#SisterWendy shared a dream in 3 parts:"First I was looking at magnificent pictures of lakes, then I was actually walking beside these lakes seeing them in their full reality, and then the lakes were inside me. I was containing the lakes...
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....But the significant point is that when I was walking beside the lakes I realized that there was something wrong. The lakes were being damaged, poisoned perhaps, and it was my great sorrow over this and my desire to purify them that carried me into the third stage....
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..Because in my own self the lakes were being changed and purified. I suppose this is an image of what being a Christian means. In Jesus we take the whole wounded world into ourselves and suffer with it, holding it out all the time to His holiness...
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...So you see this was a deep and beautiful dream, a dream that enlarged me and made me feel a part of His redemptive suffering, which of course is true of all of us. That’s why we live still and don’t flit off to heaven: His lakes need us."--Sister Wendy Beckett #EarthDay
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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