...I do agree:

...do you?

...one more time, some important thoughts to ponder

...as we dash to this week's end

...and get ready for the beginning of the week to come

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Reaching Beyond Ourselves...

The salient fact about the community we yearn for, and that calls us into wholeness, is that it cannot exist for itself.  It exists only in relationship to the world.  In recent years we have awakened to the fact that the people of this world are largely destitute--without food and clothing and shelter, and without structures that nourish an inward life.  Unless a group of persons reach beyond themselves to touch and be touched by some of this need, its members will not know community.

......by:  Elizabeth O'Connor
...from:  The New Community

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...the picture was taken last year just south of where we live here in Parker, CO when hundreds of high school students spent the night and the next day imagining what it would be like to be living in poverty for at least 24 hours with very limited food, water and shelter.  The event, sponsored by Invisible Children, shook some of the kids...like we all need to be shaken.  I was stirred as I walked late at night among the kids from various youth groups and listened to how this was shifting their souls.

This is just one mission...one I value...among several very important missions...especially this one, because of personal connection to the man who leads it, my friend, Tom Davis...but...we need to do what we can where we are...and champion those who will go to other places and give voice to the Good News and live it out...just as we need to be doing right where we find ourselves today...now...and tomorrow.