tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348857862024-03-07T19:09:52.968-07:00BeatonBlogjust another way for grandma to show off the kids and the cabin, admire the wonder of life in this, God's creation and think aloud about how fortunate we are to have an abundance to share and how easy it is to make a difference in another person's life.janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.comBlogger309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-78200147622598583672013-02-24T20:31:00.001-07:002013-02-24T20:48:58.532-07:00Tar Sands = Corporate Madness Who benefits from this madness? Short term gain is the name. Long term pain is our legacy to our grandchildren.<br />
My heart aches and my prayers go out to send strength to each and every courageous person trying to stop this madness... and more prayers that eyes and hearts will open to the dire need to protect our Mother who gives us life.<br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Blockadia Rising - Voices of the Tar Sands <br /> 54 minute documentary on Tar Sands Resistance.<br /> <br />
"The film is meant to be both a celebration of the blockades'
achievements and a primer for those interested in joining the campaign.
It explains the dangers of tar sands extraction and the risks to public
health posed by the pipeline as well as the strategy of non-violent
direct action that has been delaying the pipeline so far."<br /> <br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <a href="http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/weekofaction/" target="_blank">Stop Tar Sands Profiteers: Join the Week of Action</a><br /> * 16 to 23 March, 2013 * </span></span></span> </h5>
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janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-79953942239857803862013-01-06T20:11:00.000-07:002013-01-06T20:18:29.488-07:00Zimmerman: A Settler’s Guide to IDLE NO MOREIdle No More is not just a "native" issue. Idle No More should be a wake-up call to all of us. This call is to those of us Canadians who are non-indigenous. Immigrants and children of immigrants to this country. We Settlers are also in danger of losing our access to precious air and water. We must educate ourselves on history and how prejudices and injustices from the past are perpetuated on and on in our present culture. It is time we all join in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the First Nations all around the world.<br />
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This has to be the best blog I have seen so far and it needs to be shared widely...<br />
I'm posting the link here and also copying the text for you and for me so I can find it again and again (hugs) jan<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Zimmerman:</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://cdnopposition.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/zimmerman-a-settlers-guide-to-idle-no-more/" target="_blank">A Settler’s Guide to IDLE NO MORE</a></span></h1>
I used to be such a proud Canadian. So much so that I now have a red
maple leaf tattooed forever on my left arm. I had just traveled from
Toronto to Vancouver; I felt particularly patriotic and zealous at the
time. That’s what happens when you decide things on a whim, but
sometimes people have to make such decisions and live with the
consequences. It stands as a reminder to me of a time when national
boundaries and ideas of intrinsic national character mattered to me.
All it would take is some decent education and experiences and the
worldly upheavals of 2011 and 2012 to shake me out of this mentality.
Most importantly though, looking to the situations involving Canada’s
First Nations would make me realize that there was little to really be
proud of.<br />
<br />
We see now happening in this country a major unprecedented movement,
that is the Idle No More movement. Many of us have seen them on the
news or in person, large marches or flash mobs taking place in cities
across this nation. The movement has even gone beyond borders, starting
up demonstrations in the United States, but also in Europe and even in
Cairo, Egypt recently. Many of us descended from settlers may scratch
our heads. Years ago, if the movement had been raging on then, I too
would be doing the same. We have seen aboriginal movement before; Oka,
Burnt Church, Ipperwash, and more recently Caledonia. Never have we
seen something so large-scale and concerted as Idle No More. I think it
more likely than not that we are going to be seeing much, much more of
it in the year(s) ahead. It is planned to be enormous and completely
unprecedented. So, what is Idle No More about? What are the issues
involving the first peoples of this country that makes them take part in
such a huge movement that is so critical of the Canadian government?
Let’s look into it.<br />
<br />
I remember it was precisely in grade four, perhaps unlike previous
generations, when I learned about the plight of the indigenous peoples.
The story was that hundreds of years ago settlers came from Europe and
took over the land from the native peoples. It was taught as tragic but
I saw it as something from the past. The native Indian itself was
something that belonged to a bygone age before the modern era, before
even my great-grandparents time (incidentally most of my family came
from Europe in the early 20th century). The context of the First
Nations in this day and age was never taught, or even of the plights
they faced in the first part of the 20th century. Learning more as I
aged I was proud of the fact that the treatment of natives in Canada was
not like the treatment in the United States where scenes like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBZkS0uYrpo">this</a>
happened as late as the 1890′s. Yes, natives in Canada were not
“conquered” the way they were in the United States. The system of
reservations were done with little bloodshed in comparison. Instead of
violent conquest the modern nation-state of Canada entered into a series
of treaties with First Nations peoples. I will return to this issue
shortly below. At the time I thought this was at least something to be
proud of.<br />
<br />
And then I learned more. The most shocking thing (to me at first
anyway) I find is the wide-spread casual racism towards aboriginal
peoples in Canada. An overriding sentiment seems to be one of: “What’s
wrong with the natives? Why are so many of them homeless and addicted
to drugs or alcoholics?” Whenever I would bring up the context of the
past the response was almost always: “It doesn’t matter. Now is now.”
The past, in so many peoples eyes, doesn’t seem to add up to the
present. Even in my mind, until the past few years, the reality of
native peoples losing lands to settlers <i>was</i> a matter of the past.<br />
<br />
One thing to understand about the past is that the colonial
disruption to native peoples, that is, the tragedy of the colonial era
when Europeans first started colonizing this northern land, the
large-scale die-off caused by disease and settler violence, is not where
the native tragedy ends. As recently as the past century First Nations
children were literally forced into the federal and ecumenical
residential school system. These schools were compulsory due to the
pre-confederation Gradual Civilization Act (1857) and the Gradual
Enfranchisement Act (1869). The schools in Canada were generally under
provincial jurisdiction (as the public system is to this day) but
aboriginal children fell under federal jurisdiction and Churches in
Canada (Roman Catholic and Anglican mainly) provided the teachers to
shoulder the cost. The goal of the system was to, as Canada’s
government has now admitted in retrospect, cause the <a href="http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/news/article_1410655.php/Canada_apologizes_for_killing_the_Indian_in_the_child__Roundup_">“killing of the Indian in the child.” </a>
The Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869, in particular, was designed
to assimilate aboriginal people and make them citizens of Canada so that
the treaty rights once negotiated between the Canadian state and First
Nations no longer applied to them. In short, it was a long-term
solution to de-Indian generations of native people in order to renege on
Canada’s treaty obligations.<br />
<br />
Of course we know this as Canada’s government has officially
apologized for the abuse suffered by native children in the near full
century (1884 – 1948) in which mortality rates were suggested to have
been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_indian_residential_school_system#Mortality_rates">30% to 60% </a>at
the beginning of the 20th century. The abuse is now well-documented
and the long-lasting effects have been terrifyingly potent for
generations of first peoples in Canada, giving scores of people post
traumatic stress disorder, <a href="http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/addictive-behaviours.pdf">drug abuse and alcoholism, and leading to incarceration </a>that
is far more prevalent for indigenous peoples than any other culture
within Canada. When I first read about the residential school system
and it’s long-term effects I was ashamed. Eventually I managed to
rationalize this sad legacy as also being “a part of the past”.<br />
<br />
It gets worse though. The mistreatment of First Nations peoples goes
beyond the residential schools system. To this day native children are
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/02/pol-first-nations-kids.html">still being taken from their parents</a>.
