Did you know that recent US government budget figures indicate that this administration has spent enough money in the prosecution of the Iraq war to give every Iraq citizen $150,000 and every Iraq family $500,000? This figure is based on Iraq’s population estimated presently at twenty-five million.
Based upon the three trillion dollar cost of the war to date, it has cost each US citizen $10,000 dollars. Of course the reality is that this war has cost you and me to date not one single penny. This total five year three trillion dollar debt has been borrowed and will be a burden on our children and grandchildren for many years to come.
At the present cost of 25 billion a month, two more years of staying in Iraq is another 600 billion of debt our grandchildren will owe our foreign sovereign creditors in China and the Middle East.
The entire three trillion dollars was given away through so-called “emergency supplementals,” meaning that your money was spent completely outside the normal budgeting process and without the normal budget caps. It is the equivalent of writing Uncle Sam a blank check.
These were quick and easy give-away dollars that our grandchildren will be paying interest on far out into the unforeseeable future. In other words three trillion dollars was given out in an un-scrutinized, undifferentiated and totally unaccountable fashion.
Contrast this administration’s shoddy spending and record keeping practices on the Iraq war with how it is presently dealing with the present home mortgage crisis. It has taken this administration since last August to help fewer than 2,500 of more than 2 million Americans staring at foreclosure this year.
While our defense department can pay over 150,000 private security contractors over $400,000 per person, plus expensive life insurance policies, compared to only $40,000 per US soldier per year, this administration has scrutinized and micro-managed to death assistance to struggling American homeowners.
For these prospective recipients saddled with foreclosed houses, the “appropriateness” of government loans or insurance is calculated down to the smallest detail including itemized tax returns and assorted eligibility requirements. When asked to help Americans in need here on the home front the issue of how much taxpayer money should be put at risk suddenly becomes this administration’s chief concern.
Since World War II it appears no longer necessary for the people’s national legislature – our Congress - to pass a formal declaration of war. Now it is also becoming increasingly popular for our congressional leaders to shirk their constitutional responsibilities by simply approving humongous blank checks to the President to fight his own personal wars.
Contact your Congress persons and tell them that you aren’t going to take it any more. Tell them that you no longer consider them responsible stewards of the peace nor sufficiently competent to manage the people’s finances. Tell them that you will be looking for a new representative to do the people’s business in Washington. Get out and vote in the upcoming election and write in the name of the person who you think will represent you and your country’s best interests.
After you have written your letter or made your call, visit your nearest library or bookstore and pick up “The Three Trillion Dollar War” by laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard economist Linda Bilmes on the true cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.
Respectfully,
William R. Benedict, Madison
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Monday, April 28, 2008
We Won’t Take It Anymore
I was saddened this week to read about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) release of REX’s latest Environmental Impact Statement and the commission’s staff ruling that the company’s plan be approved. In spite of this I am still hopeful that Indiana’s Governor or its two U.S. Senators and the district’s congressional representative will still stand up and tell the 5-member commission that the 37,000 southeastern Indiana residents are tired and just won’t take it anymore.
Meanwhile, I am so proud of the members of the Franklin County Area Plan Commission who recently voted unanimously to turn down the “special exception application” from REX. I am also proud of the county’s citizens who for months have written letters to this newspaper explaining why they were opposed to this project and arguing for its defeat.
Finally, I am proud of this newspaper’s editor, John Estridge, who in his most recent editorial so deservedly castigated Indiana’s congressional delegation and its Governor for seemingly caving in to the rich and powerful and in so doing putting 37,000 of our sisters and brothers and future generations of Franklin County residents at serious risk of their property and their lives.
As a former Franklin County resident with still deep roots in this community I strongly suggest that each person who reads this letter write or call their representatives and tell them that if and when the FERC approves this dastardly project they will no longer have your vote in the fall elections. Only by taking such action now can Franklin County residents stop the next great incursion on their rights, liberties and lives.
