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Poverty. How does it get to be such an abstraction? 6.6 billion people on the planet, 1.4 billion of them "food insecure." Over 900 million suffering from severe hunger. 16,000 children die everyday from hunger related causes. 1 every 5 seconds. Abstraction. 11-12% of the people in Washington State and the U.S. food insecure as …
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The ravaged paper is in sacks to be tossed (if the trash man ever comes again), ribbons and bows worth keeping have been culled to be kept in a box for another round at birthdays or next Christmas, and the shirts and sweaters and new journal and the other things have been stacked and carried …
This is the kind of morning on which I wouldn't normally post. Because I have things on my mind, mostly related to ontology vs. perception, but who wants to read about that? Then there are the church issues, but again, who wants to read about that? So much abstraction in my head while the sun …
What I mean by that is that all endings are beginnings. One era gives way to another, and I find myself in the familiar territory of deciding which of several potential paths to take. The depth of the empty nest surprised me, and now I find myself smack in the middle of new possibilities. Again, …
Words like "spirit", "energy", "intention", "living water"--all these are rolling around in my head this morning. Can you tell I've been prepping for a series of sermons on the Holy Spirit? Who can tell all that goes into the creation of a mood, or a way of being on a particular day? Is it all …
JEFF BERRYMAN 