Add to that the dismal living standards they face compared to the rest
of the country. The idea of the treaty system was that Canada and the
various First Nations would be able to live peacefully with one another
and that both Canadians (settlers and their descendents) and the first
peoples would be able to share the land, it’s resources and wealth
equally. The federal government has been criticized for<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/02/pol-first-nations-kids.html"> underfunding</a> native services, in particular child welfare services. An estimated <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/02/pol-first-nations-kids.html">20,000 First Nations living on reserves have no access to running water or sewage</a>. According to <a href="http://www.amnesty.ca/our-work/issues/indigenous-peoples/no-more-stolen-sisters">Canadian government statistics</a>
aboriginal women are five to seven times more likely to die as a result
of violence than other women in the country, due to the long-term
legacy of governmental policies that have broken families and
communities, making their women more vulnerable as a result. Indigenous
peoples, on top of numerous other terrifying realities, are more likely
to have lifespans <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Idle+More/7753967/story.html">twenty years shorter</a> than other Canadians.<br />
<br />
Some might argue that Canada has no obligation to First Nations
peoples, particularly since they do not consider themselves Canadians in
all cases. This is a flat-out wrong way of thinking though for a
number of reasons, the most obvious one being that Canada uses
native-recognized lands and waterways to this day in order to subsidize
the nation’s wealth. In short, Canada benefits from its use of native
land and resources, yet the natives get no benefit in return from the
Canadian government. Here is where Idle No More comes in. Just last
month the federal government, as part of the omnibus bill entitled Bill
C-45, overhauled the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) of 1882 and
renamed it the Navigation Protection Act (NPA). The original NWPA was
made to ensure that any projects, particularly industrial projects such
as oil pipelines, were given environmental legislation, that is, any
projects would be open for democratic discussion with all stakeholders
on the potential environmental and ecological impacts. Nothing could be
approved without consultation with all stakeholders, many of whom were
first nations communities that were due to the treaties between Canada
and their respective nations. If an aboriginal community did not want a
pipeline, for instance, going over a river that belonged to their
people, the pipeline would likely not be built at that location. The
Harper Conservatives have been itching to expand the reach of the
Alberta Tar Sands, proposing pipelines over to the Pacific Ocean as well
as expanding pipelines Eastward to the maritime provinces. These
pipelines would allow the rapid expansion of the Tar Sands (or Oil Sands
if you are a government or petro-company spokesperson). The new
Navigation Protection Act (NPA) that was passed with Bill C-45 made it
so the approval process would only be required if the <a href="http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Hundreds+march+Regina+against+Bill/7696830/story.html">waterway in question was on a list set by the Minister of Transportation</a>, thus giving the government more space to propose these projects.<br />
Bill C-45 was passed toward the end of 2012. The New Democratic
Party invited various First Nations leaders to the debate in Parliament,
but they were barred from entry. This act of disallowing native
leaders to discuss openly the use of their lands and waterways is rife
symbolism of the current Canadian government’s true feelings towards the
first peoples. Three women (Nina Wilson, Sylvia McAdam and Jessica
Gordon) started the Idle No More movement in November 2012, starting
with a teach-in in Saskatoon in response to the first introduction of
Bill C-45 in Canada’s parliament. These teach-ins spread to Regina, and
then spread quickly to the provinces of Alberta and Manitoba. Since
then there have been flash mobs in Toronto’s Eaton Centre and Yorkdale
malls, the Cornwall Centre in Regina, the West Edmonton Mall in
Edmonton, as well as one at a mall in Minnesota, U.S. A few days passed
before 400 people participated in a flash mob dance in Midtown Plaza in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. On the 17th of December First Nations issued a
press release stating that they did not recognize the legality of any
laws passed by the Government of Canada “including but not limited to<a href="http://treatysix.org/upload/documents/CT6FN%20PRESS%20RELEASE%20Bill%20C45%20and%20other%20legislations%2017DEC12%20v2.pdf">
Bill C-45, which do not fulfill their constitutionally recognized and
affirmed Treaty and Aboriginal rights; as well as the Crown’s legal
obligations to meaningfully consult and accommodate First Nations</a>.”
One of the more high-profile actions was taken by Attawapiskat Chief
Theresa Spence when she launched a hunger strike on December 16th,
demanding that Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet with her to discuss
the plight faced by First Nations in Canada. As of this writing PM
Harper has refused to meet with her.<br />
<br />
So how do we make sense of this, those of us who are not of the First
Nations? Some may cringe from the criticism and scoff at the
designation as being part of a settler society. Our generation did not
commit the initial colonial crimes of the past, and this is true. There
is no need in feeling personal guilt at causing the crimes, but there
is a reality that we have benefited from the dispossession of indigenous
peoples and continue to benefit to this day. Personal guilt over
colonialism is irrelevant as it is, since this is not about any
individuals but about societies as a whole and how we relate to one
another. To feel personal guilt is to internalize the situation and
make it about oneself rather than everyone else. Personally I knew the
colonialism of the past was an injustice, yet I cannot dis-acknowledge
that the present continues to be one of dispossession and land and
resource grabbing on part of the modern nation-state to which I belong
and the country that acts in my name. No one can alter the past, but
one can do something about the present and in turn, the future.<br />
<br />
There is no need also on part of those of us descended from settlers
to feel threatened or blamed by the Idle No More movement. The movement
is completely peaceful and inclusive. No one is talking about sending
any of us “back” to Europe or any such thing. This is made clear by the
official website on the Mission page: <b>All people will be
affected by the continued damage to the land and water and we welcome
Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies to join in creating healthy
sustainable communities. We encourage youth to become engaged in this
movement as you are the leaders of our future. </b><br />
The movement is grassroots and decentralized, having no clear leaders
per say and thus being a form of grassroots democracy, not unlike the
Occupy movement of 2011 and 2012. Although the aboriginal issues are at
the start of the movement, the overall goal is to create a better
future for all peoples in the land that is labelled Canada on the modern
globe. The exploitation of the Tar Sands, for instance, threatens
First Nations, Canadians and the world as a whole. NASA scientist James
Hansen said recently:<br />
<i>“Canada’s tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen,
contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in
our entire history. If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and
continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/coal/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about coal.">coal</a>
supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually
would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5
million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is
now. That level of heat-trapping gases would assure that the
disintegration of the ice sheets would accelerate out of control. Sea
levels would rise and destroy coastal cities. Global temperatures would
become intolerable. Twenty to 50 percent of the planet’s species would
be driven to extinction. Civilization would be at risk.” </i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=0">(May 9, 2012)</a><br />
<br />
Dr. Pamela Palmater, chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson
University in Toronto and activist with Idle No More said even more
recently that “First Nations, with our constitutionally protected
aboriginal and treaty rights, are Canadians’ last best hope to protect
the lands, waters, plants and animals from complete destruction — which
doesn’t just benefit our children, but the children of all Canadians.” (<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Idle+More/7753967/story.html">December 28, 2012</a>) Indeed the children of the world may depend on the success of this movement.<br />
<br />
As I stated once before in another article, a little humility can go a
long way. Taking part in this movement can teach everyone, aboriginal
and non-aboriginal, a thing or two about different worldviews and
different ways of doing things, leading us all to a sustainable and
equally prosperous future. The past three years have seen incredible
changes in the world, uprisings and global awakenings. Let’s see things
finally made right here and everywhere else.<br />
<br />janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-40418006764390003032012-12-28T19:33:00.001-07:002012-12-28T19:33:16.274-07:00Idle No More<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I have never
been good with words, with facts, with details. My personal problem has always
been that information going into my brain doesn't come back out easily as words
but it does affect how I feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I have
always listened to what my heart says and that gets me in trouble because
everyone wants words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> When my heart speaks, people want me to back it up with facts. To somehow convince them. That's just not who I am. I became involved with Occupy because I saw some sort of hope there. Some way I could participate in a supportive role without having to use words.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">And now it's time to be Idle No More.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Chief Theresa Spence says the pain of her people is too great.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">She is on day 17 of her hunger strike and is prepared to die for her people. </span></div>
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I know nothing about navigable waters except what I hear
from Elizabeth May, our Green Party leader who I trust and pray can make a difference. I just see that our government is putting laws into place
that most Canadians know nothing about and doing it at a speed that is
frightening. Stephen Harper himself didn't like omnibus bills until he
gained the power to use them himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
this point I don't see any reasonable debate and I see a party line and a whole
bunch of sheeple in parliament that frighten me with the power they give their
leader. It's time our government began listening to the people and not to the
corporate need for a stronger 'economy' at the expense of Mother Earth.
