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Imagine if you said you loved dogs, so you decided to devote your life to studying them. You could set out to read every book ever written about dogs. You could study their DNA under microscopes and analyze all sorts of minute details about canine lifespans. You could take courses on doggie nutrition and seminars on puppy behavior.

Blood is typically something we wash off, not something we wash with. As an organic substance, we want to limit our contact with blood so that any risk of infection is minimized. When we prepare meat, the amount of time we spend cooking is determined by how long it takes to cook away the blood. In the medical world, professionals are particularly careful to wear protective gloves whenever they come in contact with blood. In our culture, blood is almost always something to be avoided.

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Certainly we feel for people who are trapped in such situations. But is the problem really their total reliance upon another, or is it WHO they have become reliant upon? In scripture we are told that we CANNOT do it all on our own- that we must give up our pride and humbly place our TOTAL trust in God. We must become reliant- DEPENDENT- upon Him!

My sweet wife loves the theatre, particularly the big musicals. From Memphis to Broadway, she would sit through every live performance if money and time would allow. What is the appeal? She loves the music, the choreography, and the intricate sets. In short, she loves it all. Me? I love the ending.

But Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan to remind us of what he means by neighbor in the broadest sense of the term. In the story, on a dangerous Jericho road where thieves and robbers hung out, a person is thrown to the side of the road, beaten, battered, and left for dead. Two church people come along, a priest and a religious man, both do nothing except to avoid crossing over to the other side of the street that hurting man, both of them Jewish from the same race and culture. But the person who is the most despised member of another race, a Samaritan, comes along, not only tends to the wounded person, but pays for his ongoing medical care. So Jesus defines the one who shows love and care for the beaten and battered and bruised person as the true neighbor. Jesus is reminding us this morning that our neighbor is everyone. And we should act as neighbor to everyone, especially those left, beaten and battered on the Jericho roads of life. Even those outside of our racial and cultural comfort zone. To love my neighbor, I must intentionally get to know and understand my neighbor, not demonize or use my power to harm my neighbor. Not handpick the neighbors who look, think, act, and vote like me, but the ones that God sends. And not use my political power to advocate for laws that make my vulnerable neighbors even more vulnerable.

Dr. King was not just a dreamer. He was a doer. You and I have the same spiritual power that King had. The power that got Jesus up out of the grave is available to you and I when our lives are rooted in Christ. Today, today, what we know is that the same spiritual power brokers who left the man for dead on that Jericho road also left Jesus bruised, beaten and battered for dead at Calvary. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory. Jesus, our sinless savior took the beating our sins deserve and went from the cross to the grave. But on the third day he got up in all power. So you and I could get up, get up free from all of our bigotry. Get up to save our faltering democracy. Get up to help lift every child out of poverty. Get up to overcome white supremacy with the supremacy of love over hate, and get up to become bridge builders of a multiracial democracy where every life has value. And no one has a lack.

Whimsical, fun and full of personality. Hmmmmmmm!! Sounds like someone I know :-) Could the initials be KW? I believe so. I love the bright color! It looks so bubbly and happy. I love how it goes along with all of your other things. Great job!! Who picks the color of the year? Are you on the panel -- you should be. Perhaps you should mention to SW.

Good morning, Karianne!What a lovely and lively room. I'm typically afraid to use big, bold color but you know how to take the fear out of it.I love how beautifully you coordinated all the other accent pieces. What a fun office space this is where every element flows together well. Have a happy day,Lisa

Very pretty! I love the blue and white accents with this color! Your room really makes a statement! I am such a fan of Sherwin William's paint. My entire house is painted in their colors, both in and outside.

I love that colour! I'm a chicken when it comes to painting bold colours in my home though and might stick to accessories. Is this a room in your house? Man I would love to see a 360 video tour of your home!

