The Rt Revd Andrew M. L. Dietsche, bishop diocesan of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, has added his voice to the call for churches
… on your way to worship this morning, look for wisdom when you stop for gas, or coffee. See if you can find her in the restaurant or grocery store on the way home. Maybe she is in the market around the corner. She’s looking for you. Let yourself be found.
Bretagne (pronounced like Brittany) is a search & rescue dog for Texas Taskforce 1. TX-TF1 was officially admitted to the US FEMA Urban Search & Rescue System as a full non-probationary member in JUN 2001. System member units respond on a rotating basis to natural disasters and incidents of national significance. TX-TF1 responded to NYC during the aftermath of the attack on 9/11. Bretagne and her handler Denise Corliss responded to the call to help. This was their first deployment to a disaster.
When you’re flying above a dense and diverse environment like Manhattan, there is little time to reflect on what you are seeing below. Only in retrospect can you savor moments and see what you had been capturing with instinct. Thus it is with this photograph, where you can see people looking like so many black ants crowded around the square fountains that were once the footprint of the World Trade Center.
Thursday, many folks in NYC shared photos of a rainbow that appeared over the island of Manhattan. At one point the rainbow seemed to end directly over the new World Trade Center.
Planting Peace is headquartered in the Equality House, painted the colors of the GLBT Pride Flag, across the street from Westboro Baptist church in Topeka KS. This week as a part of their advocacy for GLBTQ rights, Planting Peace has traveled to Morehead KY to leave a message for the Rowan County clerk, Kim Davis.
How to tell one of God’s prophets from mere fortunetellers who want to tell us what the future is going to be? Listen. Are they telling us what we want to hear or something we don’t?