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I have spent weeks going thru the Indian Act and the
1995 Royal Commission and much time following the Truth and Reconciliation
hearings and recommendations coming from our church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much stuff we never learned in
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many generations of people
living with damage to their souls that will take even more generations to heal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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I believe there is corruption everywhere, not just within
First Nations, so we need to clean our own slates before pointing fingers at
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe the First Nations need
a stronger voice in whatever decisions they say affect them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't see them having this voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chief Theresa Spence is demanding a voice,
demanding respect for treaties signed by ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray she can stay strong and healthy because I dread what could ensue if she dies.</div>
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Idle No More was started by four ordinary
women tired of the battle they have been waging. They also want their voices heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The response has been overwhelming from the
grassroots level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am prepared to
support them however I can. </div>
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later man, jan (hugs) </div>
janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-12349062174553347452012-03-08T11:45:00.001-07:002012-03-08T11:47:14.167-07:00Fire & Grace Contemplative Worship<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fire &
Grace Contemplative Prayer Service</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Living Spirit United Church – March 8, 2012</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Welcome </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Opening
Reading </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(spoken together)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Beloved, through the energy of Love,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> brought forth the world. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From
the rising to the setting sun, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Love radiates out to all the nations </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">perfect
in beauty.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Beloved has come </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and will not keep silence; for</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Divine
Love is a consuming Fire, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">calling forth heaven and earth </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to the
judgement of all peoples:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Gather around, my loyal friends, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">all who by repentance and recompense</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> follow the
Inner Way.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
universe forever proclaims justice,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
the Beloved’s Indwelling Presence </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">guides those who hear with their heart’s ear. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Psalm 50: 1-7 trans. Nan C Merrill)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">O God, we call. O God, we call.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From deep inside we yearn;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From deep inside we
yearn</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From deep inside we
yearn, for You</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">VU #411</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(repeat)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Readings…
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
reading – listen, what word or phrase draws you.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
reading – listen, for an image that relates to your life.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3<sup>rd</sup>
reading – listen, what might God be calling you to?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">“The life of faith carries with it many temptations,
and this is surely one of them – to imagine that the outward signs of our
devotion can constitute the whole of our relationship with God. The same culture that prescribes ritual also
insists that ritual itself is not omnicompetent; it is no substitute for
ethics, or for the surrender of self-will without which it is impossible to
love God or anyone else. Worshipping God
can look pretty perfect on the outside and still be empty on the inside.”<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(Barbara Crafton)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">O God, we call. O God, we call.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From deep inside we yearn;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From deep inside we
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From deep inside we
yearn, for You</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">VU #411</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(repeat)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (repeat)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Closing: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(spoken together)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Restore
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Psalm
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Namaste.</span></b></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-52208474462009552452012-03-05T14:05:00.000-07:002012-03-05T14:05:26.720-07:00Demanding a Full Public Independent Inquiry<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HDPaRKXoVeA" width="560"></iframe>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-51349370154738789202012-03-04T17:57:00.000-07:002012-03-04T17:57:06.071-07:00I Was Blind, But Now I See...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif--><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 48.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">“All that is necessary for
evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke) </span></strong></span></div>
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Where’s the problem? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My life is just fine, thank you.</div>
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I used to be proud to call myself Canadian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I realize I have been blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conditioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To give more and more to charity to help more and more people who are
hurting more and more every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How bad
does it have to get to wake me up?</div>
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My elected representative doesn’t actually represent me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t believe what I believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Canada’s exit from the Kyoto Protocol shamed me before
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I watched!</div>
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I wrote to protest Bill C-10 that will ensure that petty
criminals are imprisoned alongside the dangerous ones, encouraging further
crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And received the ‘not now little
girl’ reply.</div>
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I wrote to protest Bill C-30 that will give our police force
the right and authority to monitor our e-mails, web history, and private
activity without warrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And received
the ‘not now little girl’ reply.</div>
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And blindly following our neighbor into war? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next one with Iran? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iran has no weapons of mass destruction. The
only country which does have nuclear weapons in the region is the very country
we are siding with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds pretty scary
to me with Russia and China in the wings.</div>
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Our freedoms are slowly being taken away and we are doing
nothing?</div>
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Heard of NDAA? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
National Defense Authorization Act in the United States… allows the military to
indefinitely detain American citizens considered ‘terrorists’ or threats to the
system. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We now have the ‘Beyond the
Borders: Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness’ act, the recent
integration of ‘security’ between Canada and the U.S. which now makes it
possible for the U.S. to charge any Canadian as well.</div>
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Now we sit quietly to wait for new government budgets to bring
austerity measures that will tear down our society, our healthcare, our Old Age
Pension, our EI insurance and all the other social welfare programs our parents
worked so hard to achieve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m comparing
this to the dollars to be spent on fighter jets, battleships, super-prisons
around the country and even a glass dome on our Parliamentary building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Nothing there about recovering offshore money. </span>I don’t like what I see.</div>
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The final straw should be this fraud in our elections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These so-called robocalls to confuse voters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear this has been under investigation
since June.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the dirt is coming to
light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enough light to wake up the
sleeping?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope so.</div>
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We need to look in our mirrors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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We need to look deep in our hearts and accept
that we, the people, have not bothered to stand up for our
rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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But all is not lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we, the people can turn this thing
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It’s time to stand up and be
counted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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What kind of country, what kind
of world, are we leaving behind for our grandchildren?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I have looked and I don’t like what I’ve seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I am speaking out.</div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Get Fraud out of Parliament NOW!</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We call on ALL THE PEOPLE <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to join in PROTEST </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-Sunday, March 11, from 2 to 4 pm on
the steps of Calgary City Hall<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">We the people of Canada demand …a FULL PUBLIC
INQUIRY INTO THE ROBOCALLS AND BY-ELECTIONS IN ALL AFFECTED RIDINGS!</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">1) We ask for a public and independent criminal
investigation.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">2) We ask for by-elections in every riding affected
by the scandal.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">3) We ask for the resignation of any member of
parliament found to be involved in any way.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">This will be a peaceful protest and family friendly
environment.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/279165258822521" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.facebook.com/events/279165258822521</span></a><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Get
Fraud out of Parliament NOW!</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"our lives begin to end </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the day we remain silent about things that matter"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Martin Luther King) </span></div>
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Later man, jan<span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-85048622318340296642012-03-02T15:31:00.000-07:002012-03-02T15:34:01.005-07:00Protect our Democracy<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Get Fraud out of
Parliament NOW!</span></u></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We call on ALL THE PEOPLE to join in PROTEST </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">-Sunday, March 11, from 2 to 4 pm on
the steps of Calgary City Hall<br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">We the people of Canada demand a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FULL PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE ROBOCALLS AND
BY-ELECTIONS IN ALL AFFECTED RIDINGS!</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">1) We ask for a public and independent criminal
investigation.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">2) We ask for by-elections in every riding affected
by the scandal.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">3) We ask for the resignation of any member of parliament
found to be involved in any way.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">This will be a peaceful protest and family friendly
environment.</span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/279165258822521" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>events/279165258822521</a></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Get Fraud out of Parliament NOW!</span></u></b></span></div>
<span class="textexposedshow"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></u></b></span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></u></b></span>
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">for information on protest rallies in other Canadian locations, please check this facebook event link.</span></span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/181631648613672/">http://www.facebook.com/events/181631648613672/</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">later man, jan</span></span>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-61497937370226024962012-02-26T15:34:00.001-07:002012-02-26T15:34:34.741-07:00Fire & Grace Contemplative Worshiponce again I forgot those of you who missed the service Thursday morning, here it is (hugs)<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fire &
Grace Contemplative Prayer Service</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Living Spirit United Church – February 23, 2012</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Welcome </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Opening
Reading </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(spoken together)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus
says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom, do not let the mighty
boast in their might, do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth; but let
those who boast glory in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the
Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for
in these things I delight, says the Lord</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. (Jeremiah 9:23,24)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant: </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Slowly blooms the
rose within, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">slowly blooms the rose within.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Readings…
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
reading – listen, what word or phrase draws you.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
reading – listen, for an image that relates to your life.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3<sup>rd</sup>
reading – listen, what might God be calling you to?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Most gracious Presence, let me not be arrogant, nor
boast of my virtuous deeds; Let me not seek fame or set my heart on the riches
of the world. Help me to calm and quiet
my soul, like a child quieted at its mother’s breast; like a child that is
quieted, be so my soul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(Psalm 131 trans Nan C Merrill)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Slowly blooms the
rose within, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">slowly blooms the rose within.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Silent Meditation </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(15-20 minutes ended
by a bell)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prayers of the people</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> followed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our Father</b>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All shall be well</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And all shall be well</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And all manner of things shall be well.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Closing: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(spoken together)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God, my friend,</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
offer You each moment of this day;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whatever
comes – the unexpected challenges,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Diversions from my plans,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The need-filled glance,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The expectations and complaints,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The being taken for granted,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The slights and sleights-of-hand.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’d
be grateful if You could keep me aware of my pesky habits…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And,
between us, perhaps we can enliven the spirits of those I live and work with…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whatever
else befalls,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> I trust we can cope with it. Amen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(A
Lenten Prayer of Dedication)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Namaste.</span></b></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-62964674023797772542012-02-10T09:34:00.000-07:002012-02-10T09:34:06.785-07:00Fire & Grace Contemplative WorshipSorry folks, I was so busy yesterday with Occupy stuff, I forgot to post the service. I hope your day was wonderful, I am posting the service now in case you wish to spend some quiet time today... (hugs)<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fire &
Grace Contemplative Prayer Service</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Living Spirit United Church – February 9, 2012</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Welcome </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Opening
Reading<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(spoken together)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Is there anyone among you who,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if your child asks for a fish, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or if the child asks for an egg, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">will give a scorpion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you then, who are evil, know how </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to give good gifts to your children,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">how much more will the heavenly Father</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">give the Holy spirit to those who ask him!”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(Luke 11: 11-13)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">O let me see with the eye of my heart,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That I might
see your face, O my God.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(repeat)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Readings…
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
reading – listen, what word or phrase draws you.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
reading – listen, for an image that relates to your life.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3<sup>rd</sup>
reading – listen, what might God be calling you to?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“When we do get there, we almost wonder how we got
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know we did not do anything
nearly as much as we know we were done unto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are being utterly and warmly held and falling helplessly into a scary
mystery at the very same time – caught between profound desire and the
question, “where is this going to take me?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has been said many times that, after transformation, you seldom have
the feeling you have found anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
feels much more like Someone found you!”<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Namaste.</span></b></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-89981646585892169182012-02-04T18:02:00.001-07:002012-02-04T18:02:50.564-07:00No War On Iran: Calgary Joins International Day of ActionWe had an amazing crowd today for our rally in front of the Consulate General of the United States in Calgary. Trying to get our message out to the warmongers who say we *must* go to war on Iran. I don't believe war is ever a solution. I think there are ways to bring peace in a peaceful manner and it's time our governments stopped putting money and oil ahead of human rights for all people around the globe.<br />
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The more than 200 leaflets we handed out contained a quiz on Iran and the answers were found on the back. <br />
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How well can you do on these questions? Please give it a try... <br />
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<li>What country in the Middle East refuses to confirm or deny that it has a nuclear weapons program and refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty </li>
<li>What country agreed to be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and has repeatedly opened up its country to IAEA inspectors?</li>
<li>Which country’s prime minister has been attempting to persuade members of his cabinet to make a pre-emptive military strike against a neighboring country? </li>
<li>True or False:<br />“The International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. have provided evidence that Iran is attempting to obtain nuclear weapons.” </li>
<li>The IAEA severely criticized which country for falsifying information on Iraq and Iran’s nuclear programs? </li>
<li>According to the UN Charter and Nuremberg Tribunal, what is the gravest war crime of all? </li>
<li>Which is the one country on the planet which has actually used nuclear weapons against a civilian population? </li>
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and The answers... <ol>
<li>Israel, Pakistan and India have not signed the treaty. Israel does not publicly admit it has nuclear weapons, although the fact that it does is common knowledge. Iran has signed thetreaty and does not have a nuclear weapons program.</li>
<li>Iran</li>
<li>Israel</li>
<li>False – neither have provided any evidence that Iranis attempting to obtain nuclear weapons.</li>
<li>United States</li>
<li>Attacking a country which hasn’t attacked you. This is called a war of aggression, which “contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”</li>
<li>The United States, which bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski during WWII, killing between150,000–246,000 people within just the first 4 months, halfwithin the first 24 hours.</li>
