{PBJFlorida} Peace- Hope

This is what we are about:

We plant seeds that one day will grow

We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development

We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that

This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.

It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,

An opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the

Master builder and the worker

We are workers, not master builders

Ministers, not messiahs.

We are prophets  of a future not our own.

Oscar Romero

Archbishop -  Guatemala

Assassinated by School of America graduates in 1998

"When fear dictates what we say and do, democracy itself is imperiled. The antidote to such paralysis is hope: defiant, resilient, persistent hope, no matter what the odds may be."

– Paul Rogat Loeb

the changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience.  Tolstoy  (confessions?)

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When pain is a hated companion

When burning light is constant

When noise does not stop

When there is no sleep

When your hands go numb from cords

When you are hoarse from screaming

There are lawyers committed to justice

and survivors who have never forgotten

how to remember

These who, being free, can speak

seeking to ease the pain, dim the lights,

silence the noise, listen to your brokenness

and end it

In an America and a world where so many

are complicit by silence,

Where the unspeakable has become state policy

We honor those who keep the long watch,

who set at liberty those who were bound

and break the policies that break our hearts

–September 28, 2007

(I do not remember where this came from)

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· Martin Luther King:

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

Our lives begin and end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Freedom is never given……………………it must be demanded by the oppressed

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