Meeting Crises

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

War bonds? Peace bonds make a better investment.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Sometimes I am aware that I know very little. I know the routines of my day-to-day existence, but of any larger scheme or plan or meaning or ultimate goal I can only speculate, as if fumbling around in a dense fog. Occasionally I get a glimpse of something ultimate in a moment when light breaks through that fog. I use that piece of ultimate truth to give me some bearing and orient me in the cosmos. That helps, but the fog remains. Please keep your light shining on the pieces of your truth that give me hope and inspiration.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Which way is up?”

[On a roundish and rotating planet, and in a multi-dimensional universe, that’s a good question, but He didn’t need to ask.]

D. Blog: When Crisis Comes

We can see all manner of crises ahead (climate change, peak oil and energy descent, population overload, resource depletion, pollution of air and water and soil). Yet I can see the opportunity in them, and they bring an excitement that the status quo does not. The challenges, I think, stir our creativity in ways that might otherwise leave it dormant. The challenges also encourage us to reach out to neighbors in ways we would otherwise not be inclined to do. We are moved to say “I need some help” and “How can I help?” We are moved to work together lest we fail to meet the challenges.