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Reflections on giving plus meditations on Veterans Day

By jacksonnhccPosted on November 8, 2018Posted in Home, Justice & Activism, Weekly MeditationsTagged Abraham Lincoln, Adrienne Rich, Alexander McCall Smith, armistice day, Barbara Kingsolver, Barry López, Bruce Epperly, Buddha, Ellis Peters, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, John Wesley, Kahlil Gibran, Karen Kleiman, mother theresa, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Hammerstein II, Oscar Wilde, Penelope Quest, Stephen Donaldson, Steve Maraboli, Truman Capote, Veterans Day, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, woodrow wilson

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 to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully … With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. — Abraham Lincoln

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Reflections on themes from Palm Sunday

By jacksonnhccPosted on March 20, 2018Posted in Home, Weekly MeditationsTagged Alan Fleischmann, anegla maiers, Brene Brown, Buddha, Cameron Kasky, Gospel of Mark, henry kissinger, Leonid Bershidsky, Madeleine Albright, Nelson Mandela, Palm Sunday, Simon Sinek, Tony Blair, woodrow wilson, world leaders

Just like 2000 years ago, similar to the crowds who welcomed their Messiah on Palm Sunday, we grapple with the tension between what people hope leaders can and should be and the reality of who comes to lead us. Also: what question is being asked of you as a leader in your own corner of the world? — Rev Gail

You matter, you are enough, you have influence … you have a contribution to make. You have a gift others need. It will be your actions that define your impact, you are change. You matter. — Angela Maiers, New Teacher Center

Engraved on Sundial

The shadow of my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it stands the unborn hour
In darkness and beyond thy power;

Behind its unreturning line
The vanished hour, no longer thine;
One hour alone is in thy hands,
The now on which the shadow stands.

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