people’s grief. Some of them don’t realize how crushed I feel by their anguish....<br /><br />Still, it’s hard to go. And it’s hard to have to announce my going. I need to “gird my loins” for encounters with people who will be devastated. As I face each one, I need to pray for the patience, clarity, and kindness they will require. I know that a few of them will object and want me to get more opinions and seek more treatment options. I know that some of them will dissolve into their own grief,.... <br /><br />... my job is to allow myself to be kept in perfect peace, my mind stayed on Christ, and to meet each person’s sorrow with generous imagination for what my dying may mean to them. As I prepare for this final transition, they have to prepare for loss. Both are hard. Even for me, it’s not altogether easy to judge which of us are the “lucky” ones. I realize that the measure of life’s value doesn’t lie in its duration;..."</i><br /><br />Buy from <b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Farewell-Living-Your-Chapter/dp/0802872603">Amazon</a></b><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-50530789166484100762015-05-01T22:48:00.001+12:002015-05-01T22:48:25.983+12:00Certainty or faith?"Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We imagine that we have to reach some end, but that is not the nature of spiritual life. The nature of spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty, consequently we do not make our nests anywhere. Common sense says - "Well, supposing I were in that condition . . ." We cannot suppose ourselves in any condition we have never been in. Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. "<br />~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-7266295563508802842015-04-30T00:30:00.000+12:002015-04-30T00:30:00.806+12:00Motives Determine Much: ISIS<br />What ISIS Really Wants<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/<br /><br /><br />- Posted on the go using BlogPress<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-67043220910202434172015-04-28T17:27:00.001+12:002015-04-28T17:27:57.461+12:00Misplaced reliance: Christianity Has Changed<font size="4"><br />Social, economic, cultural and political factors influence how we live, process, choose, discern and how we live our faith.<br /><br />My wealth is reflected in my choices, what to eat, wear.... which blankets on my bed tonight. When I have choice, I have wealth. <br /><br />Richard Rohr reflects, "Much of what Jesus taught seems to have been followed closely during the first several hundred years after his death and resurrection. As long as Jesus' followers were on the bottom and the edge of empire, as long as they shared the rejected and betrayed status of Jesus, they could grasp his teaching more readily. <br /><br />Values like nonparticipation in war, simple living, inclusivity, and love of enemies could be more easily understood when Christians were gathering secretly in the catacombs, when their faith was untouched by empire, rationalization, and compromise. ..... <br /><br />"The Shepherd of Hermas, written around AD 120, gives the image of the church as a tower to be built of white round stones. Many of the stones are not suitable for use in construction; those stones are not rejected, but they are put away to one side. These stones represent believers who are still relying upon their wealth and success and, therefore, cannot build this new community. They cannot be used until they have been reshaped by the Gospel, and their reliance upon money and success has been taken from them." ... <br /><br />"I am not making a political-economic judgment here, but illustrating how Christianity has indeed changed with the times; there are both good and bad aspects to these changes. Let's try to hear the important truth that is presented, and read such statements from the early Christians with wisdom, prayer, and a non-dualistic mind. They can only make us wiser and more discerning." <br />Fr. Richard Rohr ~ https://cac.org/ -<br /><br /> Posted on the go using BlogPress</font><br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-44238492251636900942015-01-02T22:47:00.001+13:002015-01-02T22:47:44.752+13:00Stretch or break when stressedWhen rubber bands are unused in the drawer too long they become brittle or soft, and break when put under tension. You often only know after a bit of stretching, a bit of stress, whether they'll cope well or not. <br />So are we. In our comfort and complacency we often do not know whether we can stretch, whether we are still flexible, resilient and strong, or not.<br /><br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress<br />Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-83239469184352154012014-12-30T00:12:00.001+13:002014-12-30T00:12:18.821+13:00Unexpected dialogue: "Shall I hold the penguin?"<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, I went over to Waiheke with my friend Rachael to see her sister Miranda Hawthorn's art exhibition at The Red Shed at Palm Beach. We had a nice lunch, ate an ice cream in idyllic surroundings on a Summer day.... </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdNv5jNVtkhP44lPeA3jWeZ4XD28UFpxCBjMW5BHD5NMOcPH0-UFpuqXix4ixIgobJnQsEpruhFW5niKzTMVJr93BY6xgq0MpjYSjg4GJwbYSWkjko0TTnvgzMZq8rCuAbbsdXf6r0Wsu/s1600/IMG_4198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdNv5jNVtkhP44lPeA3jWeZ4XD28UFpxCBjMW5BHD5NMOcPH0-UFpuqXix4ixIgobJnQsEpruhFW5niKzTMVJr93BY6xgq0MpjYSjg4GJwbYSWkjko0TTnvgzMZq8rCuAbbsdXf6r0Wsu/s1600/IMG_4198.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>then </i>...</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">... with 651 people crammed on to a ferry, I stood by the gate so as to be near life jackets and exits.... only to hear myself say, "Shall I hold the penguin?"</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Never heard myself say such a thing before! </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The ferry staff were transporting an injured penguin to a refuge.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I held the penguin in a box while they roped the ferry to the pier, opened the gates, etc. Then I saw the crew person hand the box to an elderly lady. First off the ferry, I walked alongside the woman and learned the boxed bird was to go to the Bird Lady in Rothesay Bay.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The woman said, "Traffic will be horrible. It had to come on the 4 PM ferry!"</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I replied that I lived near the Bird Lady and could do the delivery if she liked. S</span><span style="background-color: white;">he gripped the box tighter.... until I said I was a member of NZ Forest & Bird. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">So Jane and Richie arrive to collect me and stroll along the nearby picnic area, ... only to find me with a penguin in a box under my arm!</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Off we go to the local Bird Lady who invited us in to see what the problem with the penguin was, and to see the rest of her guests; kingfishers, young tui, wood pigeons, young gulls who had washed off a flat roof and down a pipe into the gutter at the feet of a compassionate passerby, a rosella, other penguins and an adolescent Morepork owl!</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNu1afzONvZGkPwHVOTSaFn6H8RbRWQ1grMbbUdFjwAmi9QP_NFUvXOmFiOqcxccxcUh46RDHjGOzzmHYJRioSItC1oVOFs7SlRfdEQd4pGogqJp4yTPB6tBIoAZB3GX2PEsk6Yg4KhVz/s1600/IMG_4204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNu1afzONvZGkPwHVOTSaFn6H8RbRWQ1grMbbUdFjwAmi9QP_NFUvXOmFiOqcxccxcUh46RDHjGOzzmHYJRioSItC1oVOFs7SlRfdEQd4pGogqJp4yTPB6tBIoAZB3GX2PEsk6Yg4KhVz/s1600/IMG_4204.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Fascinating woman. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Fascinating day. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br style="background-color: white;" /></span></b></span><div style="text-align: right;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For more about Sylvia:<b style="font-size: xx-large;"> </b></span></i><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/9261296/On-a-wing-and-a-prayer">http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/9261296/On-a-wing-and-a-prayer</a></u></span></div>
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Jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697447903218002444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8186121819177662830.post-27888663068384767702014-12-09T13:07:00.002+13:002014-12-09T13:07:52.667+13:00Practical wisdom and why we need to value it<div class="MsoNormal">
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Aristotle was referring, in his <a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199213610.do">Nicomachean Ethics</a>,
to an attribute called practical wisdom – a quality that many modern engineers
have – but our western intellectual tradition has completely lost sight of. I
will describe briefly what Aristotle wrote about practical wisdom, argue for
its recognition and celebration and state that we need consciously to utilise
it as we face up to the uncertainties inherent in the engineering challenges of
climate change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Necessarily what follows is a simplified account of complex
and profound ideas. Aristotle saw five ways of arriving at the truth – he
called them art (<i>ars, techne</i>), science (<i>epistem</i>e), intuition (<i>nous</i>),
wisdom (<i>sophia</i>), and practical wisdom – sometimes translated as prudence
(<i>phronesis</i>). Ars or techne (from which we get the words art and
technical, technique and technology) was concerned with production but not
action. Art had a productive state, truly reasoned, with an end (i.e. a
product) other than itself (e.g. a building). It was not just a set of
activities and skills of craftsman but included the arts of the mind and what
we would now call the fine arts. The Greeks did not distinguish the fine arts
as the work of an inspired individual – that came only after the Renaissance.
So techne as the modern idea of mere technique or rule-following was only one
part of what Aristotle was referring to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Episteme</i> (from which we get the word
epistemology or knowledge) was of necessity and eternal; it is knowledge that
cannot come into being or cease to be; it is demonstrable and teachable and
depends on first principles. Later, when combined with Christianity, <i>episteme</i> as
eternal, universal, context-free knowledge has profoundly influenced western
thought and is at the heart of debates between science and religion. Intuition
or <i>nous</i> was a state of mind that apprehends these first
principles and we could think of it as our modern notion of intelligence or
intellect. Wisdom or sophia was the most finished form of knowledge – a
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Aristotle thought there were two kinds of virtues, the
intellectual and the moral. Practical wisdom or <i>phronesis</i> was
an intellectual virtue of perceiving and understanding in effective ways and
acting benevolently and beneficently. It was not an art and necessarily
involved ethics, not static but always changing, individual but also social and
cultural. As an illustration of the quotation at the head of this article,
Aristotle even referred to people who thought Anaxagoras and Thales were examples
of men with exceptional, marvelous, profound but useless knowledge because
their search was not for human goods...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Read the article: <a href="http://blog.oup.com/2014/07/practical-wisdom-vsi/">Blockley, D. (2014).
Practical wisdom and why we need to value it. <i>Oxford University Press
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycx5lrdqCS0" target="_blank">Radio New Zealand interview</a> video ranges widely from creative process to musing about suffering in the lives of people we love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brooke affirms her Christian faith but thinks labels are rather two dimensional and pigeon holing. I agree. There's so much more to her, and most people, than what media can describe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brooke's love of words started young and has born fruit in ways she didn't imagine. As a teenager, Brooke wanted to be a journalist. A prolific reader, she continues to learn and grow and stretch and create.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her latest album, Brutal Romantic, is available on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brutal-romantic/id921061888" target="_blank">iTunes</a> and other retailers. It opened at #1 on NZ charts. Her tour dates for <a href="http://www.brookefraser.com/" target="_blank">North America, Australia and New Zealand</a> can be found at her terrific <a href="https://twitter.com/burtsbusiness" target="_blank">Kiwi </a>designed website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watch Kings & Queens video <a href="http://www.brookefraser.com/kings-and-queens-video-2/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love her sense of humour and groundedness. She knows who she is and fights to maintain her identity in what could otherwise be a crazy industry and lifestyle.</span><br />
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