My buddy, Tommy Goode, Executive Director of City Core Initiative (www.citycoreinitiative.org, the website to be launched by mid-September) sent me a page from the Bruderhof community's web page and blog.
If you don't know about this amazing, historic community, it will be well worth your time to check out their site, their history and their resources at http://dailydig.bruderhof.org/.
Here is the quote for the day from the entry Tommy shared:
When Catastrophe Strikes
Only when we take human existence upon ourselves in its starkest and most humiliating misery—a misery in which nothing has meaning—can we win through to the only possible way to live.
Only when we taste the lot of all, when we become involved deeply in world suffering, one in heart with the need of humanity, can we win through to our true vocation.
Only when the conscience becomes active, only when love is born out of suffering, only when hardship leads to liberating action, is victory near.
Eberhard Arnold
Lecture, April 1919
Seems to me a fit meditation for this day.
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