The Trump triumph is the result of a long, slow violence that is now bearing bitter fruit. Most of us have been lulled into a kind of numb participation in the atrocities of ecocide. What we consider normal is brutal. We have been converting a living world into dead machinery that now fully encloses us. There have been many prophets. They have all been despised and rejected. Collapse comes from corruption. And yet we enter the Kin-dom of Heaven in each moment of loving connection. This is our eternal life. We can choose loving connection in each moment until we breathe our last breath. I am grateful that we are invited into earth’s beloved community even now, after we have wounded her so terribly. I have chosen a life of poverty and humility, and I find this to be the most liberating and deeply rewarding path of all, even though it is precarious and has often been rough. Blessings on your mission to bring more and more
I too have been struck by how connectedly isolated we are in this moment. I can speak to people in Australia and never even nod acknowledgement to my neighbour. And adversity can bring unity. Living as a small neighbouring country under threat, we are unifying in several wats. The church is known for radical solutions such as those in Acts 4. Time to get to work. Some observations from a northern neighbour. Rev. Scott Brown
Thanks, Cameron! Your devotional spoke to me in this way: when I got to your upcoming events, they seemed irrelevant because of the angst of this moment. My son, who has recently retired from his work with the US Ianterior dept located at UGA was just informed that his successor has just been fired! And, Patricia Murphy’s article in the AJC identifies the cuts affecting GA at this point. Her point was people who voted for Trump to “drain the swamp” didn’t know that this is what he meant!
Oh, Truman, I am so sorry to hear this. Of course, neither of us is surprised, are we? It's all so needlessly heartbreaking. It's also why it matters that people educate themselves on the candidates they support. Trump told us all what he intended to do. Even wrote it in a 922-page document called Project 2025. But those who supported him and are now being hurt by these policies still seem shocked. I fear we have so much more destruction headed our way.
The Trump triumph is the result of a long, slow violence that is now bearing bitter fruit. Most of us have been lulled into a kind of numb participation in the atrocities of ecocide. What we consider normal is brutal. We have been converting a living world into dead machinery that now fully encloses us. There have been many prophets. They have all been despised and rejected. Collapse comes from corruption. And yet we enter the Kin-dom of Heaven in each moment of loving connection. This is our eternal life. We can choose loving connection in each moment until we breathe our last breath. I am grateful that we are invited into earth’s beloved community even now, after we have wounded her so terribly. I have chosen a life of poverty and humility, and I find this to be the most liberating and deeply rewarding path of all, even though it is precarious and has often been rough. Blessings on your mission to bring more and more
“conversations we are missing”.
I too have been struck by how connectedly isolated we are in this moment. I can speak to people in Australia and never even nod acknowledgement to my neighbour. And adversity can bring unity. Living as a small neighbouring country under threat, we are unifying in several wats. The church is known for radical solutions such as those in Acts 4. Time to get to work. Some observations from a northern neighbour. Rev. Scott Brown
Thanks, Cameron! Your devotional spoke to me in this way: when I got to your upcoming events, they seemed irrelevant because of the angst of this moment. My son, who has recently retired from his work with the US Ianterior dept located at UGA was just informed that his successor has just been fired! And, Patricia Murphy’s article in the AJC identifies the cuts affecting GA at this point. Her point was people who voted for Trump to “drain the swamp” didn’t know that this is what he meant!
Oh, Truman, I am so sorry to hear this. Of course, neither of us is surprised, are we? It's all so needlessly heartbreaking. It's also why it matters that people educate themselves on the candidates they support. Trump told us all what he intended to do. Even wrote it in a 922-page document called Project 2025. But those who supported him and are now being hurt by these policies still seem shocked. I fear we have so much more destruction headed our way.