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7 posts tagged Mercy
Haunting portraits of the homeless (a CNN photo story)
…or, it could be titled, “Created in the image of God.”
“Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one’s life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the
evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?”
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
“Show us that joy comes when we are caught up in works of mercy and find ourselves unable to distinguish between our blessings and those of our brothers and sisters.”
Book of Common Prayer
There is a very dear and very special team of people from NW Arkansas who are in Haiti today serving with Help End Local Poverty.
Please take a few moments to follow their story on the Help End Local Poverty Blog
Mark Horvath, my friend & Founder of InvisiblePeople.tv, launches WeAreVisible.com to Empower Homeless People via Social Media.
WeAreVisible.com’s mission is to give people dealing with poverty and homelessness the tools they need to get online and have a voice. The site teaches them how to sign up for email, open a Twitter account, join Facebook, create a blog and, in general, take advantage of the benefits of online social media. It also has the potential to become a model for virtual case management as it helps build a community among homeless people and support service providers.
More info re: how Cobblestone Project.org will be using WeAreVisible.com
…The Idea Camp Pacific NW started YESTERDAY!
Yes, I know that The Idea Camp is still ‘officially’ 13 days away from starting, but I went ahead and took the liberty of kicking it off yesterday (at least for me). Hope that’s okay with everyone.
Here’s what I love about The Idea Camp…it transcends a time & a place.
Because when you’re all about the power of relationships, you know that they just don’t fit into a couple days in a single place.
And so, they overflow, and that is beautiful.
It’s beautiful because I think that’s what relationships are supposed to do. Authentic relationships are marked by the overflow into the world around us, and they continue to overflow until they fill all the broken and dark places.
…and that sounds a lot like being present.
Yesterday through a series of unpredictable, unplanned and even unwanted circumstance, I met a couple new friends whose lives are marked by the overflow. They understand (and are teaching) me that what brings people together at The Idea Camp doesn’t have to wait until The Idea Camp.
…true mercy, justice and compassion aren’t confined to a specific time & place, so why should relationships developed around these themes be confined as well?
Well, they aren’t, and my new friends that I met yesterday (because of The Idea Camp) know this much better than I.
You see, it’s people like this that are at the heartbeat of why we gather for a couple days in a single place.
For me, The Idea Camp is a place where I can come…to simply find the overflow.
So, I went ahead and kicked it off…
Quick video from Aaron Ivey House Tour evening, and we will be posting all of the videos after the house tour is over (we don’t want to spoil it for anyone)
I am in the process of collecting and putting down some words, thoughts and impressions from this evening and will post them shortly.
For more info on the band, please visit AaronIvey.com
