November 05, 2023 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Kahtadin Range 05 09/27/2010 — Sandy Stream Pond, Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine ,
We need to make things right--
as right as they can be made--
by making reparations and restitution
to indigenous people 
and descendants of slaves,
and stop talking about God and Jesus
until we do that.

God and Jesus demand/require that
reparations and restitution be made.
We make a mockery of our affiliation
with God and Jesus until we do
at least that much.

Candidates for political office
who don't make this a part of their platform
are unfit for office,
and people who go to church
without making this a part of their 
declaration of faith
are unfit to be called Christians.

And people currently in office
who want to "cleanse America of Palestinians 
and immigrants"
have to come to terms with the fact
that they, themselves, are descendants of immigrants,
which makes them immigrants,
and resign from office
for being ignorant,
stupid
and mean.

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I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

5 thoughts on “November 05, 2023 – A”

      2. I simply want to thank you for what you wrote in November 1993: what are we here for the business of the church is not to perpetuate itself. Your words are as true today – 20 years later – as they were then.
        Gail Mott, gailmott14619@gmail.com

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      3. Hi Gail–Thanks for your encouraging words! Listening and looking, hearing and seeing and responding in ways appropriate to the occasion is mostly about getting out of the way and not trying to impose our will for the world onto the world, but allowing things to take their course with responses appropriate to the occasion. And it is important to remain in the company of those who are doing these tings, listening and looking… We all help one another to hear and see, and to respond appropriately to what is happening with what is called for, in each situation as it arises. May it be so for all of us always! — Jim

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