Most respectfully,
William R. Benedict
Meanwhile, I am so proud of the members of the Franklin County Area Plan Commission who recently voted unanimously to turn down the “special exception application” from REX. I am also proud of the county’s citizens who for months have written letters to this newspaper explaining why they were opposed to this project and arguing for its defeat.
Finally, I am proud of this newspaper’s editor, John Estridge, who in his most recent editorial so deservedly castigated Indiana’s congressional delegation and its Governor for seemingly caving in to the rich and powerful and in so doing putting 37,000 of our sisters and brothers and future generations of Franklin County residents at serious risk of their property and their lives.
As a former Franklin County resident with still deep roots in this community I strongly suggest that each person who reads this letter write or call their representatives and tell them that if and when the FERC approves this dastardly project they will no longer have your vote in the fall elections. Only by taking such action now can Franklin County residents stop the next great incursion on their rights, liberties and lives.
Most respectfully,
William R. Benedict
Saturday, September 29, 2007
The Left Hand of God - A Book Review
Chapter 3
“The Voice of Fear and the Voice of Hope”
Rabbi Michael Lerner has written a book entitled, The Left Hand of God---Taking Back our Country From the Religious Right. In Chapter 3, The Voice of Fear and the Voice of Hope, pages 77-92, he writes about two world views.
The first world view he describes, he calls the Right Hand of God. It is the view of fear, isolation and selfishness. The Left Hand of God he refers to as generosity and hope. The former he also refers to as the Cynical Realism view, and the latter as the Spiritually Conscious view.
Cynical Realism views each of us as looking after ourselves as we try to keep an advantage over all others. In fact this fear of others is considered just plain common sense. This is also the state of “heightened alert and fear.”
The Spiritually Conscious view, on the other hand, sees the human being as one who desires a loving connection with others and seeks ways to cooperate with one another. He or she is most fulfilled when we are needed by others and can provide generously to others. He or she feels that their state is intrinsically bound to all others. This state of consciousness Learner calls the “heightened generosity and hope.”
These two world views can also be seen as two opposite paradigms or cultures. The culture of hope is often viewed by the Cynical Realists as being “out of touch with reality, and just plain nonsense. These two world views can be viewed as existing on two opposite poles and on a continuum. Along this continuum at any given time in our history social, political and spiritual energy flows or oscillates back and forth between these two poles. During the Great Depression of 1929, The Joe McCarthy era, the Cold War, and more recently 9/11 Americans adopted a state of fear mentality. This can best be seen in the color codes and alerts, the suspicion, the spying and the assigning certain groups and nations with divine rights, and the others as part of the evil empire.
In contrast during the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement eras the spirit of hope and generosity reigned. In this culture of hope and greater solidarity all humans are treated as being in this divine image and in our essence as all being good. We are gentle and compassionate with one another. We believe that evil and injustice can be overcome and that we need not to live in fear. We believe in the continuous transformation for a greater good for all. God commands us to pursue justice. God is caring and generous and so are we.
In the culture of fear, God is seen as an all powerful Warrior with a Strong Right Hand and strong judgment and combativeness.
Which view we choose to take is influenced by the following factors:
1. Our family legacy
2. The socialization process that we experienced at school and in our neighborhood
3. Our current life situation, i.e., do we feel left out, estranged, alienated, discriminated against, etc..
4. Our religious beliefs
5. Current popular ideas, i.e., the media, Hollywood, etc.
6. How the people closest around us act.
We can use this fear vs. hope paradigm to assess any phenomenon in our lives, including our own campaign finance reform project: Do public funded political campaigns create more generosity, goodness and compassion in this world, than privately funded campaigns? Which one is more likely to produce power over and which one will more likely produce power sharing with others? Will the marriage referendum bring about a greater generosity and hope for all or will it further isolate and create barriers to our democracy?
We can use the fear/hope or faith standard to assess the effect of a TV show, a sermon or speech, a movie, a news story, a commercial or advertisement, and a small group meeting like our own.