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How did you answer these questions?<br />How do you think many Americans or Canadians would answer these questions? In addition to sanctions, there have been targeted assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and a U.S. surveillance drone was discovered in violation of Iranian sovereignty and airspace.<br />Let’s be clear, no matter what you think about the Iranian government;<br />the real aggressor in the Middle East is Israel and the United States.<br />Now that you know, what will you do?<br />NO war! NO sanctions!<br />NO intervention!<br />NO assassinations!<br />Sources for this information and ways to take action at: <a href="http://www.worldcantwait.net/" target="_blank">worldcantwait.net </a><br />
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(hugs) to everyone...<br />
later man, jan<br />
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<span id="goog_1836186837"></span><span id="goog_1836186838"></span>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-24762631702288634482012-01-26T14:27:00.000-07:002012-01-26T14:30:08.043-07:00Fire & Grace Contemplative Service<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">with beams of your Love. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let all within that separate us beware, </span></b></div>
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Beloved.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(from
Psalm 68 trans Nan C. Merrill)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Changeless and calm, deep mystery,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ever more deeply, rooted in me.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (repeat)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3<sup>rd</sup>
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for a moment I sense the space expand beyond all limits. It is only within this space, a vast space
which the ordinary “I” can’t reach, that the thinking becomes silent. Then I no longer seek an answer, and in
giving my entire attention, I enter the unknown. I do not seek; I perceive. I do not have to seek the good; the attention
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process of meditation”<b> </b>(Jeanne De Salzman, The Reality of Being)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Changeless and calm, deep mystery,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ever more deeply, rooted in me.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Rejoice, rejoice in the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Closing: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(spoken together)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">“I
have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so
near to me as God. God is nearer to me
than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of
God.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(Meister Eckhart)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Namaste.</span></b></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-56409177123636785012012-01-11T22:08:00.002-07:002012-01-11T22:08:43.363-07:00Fire & Grace Contemplative Worship<!--[if !mso]>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Opening
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“God
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">God
is all that has happened, is happening, and will ever happen; </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">and all that
didn’t, hasn’t and won’t ever happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">God
is everything and it’s opposite.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Spirit of Truth, enter my mind,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Soul of Wisdom, enter my heart.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(repeat) </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Readings…
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
reading – listen, for an image that relates to your life.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3<sup>rd</sup>
reading – listen, what might God be calling you to?</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We are fashioned in the image and likeness of God the way a
wave is fashioned in the image and likeness of an ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The more we focus on the wave aspect of ourselves the more
we play God:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seeking to control our
lives by controlling the lives of everyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more we play God the less godly we become
and the more damage we do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The more we focus on the oceanic aspect of ourselves, the
more we are surrendered to God: we stop playing God, and realize that God is
playing us; we discover that we are vehicles for creativity and freedom. “</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Rabbi Rami Shapiro)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chant:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Spirit of Truth, enter my mind,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Soul of Wisdom, enter my heart.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(repeat) </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Silent Meditation </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(15-20 minutes ended
by a bell)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prayers of the people</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> followed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our Father</b>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chant:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jesus said… What are you looking for?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The kingdom of God is within you and outside of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This is my very body, this is my blood.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">*I am here, I am with you, I am He…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I am here, I am with you, I am He…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b></div>
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repeat entire chant)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Closing
Prayer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(spoken
together)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“My
God, the soul you place within me is pure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span> </span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">And because it is pure I am free to live today differently than
yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it is free, I am free
to live today without the burden of past habits, past fears, past mistakes, and
past failures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">I am free to look at my
past without repeating it; to examine it for lessons to be learned and amends
to be made; and to draw from it what guidance I can to live today
differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">My God, may I use today’s
gift of freedom to further my capacity to serve You by serving Your creation
with justice, compassion and humility.”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Rabbi Rami Shapiro)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Namaste.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-37949106271821324882011-12-28T11:01:00.000-07:002011-12-29T12:13:28.160-07:00Three Little Words... for the poor...Christmas Eve saw us bustling around preparing dinner for the whole family. As I walked from the kitchen to the dining room, my 8 year old granddaughter came towards me holding her two hands cupped together and reaching toward me... and she said "for the poor".<br />
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Looking into her hands I saw a huge pile of loose change. Toonies and loonies, nickels and pennies. I was dumfounded. I looked into my son's eyes and he said "for some reason she thinks you look after poor people and she wants to help".<br />
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We sat on the couch to talk. I asked where this money came from... it was her allowance. She didn't need it and wanted me to give it away. Shivers.<br />
<br />
When the coins were counted they came to $24 and change. My mind jumped... Almost enough for a <a href="http://www.kiva.org/" target="_blank">Kiva loan.</a> But she's so young. So here was a chance for a lesson on how to help people when you don't have very much yourself.<br />
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We used the analogy of a lemonade stand and how you buy the lemonade to make and sell. We bought ingredients for $1 borrowed from mom and then made the lemonade and sold it to end up with $2 in our pocket. We then paid back the $1 we borrowed from mom and we had $1 left for ourself. I then showed her this year's Kiva calendar. All the lovely photos of Francoise and her store in Rwanda and Vicelino and his pigs in Costa Rica. She thought this was a wonderful idea.<br />
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More conversation convinced her that she didn't have to give it all away. She decided to keep $10 for herself and give away the rest. Well... I got down my Kiva piggybank and said that I was sure there was enough saved in here to add to her $14 for us to be able to do a $25 loan.<br />
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Dad assigned her one of his email addresses and I 'allowed' her to 'give' me the money to send to her new Kiva account. I sent her a gift certificate and then she spent time with Dad on the Kiva.org website choosing who would receive the loan of her money. <span class="businessName">She chose to help <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/goog_1296516085">Diana Yadira</a></span><a href="http://www.kiva.org/lend/374669" target="_blank"> in Mexico</a> <span class="loanUse">to buy used clothes to sell.</span><br />
<span class="loanUse"> </span><br />
<span class="loanUse"></span><br />
<span class="loanUse">In April, the first repayment email should arrive in Andrea's inbox. I can't wait for the joy of that day.</span><br />
<span class="loanUse"><br /></span><br />
<span class="loanUse">later man, jan</span><br />
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<br />janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-47350869647169635582011-12-22T11:14:00.000-07:002011-12-22T11:14:34.406-07:00Fire & Grace December 22, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fire &
Grace Contemplative Prayer Service</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Living Spirit United Church – December 22, 2011 - 9:30am</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Welcome </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Opening Reading<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(spoken
together)</span></h2>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the
beginning was the Word, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
the Word was with God, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He was with God
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(John
1:1-2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">O God, we call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O God, we call.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">From deep inside we yearn;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">From deep inside we
yearn</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">From deep inside we
yearn, for You</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">VU #411</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
(repeat)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Readings…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(Isaiah
7:14)<span> </span>"Therefore the Lord Himself
will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and
shall call His name Immanuel. <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">-------------</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">(Isaiah
9:6)<span> </span>For to us a child is born, to us a
son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.<span> </span>And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.<span> </span></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">-------------</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">(</span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaiah 25: 9)<i><span> </span></i></span><em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
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might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bind my
head and my heart in You, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Loving Father.
