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Sometimes humor is the only remedy to keep the deep sadness I feel from turning into despair. Pope Francis has become a sign of hope and joy but I still see around me persons talking the talk of our Christian faith but not walking the walk. Marquette still teaches killing and the Catholic Archdiocese is still taking the 1.1 million it received from closing down Churches in the poorest and most segregated part of the city and putting it into an endowment fund rather than a Sustainable Fund for Works of Mercy. Speaking “truth to power” can have its low points when you do not think the ‘powers to be’ are listening. A bit of humor, like this cartoon on the side and enlarged below, can save the day.
Garden work can do the same. With the help of my veteran friend Dan we got some work in the fall garden done today. Dan is become very good at making worm enriched compost into worm castings.
Faith Sharing, be it with our Tuesday morning group or our Faith In Recovery group, can also, like humor and gardening stay off despair. There are other ways to do this, children in our lives, prayer and silence but the important thing is that we use what we got to keep Hope alive.
Tomorrow I am going to a conference at Marquette where leaders of eight different religious will talk about nonviolence in their faith tradition. I am taking some leaflets along to pass out about Marquette and ROTC are Incompatible just for some release from all this good talk.
Opportunities to keep home alive are everywhere on every day, if we can just see, hear, touch them.
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