Only someone as gifted as you could pull off a bold color like this and make it work. Gorgeous! It brings out the colors in the pillow (which I love ... ). On a completely unrelated note, how is it that George Clooney manages to look even better as he ages? SO unfair to us women who try so hard ... ;)

I. Love. This. Color. I love it so much that my kids started complaining that that was the only color I would buy, to wear. But that was SO LAST SUMMER - now that it's the "color of the year," I'm going out and buying MORE! :)

It's a time of joy and a time of giving. We share what we can with others during the holidays and we hope that the goodwill and glad tidings carry through the year and that goes for pet lovers too. Where better to meet up and talk about how you can help out in different ways or, even get some tips from some pretty knowledgeable people and a super special guest about having pets around for the holidays than Must Love Dogs in Grand Haven?

The essence of GLIDE begins and ends with love. Love is the legacy. It is the highest truth, and the foundation on which GLIDE was built. It leads to liberation, justice and freedom. It is radical and revolutionary, rooted in our commitment to persistent struggle. Love is creating community, inviting all to the table, strangers uniting, never giving up, enduring and thriving. Love is the bottom line and the top line, the answer to all things, the medicine. Some have accused me of speaking of love too much, but it will never be enough. Love liberates all of us.

It matters how we treat each other. We must invite all to have a seat at the Wisdom Table. What a power! To shout out, to rejoice and be the voice of the voiceless, the voice of the community, to confront the world and make room for the disenfranchised and marginalized. In moments of triumph and tragedy, injustice and liberation, victory and defeat. The Wisdom Table has served as a catalyst for action and radical change.

It is time for me to evolve, it is time for GLIDE to continue to evolve. We have gone through so much and come out strong, ready to keep building. My beloved and brilliant Janice is gone. Karen has carried the torch for us and ensured our legacy at GLIDE endures.

I was tempted to give this evening's lecture the title "Tales from the Riverbank" in honour of the much-loved and truly awful children's television programme. But it's really poets of the riverbank. Not just a random anthology of English poets who happened to have been associated with the South Bank of the Thames but something of a journey as well into understanding a bit about poetry and poetry's relationship with human stress and human healing.

But of course, poetry is generated by other kinds of borderland experience, other kinds of frontier experience. It's generated by facing love at a certain depth; by facing death and suffering at a certain depth. And in the poems that we're going to hear this evening, those different moments of being stilled or caught up suddenly, not knowing what to say, those are the moments at the heart of the imaginative experience.

And we're going to begin, predictably, with one of the great South Bank poets, a man by the name of William Shakespeare, whose work may be known to some of you. And in the Sonnets, he explores a whole variety of ways in which love and death alike bring us up short and squeeze out of us things to say we didn't know we had to say.

"To hear with eyes" - perhaps Wordsworth looking out over the Thames might have understood what that image was all about, and in his Sonnet he is writing down what he has heard with his eyes and the silence before him. But here Shakespeare is talking about one of those emotional frontier moments: stumbling, stammering in the context of human love that overwhelms, not knowing what to say. And in his Sonnets he explores again and again the way in which love and death interweave.

Love is one of those things which, if you find the words and imagination for it, somehow carries you round or through or over a fear of death. Poetry is one of those things that you invoke to silence some of the terrors that human experience gives you. And so poetry is a kind of immortality, and odd sort of immortality and yet, because it's not confined, not penned in by the losses that time brings, surely it must have something to say that's relevant to a wider perspective where death doesn't just draw all mummeries.

Shakespeare's immodesty in that sense is bearable I suppose, as we read the Sonnets, it doesn't sound like arrogance, simply because the poetry again and again would turn to the sense of brokenness that lies at the heart of it. The brokenness of feelings of betrayal which run right through the Sonnets as they run through so much of his greatest drama. And towards the end of the Sonnets you find that bitter sense of brokenness coming through perhaps more harshly, more sharply, than anywhere else in the sequence when he speaks about how what he loves seems to be dark, ambiguous, empty or hostile. And yet something still needs to be said about it.

Borderland experiences, love and hate, passion and disgust mingling together interwoven so painfully in that Sonnet, as in many others. It's not surprising that Shakespeare looking at himself wonders what it is that, in the human constitution, keeps life alive and trust alive, and something in that sense of self, something which, in Shakespeare's own case has a kind of religious aura around it and yet isn't conventionally a religious, that comes through. Not only in the sense that what he said overcomes goes beyond death that there's something in humanity itself, in the human self, that is not wrapped up and stifled and tidied away by death. 2351a5e196