Compassion is a gift that changes the world. We have discovered and remembered our sisters and brothers in a land many of us will never see – our common humanity is staring us in the face, and we have chosen to meet the gaze of Haiti.
“As horrible and painful as it was, I have experienced so much growth. What we’ve gone through and the hard work we’ve put into restoring our marriage has been a powerful witness to our sons.”
Some of what makes bishop-to-be Scott Benhase tick was formed in a mission experience to Guatemala in 1977 sponsored by Fred Lamar, a chaplain in the ’70s at DePauw University who sponsored and nurtured a few thousands students on such trips over a generation. Lamar died this week.
Facebook this week was dominated by chatter over the Haiti earthquake. Our Wednesday post featuring email updates from those in the loop got a lot
Here’s a mural in an Anglican church somewhere in Port au Prince that depicts the Gospel lesson being read by most of us today – Jesus’ miracle at a wedding of Cana, turning water into wine.
I think it is the tiniest, the most intimate miracles that we find most moving and important. What event is more powerful for us, more filled with awe and hope and fear than the birth of a child? Or, how many events carry more promise for a family than a wedding; or for a community than a baptism? And how many of us have found our lives shaped profoundly by an important conversation with a teacher?
A brother said to an old man, “Abba, I go and beg the old men to speak to me about the salvation of my soul, and I do not remember any of their words, so what ought I to do? Continue to ask them, but do nothing? In truth, I am altogether in impurity.”