Help us to remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the
angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Close the door of hate and open the door of
love all over the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let kindness
come with every gift and good desires with every greeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ
brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May the Christmas morning make us happy to be
thy children, and the Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful
thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’ sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Robert Louis
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him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In
him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in
the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(John 1:3-5)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> * * * * * *</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">We missed your presence this morning and hope these words will help you as we prepare for the last days of Advent. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">(hugs)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">later man, jan </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-26524018156821374922011-12-20T14:47:00.000-07:002011-12-20T14:47:18.028-07:00A Most Wonderful Christmas Card<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tareto Maa is a grassroots organization that <b>I have admired and supported since they began</b>. Tareto Maa runs a shelter in Kenya for girls at risk of Female Genital
Mutilation and early enforced marriage. The progress they have achieved is amazing. However, each year sees more and more girls learning of a safe refuge and so the need grows. <br />
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<a href="https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/protect-70-girls-from-genital-mutilation-in-kenya/" target="_blank">We are currently taking part in a fund raising competition</a> The challenge runs from now
until December 31, 2011 (2359 hrs EST).<br />
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You can help us win
some extra funds for the project by <b>just sharing the project page on
facebook by hitting its "share" button on Global Giving</b> (right below
"donate" on the right side of the page). The 5 projects who have raised
at the end at least $2,000 from at least 25 different people and have
shared their project page through this way the most on facebook will win
an extra bonus of $300.<br />
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In addition, the project with the
greatest number of unique donors at the end will be awarded a bonus of
$2,000. Currently we are this project, yay... and if we stay like this, that would be just fantastic! Because an
extra bonus of $2,000 would mean that we could build another urgently
needed dormitory for the girls.<br />
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If you feel you could help with even a small donation then the best day would be today, Wed, 14 Dec. This day will be "Bonus Day" on Global Giving. This means that
all online, unique donations will be matched at 15% till the total matching grant of
$3000 is used up.<br />
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The story is btw - of course - also Kiva related as we have <a href="http://www.kiva.org/team/tareto_maa" target="_blank">a Kiva lending team</a> that supports the project.<br />
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later man, jan<br />
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My email has gone to Bill Bruce as my personal response to this...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dear Mr Bruce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I am not an Occupier, however
I am a member of the Occupy Movement here in Calgary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I was in attendance at the
Occupy Calgary General Assembly held on November 19<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I actually had my photo in the Calgary
Herald, sad and old as I looked that day).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I heard the reading of the offer and I heard one person state this paper
should be burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard another
opinion voicing the proposal to form a working group to respond to this offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my knowledge this working group was operating
in good faith that the city offer was still on the table when by-laws came
around removing tents on November 21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think that move on the City’s part destroyed much of the faith Occupy Calgary
supporters have tried to retain when thinking of the City of Calgary as a
partner in democracy and an advocate of the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As a member of Women in Black,
who stand vigil for peace twice a month at the Five Famous Statues, we have met
many of the Occupiers and actually had them help us hold our banners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people camped at Olympic Plaza have many
times stated their willingness to work with other people using the park and I
have seen many friendly interactions happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it is unreasonable to expect this willingness to continue if it
means to actually move the tents which are insulated for the winter conditions.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the tents are situated in a good
location to allow all citizens to use the park effectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I think it would be wonderful
to have Occupy Calgary and the City of Calgary representatives sit down to
negotiate this issue sensibly and without waving papers and overreactions of
by-law officers and City Police Services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it would be wonderful if the City assisted the Occupiers to find
a reasonable way to continue to keep their message in front and center of the
public eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until this happens I support
the camp as it exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jan Bacon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Resident in the riding of Calgary
Centre<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-36654770100597777442011-12-02T23:01:00.001-07:002011-12-02T23:09:09.494-07:00Hugs for Occupy's (not a real) Lawyer ...<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a data-hovercardx="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=902960116" href="http://www.facebook.com/benijaunah">Ben Christensen</a> you did a wonderful job today... and I'm sharing your statement with all 3 of my followers...</span></div>
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"Today we make history....<br /> <br />
We are the people who wish to have a voice, we are not the doctors, the
lawyers,the aristocrats, or the ceo's: We are the people who for years
have lined the pockets of the people above, the ones who serve them
coffee...do their laundry....clean their houses. <br /> <br /> We are the
silent afraid to speak and the oppressed afraid to stand. We are
unnoticed in the presence of the politicians and forced into fear by the
ones we trust to protect us and our freedoms! <br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br />
We come and go day in and day out we punch the clock in the morning and
are those who lock up at night while the shopowners at home with their
family. <br /> <br /> Who are we? Why are we here? What is our purpose?
Questions we have been told we should ask ourselves if only to create
doubt about our true selves. You can tread on us, kick us while we're
down...but remember it is human nature to tolerate only so much before:
WE WILL TAKE NO MORE!!! <br /> <br /> That time is here, we are tired we
don't wish to stand by and allow ourselves any further to be walked on,
spit on, or to sit back and kiss the proverbial ass of those who live
better than us as they profit from our efforts.<br /> <br /> Accountability: WE WANT YOU TO START HAVING SOME!!!<br /> <br />
Who are we? We are tired, we are angry, we are ready to take a stand as
we reach the breaking point WE ARE OCCUPY AND WE NEVER GIVE UP!!!"</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">thanks Ben, for not today frighten you...</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">thanks for wearing burgundy, my favourite colour...</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">thanks for your time, energy, patience and most of all your confidence...</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">(hugs) all round with all my family at Occupy Calgary...</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;">later man, jan</span></span></div>
</span></span></h6>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-20949748908301462922011-11-26T09:15:00.001-07:002011-11-26T09:21:48.908-07:00Fire & Grace Contemplative Service November 24th<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(I was so busy protesting Stephen Harper's Crime Bill I forgot to post Thursdays service. (hugs)</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fire &
Grace Contemplative Prayer Service</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Living Spirit United Church – November 24, 2011</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Welcome </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Opening
Reading </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(spoken together)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">O my Beloved, You have searched me</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and known me!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You know when I sit down and </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when I rise up;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You discern my innermost thoughts.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You find me on the journey and </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">guide my steps;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You know my strengths and </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my weaknesses.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Even before words rise up in prayer, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lo, You have already heard </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my heart call.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You encompass me with love where’er </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I go,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And your strength is my shield.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Such sensitivity is too wonderful for me;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is high; boundless gratitude </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is my soul’s response.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(from Psalm 139
trans Nan C. Merrill)</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chant: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Spirit of Truth, enter my mind,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Soul of Wisdom, enter my heart.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Readings…
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1<sup>st</sup>
reading – listen, what word or phrase draws you.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2<sup>nd</sup>
reading – listen, for an image that relates to your life.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3<sup>rd</sup>
reading – listen, what might God be calling you to?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">“As our idea of God expands, there is no word, no
way, no gesture that can articulate it anymore.
