In my opinion, this image speaks way more adequately than anything I've written here in the last eight weeks, and it sums up well several of my points about American consumerism, political corruption, and our frustration with not feeling like we have enough.
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Some of the posts on my blog might interest you. Particularly today's, entitled "Presence":
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Dear JR,
Thanks for your comment. It hit me about midway through this post that I know C. duh, me. He's one of our great friends from New Haven and totally awesome! He prayed in New Haven all the time too. :-)
Secondly, presence. Yes, how are we best present to those who need friendship? I respect your efforts to be authentic, disciplined, and prayerful. Has your regular praying and travels to church in anyway shaped your perspective and approach to the men hanging out on the church property? Or has it changed the way you must deal with the police officers who haggle them?
Real presence in the midst of maintaining such an important image (like shoppers who don't want to see poverty on their way out of the store) is a difficult and real issue. Thanks for calling attention to it.
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