Abraham Lincoln – Jackson Community Church

Reflections on Veterans Day

SONGS for VETERANS DAY (patriotic & critiques, plus songs from different veteran and veterans’ family experiences): Paradise by Craig Morgan (country): https://youtu.be/f8tn020YucU Just Came Home by Darryl Worley (country): https://youtu.be/KwpO8Q1u4Ss Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen (rock): https://youtu.be/EPhWR4d3FJQ America by Neil Diamond (rock/pop): https://youtu.be/wTSLRbm8L9E Dear Uncle Sam by Loretta Lynn (countrry): https://youtu.be/ZwOhZufXYso Letters from […]

Meditations on freedom: spiritual and social

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. — Jean-Paul Sartre The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. — Ralph Ellison We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at […]

Mothers and miracles: matriarchs and mothers and others who love us and start us on the path to becoming whole human beings

… give them to all the people who helped mother our children. … I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain. Like everything else, it can fill me only if it is ordinary and available to all. — Anne Lamott Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. […]

Love on the move. Themes from Gospel of John

Bending down to wash and anoint someone’s feet. What story do our feet tell about us? How we live? How do we love? How do we touch the earth? Indeed, what amazing gifts might must be ours if we could kneel and honor the humanity in another? I imagine we might just start to see […]

Reflections on giving plus meditations on Veterans Day

Excerpt from Second Inaugural Address … public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation … Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray […]