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Thursday, November 26, 2015

A Force for Doing Good..

You are bothered by the fact that people suffer undeservedly. As you should be. Any person with an ounce of moral sensitivity is outraged by the injustices of our world. But what if we found the answer? What if someone came along and gave us a satisfying explanation? What if the mystery were finally solved? What if we asked why, and actually got an answer? Would that make the pain of injudtice any less? I dont think so ,someday we’ll see with clarity, but for now things are foggy. We can’t understand everything from our finite perspective. And frankly, the people suffering don’t need a big theological treatise right now; any intellectual response is going to seem trite and inadequate. What they desperately need now is the very real and comforting presence of Christ. Take your righteous anger and turn it into a force for doing good. Redirect your frustration with injustice and unfairness and channel it into a drive to fight injustice and unfairness. Let your outrage propel you into action.

Thanksgiving - Psalm 100

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures for ever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. ~ Psalm 100:4-5

Mercy

Mercy cannot be withheld. If it were left to mankind, Mercy would be in scant supply; for we are fundamentally unforgiving creatures and don't understand what mercy is. Real Mercy flows downward in infinite abundance from the Lord, and is dispensed without regard to circumstances according to His infinite generosity.

Thanksgiving - 2015

Monday, November 23, 2015

Gratitude May Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease : Shots - Health News : NPR

One Block -- New York Magazine

One Block -- New York Magazine

To understand those changes, we dispatched a team of reporters to find a place where Brooklyn’s past and future are next-door neighbors. There were, of course, many blocks to choose from, but we settled on the 400 block of MacDonough Street between Patchen and Malcolm X, a brownstone block in Bed-Stuy close to the Utica stop on the A/C line.