Hence, we fall into silence, the place we should have been in the first
place…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">Through contemplative prayer, we are moving into a
realm of reality that influences the past and the future perhaps more than
anything else we could do.”<b> </b>(Fr Thomas Keating)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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near to me as God. God is nearer to me
than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of
God.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";">(Meister Eckhart)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b></div>
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</div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-60068194081599936142011-11-25T07:45:00.001-07:002011-11-25T08:06:09.670-07:00Protest the Crime Bill C-10 Now!!!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If you have still to find out about this ugly bill C-10 (or S-10 in the Senate) that is going to be pushed through with very little public input while you are going about your Christmas shopping... please do some research... for instance... </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You probably don't want to read all 152 pages <a href="http://parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=5272291" target="_blank">but they are available to the public</a>. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My own United Church has grave concerns regarding the outcome for Canadians if this bill is passed and have issued a <a href="http://www.united-church.ca/communications/news/releases/111124" target="_blank">press release and sent their letter to Prime Minister Harper.</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Urban Health Initiative in BC is all about treatment and safety and help for people with addictions ... they have been complaining <a href="http://uhri.cfenet.ubc.ca/content/view/88" target="_blank">since this letter sent last February</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Canadian Bar Association has </span>presented a 100-page submission to Parliament, but it <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/health/association+blasts+tough+crime+bill/5731568/story.html#ixzz1ejICe0OD" target="_blank">has distilled that brief into a list of 10 key criticisms of C-10:</a><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Each one of us, however, can make our voices heard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A new friend of mine shared with me her letter to Prime Minister Harper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I am now sharing it with you anonymously because I didn't ask her permission to use her name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">later man, jan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dear
Mr. Harper,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have
never been politically active, but this crime bill is so wrong-headed and
destructive that I felt I had to do something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Too
many people think this is all about murderers and child molesters, but most
people who run afoul of the law are ordinary, decent people like you and
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all fallible human beings, we
all make mistakes, and some of these mistakes get us into trouble with the
law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This does not make us monsters,
beyond redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost all of us
deserve a second chance, and most of us will go on to lead productive lives as
good citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why take away that
chance?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will cost everyone more in
the long run, and not just financially.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Two
points I particularly take issue with are mandatory minimum sentences, and the
elimination of pardons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Firstly, the
mandatory minimum sentences have been tried elsewhere and failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why expect them to work magic here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are already too many people in prison
for the wrong reasons, people who need treatment not punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prison will not make them better citizens,
rather the opposite is more likely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As to
the elimination of pardons, do you have any idea how difficult it is to get a
job with a criminal record?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people
with records are not monsters, and given the chance will become hard-working,
productive members of society, even taxpayers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With a record, many will languish and be a drain on the system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The economic cost is huge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who want to work and are qualified
should be encouraged, not shut out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of
society would benefit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Revenge
is not justice, it is simply revenge, and has no place in a modern civilized
society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Respectfully
yours,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(name
removed as I am posting this without her permission)</span></div>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-54648161425835928862011-11-24T22:12:00.001-07:002011-11-24T23:03:41.789-07:00Tried to serve a petition to Prime Minister Harper's office today...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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security guy, Marty. He didn't appear to have ever met Mr Harper and certainly hasn't seen him visit the
office in 7 years. </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"></span><br />
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We were joined by more friends from <a href="http://occupiedcalgaryfreepress.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Occupy Calgary </a>and then from the 420
group here in town. Some of my Facebook friends arrived and
conversations were animated.<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> Arran, from Occupy Calgary gave a truly awesome credible interview to
CTV, did anyone see him on the news? Sorry I didn't get your photo Arran, perhaps Geoff will have one I can edit in here. Anyway, that was all the media who visited but I didn't advertise to the media and we did have
the company of 3 police vans and one cruiser car circling the parking lot at one point. </span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Karen and I went up the elevator
to the office on the second floor. Locked. No answer to the bell. No answer to pounding
on the door. I called out that I had a petition to deliver, but no luck.
We went back outside and phoned the office only to recieve the answering
machine, so I left a message saying what I wanted and for them to please phone me with a convenient time. It was quite obvious that Prime Minister Harper has no
intention of opening himself up to the concerns of his constituents.</span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"></span><br />
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had between 4 and 6 people at any given time. We had some very good conversations with people passing by and a
few confrontations that provided good experience to all of us. </span></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">So what were we protesting, you say? Today was the day Prime Minister Harper was to launch his tough-on-crime agenda. I think our criminal justice system is by no means perfec, but this omnibus crime bill will send us back to a 19th century punishment model. The cost will be colossal, and I think that money would be much better used in prevention rather than picking up minor offenders and putting them in prison and throwing away the key. </span></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I was there because my church, the United Church of Canada has strong reservations about Mr Harper's Omnibus Crime Bill C-10. Today, I received this press release announcing the United Church's letter to Prime Minister Harper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">United Church Urges
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Toronto:
In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, The United Church of Canada has
urged the government “to reconsider the provisions of Bill C-10 dealing with
the imposition of minimum sentences; and to separate the provisions of the
omnibus bill to allow for consideration of the potential impacts of its
component parts.”</span></div>
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church’s letter notes its appreciation for improvements to certain aspects of
the criminal legislation but also expresses grave concern with some parts of
the bill—particularly its impact on Canada’s Aboriginal peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The
Government of Canada shares culpability with The United Church of Canada and
other historic mission churches for the legacy of residential schools and the
lasting effects this legacy continues to have on Canada’s Aboriginal peoples,”
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the lasting and damaging impact of the legacy of Canada’s residential schools
lives on in the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in our
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concerns raised by other organizations about the proposed legislation, the
United Church’s letter highlights curtailing conditional sentencing and
imposing mandatory minimum sentences as two aspects of Bill C-10 that would
have a particularly negative impact on Aboriginal offenders.</span></div>
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concludes its letter by asking the prime minister to “please drop your
arbitrary 100-day deadline to pass this omnibus bill, and agree to break it
into its component parts so that each may be considered on its own merits.”</span></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">later man, jan (hugs) </span>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-24204076392588029522011-11-19T17:46:00.001-07:002011-11-19T17:56:59.584-07:00Gates Yardley is an orator...<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gates Yardley is an orator... I just shook his hand today :) </span></span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I must share all of his words and almost printed this whole thing in bold because he feels so strongly. </span></span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I
had to get this off my chest: Today it is inescapable that one realize
we live in a global environment. Every facet of social consequence
operates on a global scale. Global politics, global economics, global
trade, global communication, and the list goes on. The happenings of one
nation directly link to the happenings of the next and of others around
the world. If there is a flood in thailand, countries all over the
world find themselves short of hard drives for computers. After the
Nuclear crisis in Japan we find ourselves short of other commodities
like ipad and car parts. It becomes apparent that finances are globally
interlinked when we look at the scale of currency and debt crises across
europe and the rest of the world that have followed the american
meltdown. On CBC Radio the other day I heard a report about gold mines
in South Africa. In parts of South Africa there are very very large gold
mines owned by multinational corporations. The South African people
work in these mines under terrible conditions, and can barely survive.