As a further standard or screening device, I would add here our own moral values. For example, we can use Talcott Parsons’ five pattern variables: Self vs. the larger collectivity; our family or tribe vs. more universalistic values; one’s performance and achievement vs. the diffuse quality of the person; seeing people narrowly for what they can do for us or more diffusely as divine beings; and seeing people only economically and rationally or also with feelings, or affectivity vs. affectivity neutrality.
At the small group level or at the nation state level we can survey the four functional requirements or functions and choose the more just direction.
1. Do we wish to spiral outward into the larger community and participate as full citizens in an ever more inclusive democracy or do we wish to assume a more insular and parochial role in our in-group or nation state?
2. Do we wish to participate in goal achievement as equals or should we abdicate or rights and influence to the elites of this world.
3. Do we wish to recognize the worth and divinity in each of us and see each person as a multidimensional and complex human being or only as a consumer or employee?
4. Are we to be satisfied within the narrow solidarity of our own special group or nation/state or do we wish to play a larger and more integrative and inclusive role in this universe?
“The Voice of Fear and the Voice of Hope”
Rabbi Michael Lerner has written a book entitled, The Left Hand of God---Taking Back our Country From the Religious Right. In Chapter 3, The Voice of Fear and the Voice of Hope, pages 77-92, he writes about two world views.
The first world view he describes, he calls the Right Hand of God. It is the view of fear, isolation and selfishness. The Left Hand of God he refers to as generosity and hope. The former he also refers to as the Cynical Realism view, and the latter as the Spiritually Conscious view.
Cynical Realism views each of us as looking after ourselves as we try to keep an advantage over all others. In fact this fear of others is considered just plain common sense. This is also the state of “heightened alert and fear.”
The Spiritually Conscious view, on the other hand, sees the human being as one who desires a loving connection with others and seeks ways to cooperate with one another. He or she is most fulfilled when we are needed by others and can provide generously to others. He or she feels that their state is intrinsically bound to all others. This state of consciousness Learner calls the “heightened generosity and hope.”
These two world views can also be seen as two opposite paradigms or cultures. The culture of hope is often viewed by the Cynical Realists as being “out of touch with reality, and just plain nonsense. These two world views can be viewed as existing on two opposite poles and on a continuum. Along this continuum at any given time in our history social, political and spiritual energy flows or oscillates back and forth between these two poles. During the Great Depression of 1929, The Joe McCarthy era, the Cold War, and more recently 9/11 Americans adopted a state of fear mentality. This can best be seen in the color codes and alerts, the suspicion, the spying and the assigning certain groups and nations with divine rights, and the others as part of the evil empire.
In contrast during the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement eras the spirit of hope and generosity reigned. In this culture of hope and greater solidarity all humans are treated as being in this divine image and in our essence as all being good. We are gentle and compassionate with one another. We believe that evil and injustice can be overcome and that we need not to live in fear. We believe in the continuous transformation for a greater good for all. God commands us to pursue justice. God is caring and generous and so are we.
In the culture of fear, God is seen as an all powerful Warrior with a Strong Right Hand and strong judgment and combativeness.
Which view we choose to take is influenced by the following factors:
1. Our family legacy
2. The socialization process that we experienced at school and in our neighborhood
3. Our current life situation, i.e., do we feel left out, estranged, alienated, discriminated against, etc..
4. Our religious beliefs
5. Current popular ideas, i.e., the media, Hollywood, etc.
6. How the people closest around us act.
We can use this fear vs. hope paradigm to assess any phenomenon in our lives, including our own campaign finance reform project: Do public funded political campaigns create more generosity, goodness and compassion in this world, than privately funded campaigns? Which one is more likely to produce power over and which one will more likely produce power sharing with others? Will the marriage referendum bring about a greater generosity and hope for all or will it further isolate and create barriers to our democracy?
We can use the fear/hope or faith standard to assess the effect of a TV show, a sermon or speech, a movie, a news story, a commercial or advertisement, and a small group meeting like our own.
