Values

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

You can’t put a price on peace. That’s one of the problems with it.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

I accuse you – of making a universe too vast for us to measure.
I accuse you – of making life so diverse that we can neither apprehend nor categorize it all.
I accuse you – of making Earth so beautiful that we cannot put a price on it.
I accuse you – of making humans so intelligent and so creative that we see our resemblance to you.

Guilty, but thank you.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“You got my text message about the new pork barbecue place, right?”

[I think they call it 12 Bones. In Asheville, where Obama got his lunch the other day. Nah, He never said this.]

D. Blog: Glacier National Park Reflection

In this place, my eyes apprehend more natural beauty than my mind can comprehend.
In this place, the scenery holds more than thousands of photographs can express.
In this place, the timeless spirits speak to my spirit in ways that soothe and feed and inspire.
In this place, the ancients and even the moderns recognize the sacred that reaches ar beyond our categories of worth and value.
Little did they know when those pecuniary interests in Congress recognized this place as “worthless” the irony in their assessment.
In this place, worth does not compute.