This is the only option for survival for these people. Those who work in
the mines are considered lucky, the rest die in poverty. There are
750,000 cases of tuberculosis reported each year in this region. In
South Africa, tuberculosis is a deadly disease. The people contract it
from inhaling tiny particles of silicate in the mines, which they are
not protected from. Forget HIV/AIDS, forget hunger, forget the other
thousand reasons that African People die from by the thousands, millions
year after year, decade after decade. This one number alone is
staggering. This is all happening at a time when gold is in highest
demand, it's selling for more than it ever has before, a time where
western currencies are being sold off in return for gold and other real
assets. People are buying gold to protect their wealth which is
threatened by the currencies of many nations losing value at something
more than historical norms. I argue that tremendous wealth of people in
the west is directly and inextricably linked to tremendous poverty of
people in other places, I contend that expendable wealth invested in
gold is directly linked to this giant health and humanitarian crisis in
South Africa. Just like our demonstration at Olympic plaza here in
Calgary is one of thousands worldwide, this issue is but a a single
thread in a complex interlinked, and interdependent tapestry of
thousands of humanitarian and environmental issues facing our
civilization today. In thousands of cities worldwide demonstrations are
being made, civil unrest is growing because people recognize the
magnitude of these injustices and inequalities among human beings, among
members of our human family. People are recognizing that super wealth
and super poverty, like everything else now operate on a global scale,
and that these two things are dependent on and perpetuate eachother.
Today in the world there are 1 Billion people that don't have enough to
eat. And as of 2008 there were 10 Million people classified as US dollar
millionaires. Even in the united states, poverty joblessness and
homelessness are reaching critical levels. And in a world of finite
resources, I argue that it is plainly unjust that some people can have
so much while so many others suffer, I personally believe that it's
unjust, unfair, and unethical for someone to have any more than he needs
while another goes hungry, goes cold, or goes sick. I feel like if I
don't work for these people and if I don't buy from these people, I am
left without job prospects, I am left without a house, or a car, or gas.
I find it cruel that my participation in these injustices is assumed
and required so that I can find success in the world today. In thousands
of cities worldwide demonstrations are being made, civil unrest is
growing because people recognize the magnitude of these injustices and
inequalities among human beings, among members of our human family.
People are recognizing that super wealth and super poverty, like
everything else now operate on a global scale, and that these two things
are dependent on and perpetuate eachother.</span></span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> When I was a kid my
mother always told me that I can never blame circumstances for the way I
feel, and that I can never be filled with depression or hatred or
darkness and say 'the world made me this way.' She taught me to take
ownership of my feelings and my life. Well for a long time I have felt a
deep, crippling darkness in my heart in recent weeks it has gotten
deeper and deeper, I started to feel I was drowning, it kept growing in
intensity. And I hung on to my mothers wisdom and I searched, and I
grasped for answers within myself, within my life. I was so lost knowing
that with my BIG heart, and with my GREAT mind, and with all my
wonderful intentions, and all my tireless will to help others, and my
efforts to improve the world in what small way I can I was still plagued
by this darkness. I realized today that the darkness in my heart is the
very darkness of the world, it is the recognition of the suffering of
others all over the world, and on a massive scale. With all of our
advancements and achievements in knowledge, science, and technology it
is uncanny that human beings still suffer the way they do. When I
realized this I was in the car, and I wept. I wept for the world, and I
wept uncontrollably. I stopped the car and drafted this message for the
world. The world did make me feel this way, but my mother was still
right, because beyond that, together as a people we created this world,
we all participate, and we need to take ownership now. We need to set
things right.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I demand immediate, mandatory, global,
systematic, redistribution of resources that I KNOW is possible to such a
degree that every man, woman, and child, brothers and sisters of mine
on this planet are ensured real and enduring access to the BASIC
necessities of a good life, PROPER food, PROPER shelter, PROPER health
care, PROPER education and PROPER access to culture and fine arts. I may
not have camped at Olympic plaza, but I believe in those protesters,
and in all the others around the world. I stand up for them, and I stand
with them, and I will not be satisfied until these conditions are
required by international law, just as they have been required by the
universal laws of humanity and ethics and decency for all time. I
submit that it is criminal to have more than you need while others
suffer for want and lack.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We Support Occupy Calgary, later man, jan</span></span></span></h6>janhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-34544610214445427222011-11-18T15:17:00.001-07:002011-11-18T15:23:55.412-07:00Frustration setting in...Why oh why do they talk about tents and the damaging of bits of grass?<br />
I think it's because they all live in fear. <br />
Fear that Occupy the World just might be right!<br />
Fear that they know deep in their hearts that so much is wrong with our society.<br />
Or just plain fear that they have been found out and may have their toys taken away? <br />
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Some days I just get frustrated at the mainstream media. <br />
What happened to honest investigative reporting? <br />
What happened to listening to both sides.<br />
I think the CBC has been the fairest however even there I've seen them picking and choosing who and what to show in their news.<br />
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so... when I get frustrated...<br />
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I have this link on my toolbar...<br />
I click it and just say <a href="http://nooooooooooooooo.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">NO</span>OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</a><br />
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Try it, you might like it.<br />
later man, janjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13482249450902738976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34885786.post-81164429427933763002011-11-12T15:47:00.001-07:002011-11-12T22:40:31.937-07:00Remembrance Day was busy...I met a couple of friends downtown by City Hall and we began the day by checking in and having conversations with the nice folks at <a href="http://occupiedcalgaryfreepress.wordpress.com/">Occupy Calgary in Olympic Plaza.</a>
We then gathered at 12 noon for our <a href="http://www.womeninblack.org.uk/Internationally.htm">Women in Black vigil</a> that happens every 2nd and 4th Friday of each month by the <a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMXHN">Statues of the Five Famous Women</a>.
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... then a few of us left the vigil circle to join the Occupy Calgary Remembrance Meditation held in the beautiful, but cold Olympic Plaza amphitheatre.
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Our final Remembrance service was at the other end of downtown. We took a quick C-Train ride to the <a href="http://calgarypeacepole.org/index.html">Calgary Community Peace Pole</a> for the innovative Remembrance Day sponsored by the <a href="http://www.ploughsharescalgary.ca/">Project Ploughshares organization</a>. The highlight of this followed candlelighting, wreath laying and chanting. I am sorry I didn't get a photo of the circle dance formed around the Peace Pole. It was one of the most moving experiences I have had the fortune to be part of.
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Founded in 1976, Project Ploughshares is the peace centre of The Canadian Council of Churches, mandated to work with churches, government, and civil society, in Canada and abroad, to advance policies and actions that prevent war and armed violence and build peace. Project Ploughshares carries out its mandate by undertaking resarch, policy development, and public engagement to:
-prohibit the use, possession, and manufacture of nuclear weapons;
-prevent the weaponization of space;
-control the supply and reduce the demand for weapons;
-reduce the resort to military force; and
-build sustainable peace.<br />
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(hugs all round)<br />
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