As a further standard or screening device, I would add here our own moral values. For example, we can use Talcott Parsons’ five pattern variables: Self vs. the larger collectivity; our family or tribe vs. more universalistic values; one’s performance and achievement vs. the diffuse quality of the person; seeing people narrowly for what they can do for us or more diffusely as divine beings; and seeing people only economically and rationally or also with feelings, or affectivity vs. affectivity neutrality.
At the small group level or at the nation state level we can survey the four functional requirements or functions and choose the more just direction.
1. Do we wish to spiral outward into the larger community and participate as full citizens in an ever more inclusive democracy or do we wish to assume a more insular and parochial role in our in-group or nation state?
2. Do we wish to participate in goal achievement as equals or should we abdicate or rights and influence to the elites of this world.
3. Do we wish to recognize the worth and divinity in each of us and see each person as a multidimensional and complex human being or only as a consumer or employee?
4. Are we to be satisfied within the narrow solidarity of our own special group or nation/state or do we wish to play a larger and more integrative and inclusive role in this universe?
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Generosity
Letter to the Editor
Sunday, April 15th is the deadline for paying our taxes. My partner and I celebrating this Sunday as “Generosity Sunday” and will be inviting our neighbors into our home to get better acquainted with them and also to talk to them regarding how they feel about how our federal taxes are being used.
Our local chapter of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) believe that generosity is a more effective and ethical approach to human security than is military aggression and other, “softer” means of using U.S. power to serve our own interests. We are proposing “The Global Marshall Plan: A National Security Strategy of Generosity and Care.
This plan calls for using 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the world’s developed nations every year for distributing aid in a way that is environmentally sensitive and respectful of native cultures to help empower the people. To learn more about celebrating Generosity Sunday and this plan, see our website, nsp.madisonwi.us. We invite you and your neighbors to join us on Sunday the 15th in your own neighborhoods to celebrate “Generosity Sunday.”
Sunday, April 15th is the deadline for paying our taxes. My partner and I celebrating this Sunday as “Generosity Sunday” and will be inviting our neighbors into our home to get better acquainted with them and also to talk to them regarding how they feel about how our federal taxes are being used.
Our local chapter of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) believe that generosity is a more effective and ethical approach to human security than is military aggression and other, “softer” means of using U.S. power to serve our own interests. We are proposing “The Global Marshall Plan: A National Security Strategy of Generosity and Care.
This plan calls for using 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the world’s developed nations every year for distributing aid in a way that is environmentally sensitive and respectful of native cultures to help empower the people. To learn more about celebrating Generosity Sunday and this plan, see our website, nsp.madisonwi.us. We invite you and your neighbors to join us on Sunday the 15th in your own neighborhoods to celebrate “Generosity Sunday.”
Celebrate Generosity Sunday!
Network of Spiritual Progressives
Madison Chapter
We believe that we need a deeper and more positive vision of the world we want to see. We see a world in which the “domination and control” strategy is replaced by a “generosity and caring” focus at every level of our society. Such a vision or strategy should also replace our Homeland Security and National Defense strategy.
Most briefly, the counter strategy that we are proposing would call for a “Global Marshall Plan (GMP),” which would have the United States and the other G-8 countries dedicate 5% of their GDP for the next twenty years toward eliminating global and domestic poverty, inadequate health care and education, all toward repairing our global infrastructure and environment.
Your local chapter believes that a GMP strategy will gain greater support of the American people and the world than our nation’s preemptive defense strategy. We believe that such a “defense” policy is merely a self-interest strategy that threatens world peace and ignores the peoples’ desire for world peace with justice.
In clear contrast, the GMP initiative is a challenge to all sides of the current debate about the war because it shows that peace can be coupled with real involvement in the world. We urge everyone to consider the Generosity and Caring strategy. If we want a world without war and sustainable we need a generous nation that treats all the peoples of the world with love, caring and respect.
We would like for you to consider celebrating with us on “tax” Sunday, April 15th, 2007, by inviting your neighbors in for a discussion of this issue. For more information go to nsp.madisonwi.us, www.spiritualprogresives.org and www.globalmarshallplan.org.
We encourage you to celebrate with us by beginning this dialogue on how we could better achieve security in our world.
