World Peace Gong in Gandhi
Smriti, The Place of Mahatma
Gandhi’s Martyrdom St. Paul dealing with conflicts in the early followers of the Way wrote: “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)
Paraphrasing this for politics today in the USA I write: “There is no longer Democrat or Republican, there is no longer black or white, and there is no longer poor or rich; for all of you are one as Americans and citizens of the world.”
Or so I wish. This thought came to me today as I was criticized and ignored for pointing out how our peace liberal congresswoman had accepted an expensive junket from the pro-Jewish lobby group, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC}, although she says she is pro-Palestinian. Also today I received from a peace activist an email about a protest on a nearby Republican representative was limiting who could attend his community gatherings. I thought at least the Republican representative is at home talking with some of his people why the Democrat is off on a paid vacation from a lobby group.
Or so I wish. Today I took an elderly window friend to a food pantry at a small church so she can get her monthly box of food for low income persons. The pantry was crowed and there was a long line. I had dropped my friend off while I was parking the car. The line was up the stairs of a church hall. Other persons in the line let my friend, who walks with a cane, move near the front of the line at the bottom of the stairs. When I got to her I explained my moving along side her by saying I was just her driver carrying the bag. This brought some humor to the group since in this culture ‘carrying the bag’ has other connotations. My friend saw some of her neighbors in the food pantry since she lives in a neighborhood of poverty on the North Side of Milwaukee.
Or so I wish. Today I did a little research of how the Catholic Church has abandoned the north side neighborhoods as they became predominately African American and poor.
While liberals and conservatives argue politics, while liberal peace persons and pro war persons talk and talk, while the rich get richer by the poor getting poorer; while people, young and old, go hungry, while education is being cut in the central city schools, while the unemployment rate for young adult African Americans is over 50% and while the veterans walk the streets homeless I cry out.
I cry out to my liberal and conservative friends: “We are one; we are equal in our human dignity; let us stop talking and working together for the common good.” I must cry this out but am just a voice crying in the wilderness. I only wish.
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St. Paul dealing with conflicts in the early followers of the Way wrote: “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)
Paraphrasing this for politics today in the USA I write: : “There is no longer Democrat or Republican, there is no longer black or white, and there is no longer poor or rich; for all of you are one as Americans and citizens of the world.”
Or so I wish. This thought came to me today as I was criticized and ignored for pointing out how our peace liberal congresswoman had accepted an expensive junket from the pro-Jewish lobby group, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC} although she says she is pro-Palestinian. Also today I received from a peace activist an email about a protest on a nearby Republican representative was limiting who could attend his community gatherings. I thought at least the Republican representative is at home talking with some of his people why the Democrat is off on a paid vacation from a lobby group.
Or so I wish. Today I took an elderly window friend to a food pantry so she can get her monthly box of food for low income persons. The pantry was crowed and there was a long line. I had dropped my friend off while I was parking the car. The line was up the stairs of a church hall. Other persons in the line let my friend, who walks with a cane, move near the front of the line at the bottom of the stairs. When I got to her I explained my moving along side her by saying I was just her driver carrying the bag. This brought some humor to the group since in this culture ‘carrying the bag’ has other connotations. My friend saw some of her neighbors in the food pantry since she lives in a neighborhood of poverty on the North Side of Milwaukee.
Or so I wish. Today I did a little research of how the Catholic Church has abandoned the north side neighborhoods as they became predominately African American and poor.
While liberals and conservatives argue politics, while liberal peace persons and pro war persons talk and talk, while the rich get richer by the poor getting poorer; while people, young and old, go hungry, while education is being cut in the central city schools, while the unemployment rate for young adult African Americans is over 50% and while the veterans walk the streets homeless I cry out.
I cry out to my liberal and conservative friends: “We are one; we are equal in our human dignity; let us stop talking and working together for the common good.” I must cry this out but am just a voice crying in the wilderness. I only wish.
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