Sacred

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Ask what is in the wind

ask what is sacred.

Margaret Atwood,

The Circle Poems

Hunger for Bread & Justice

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O God, to those who have hunger give bread,
And to us who have bread give the hunger for justice.

Prayer from Latin America

Creating meaning together

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Social Constructionism:
We construct our world, our reality, through our language.

Mark Lau Branson, Memories, Hopes, and Conversations


As people create meaning together, so do they sow the seeds of action. Meaning and action are intertwined. As we generate meaning together we create the future.

Taos Institute website [http://www.taosinstitute.net/]


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Hands

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Hands that give also receive.

Ecuadorian Proverb

Blessings abound

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I deal better with curses when I remind myself that blessings abound, just as I deal better with my shadows when I remember that forgiveness is real.

Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

God of Abundance

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O God of abundance, you feed us every day.
Rise in us now, make us into your bread,
that we may share your gifts with a hungry world,
and join in love with all people,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Feeding

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There’s hunger beyond food that’s expressed in food, and that’s why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Being Happy

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I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
The only ones among you who will be really happy
Are those ones who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Food

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Food is a cultural product; it cannot be produced by technology alone … a healthy culture is a communal order of memory, insight, value, work, conviviality, reverence, aspiration. … It clarifies our inescapable bonds to the earth and to each other.

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America