Lake Chalice. The Loving Room. MoxieLife. I never meant to get into The Voice, but the down on my luck and looking for a chance stories get to me.
Every single time. I was bopping along watching the singers get booted off one after another when I found myself rooting for one of them. He even made it to the final 3. Then, as usual it happened. A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South. Sermons in Stones. Boston Unitarian. Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show. Marilyn Sewell. Reignite. Monkey Mind. The Wonderment. Mourning the death of Nelson Mandela, I am intensely grateful for his perfectly imperfect example of a faithful life.
Like most of us, he struggled with violence as an answer to violence, hate as an answer to hate, and division as an answer to division. But then Mandela change. In that shift to understanding responsibility as peace building, to making dignity for all real by embodying dignity, to supporting processes to bring about reconciliation which is still in process, because we cannot heal a history of hate and violence and be without struggle in a few years -- in that shift, we were given another example of a faithful life, true to himself, his land, his peoples, his faithful struggles and faithful promises.