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. The one I didn't want to win, ever, won. It always happens that way for me. I get involved in their life. Living vicariously like that does nothing for me and makes me feel terrible, when inevitably, they don't win. So, I swore off unscripted TV. Because, really, do I need to spend time watching that crap? No. I also am giving up award shows. I'll watch award shows when they are giving them for folks I know, doing things that make a real difference. A movie, TV show, play isn't any better if it wins or doesn't win. So, that cuts down on a LOT of TV. Now I have to decide what I am going to do with it. 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.
During Advent christians are looking back and anticipating forward at the same time, grateful and wary with the themes of judgment and purification that are in the texts at this time of year. Are we responsible for poverty if we are not poor?