Madison Chapter
We believe that we need a deeper and more positive vision of the world we want to see. We see a world in which the “domination and control” strategy is replaced by a “generosity and caring” focus at every level of our society. Such a vision or strategy should also replace our Homeland Security and National Defense strategy.
Most briefly, the counter strategy that we are proposing would call for a “Global Marshall Plan (GMP),” which would have the United States and the other G-8 countries dedicate 5% of their GDP for the next twenty years toward eliminating global and domestic poverty, inadequate health care and education, all toward repairing our global infrastructure and environment.
Your local chapter believes that a GMP strategy will gain greater support of the American people and the world than our nation’s preemptive defense strategy. We believe that such a “defense” policy is merely a self-interest strategy that threatens world peace and ignores the peoples’ desire for world peace with justice.
In clear contrast, the GMP initiative is a challenge to all sides of the current debate about the war because it shows that peace can be coupled with real involvement in the world. We urge everyone to consider the Generosity and Caring strategy. If we want a world without war and sustainable we need a generous nation that treats all the peoples of the world with love, caring and respect.
We would like for you to consider celebrating with us on “tax” Sunday, April 15th, 2007, by inviting your neighbors in for a discussion of this issue. For more information go to nsp.madisonwi.us, www.spiritualprogresives.org and www.globalmarshallplan.org.
We encourage you to celebrate with us by beginning this dialogue on how we could better achieve security in our world.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Let’s Talk Values
There is a new spiritual movement afoot in Madison that is committed to reforming our political system. It is not focused around any single issue. Instead, it is asking the American people to participate in a national value-clarification discussion. The Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) is an off-shoot of the Jewish Interfaith movement magazine, Tikkun. The editor, Rabbi Michael Lerner, is a renowned social theorist and theologian. Lerner has recently written a book, The Left Hand of God --Taking Back Our Community From the Religious Right.
On June 19, 2006 a group met at Unity of Madison and took steps to organize an NSP chapter here in Madison. The NSP is intended as an alternative to the political Right, and what it calls “the ethos of selfishness, materialism and cynicism.” The Tikkun Community believes that the Right’s values, situated in a larger context of fear, have led America into a frantic search for money and power and away from a life of hope, love, kindness and generosity. The nature of the NSP’s spirituality is one that is based on fundamental values.
There are five value comparisons that have been used extensively in cultural studies and to contrast the values of the American corporation sub-culture with our larger society. In the following list, corporate values are listed first and followed by family values: Discourage feeling expression vs. encourage feeling expression; Self interest vs. community interest; Treat a person based on a rule or principal vs. your relationship to the person; Treat a person based on her achievement vs. on her total attributes; respond to a person’s needs on a very narrow basis, i.e. employer/employee vs. responding to a person’s diverse and diffuse needs, i.e. mother/child or husband/wife.
By introducing and discussing these above values this writer hopes to begin a larger State of Wisconsin discussion about what America’s core values are and should be. Are corporate values taking root and perhaps even beginning to dominate our family and larger community culture, and if so, is this good for America? What impact is the American corporate culture having on our global economy and world peace? Finally, our readers may want to use these five value comparisons to further clarify their own family and community values.
Based on these five value alternatives we can see that corporate America’s culture requires that in work or business dealings employees generally are encouraged to repress emotional expression; that the corporation’s principal interest is its own welfare and the bottom line; that business activity will be based on rules and only secondarily on personal relationships. That the company will treat their employees principally on the basis of how they perform or achieve rather than on who they are; that the employer will restrict their interaction with employees more narrowly around job descriptions and matters of business. Finally, the company’s relationship to their employees is segmented and circumscribed.
In stark contrast, a community or family culture is largely based on very different values that allow for a broad range of impulse and emotional expression. Interdependence is valued and members’ concerns for others extend into caring and love for one another. Here a family member should expect to find supportive primary relationships. While a person’s achievement is recognized, the person is also rewarded for a wide range of personal and social attributes. There is the promise of many diffuse relationships and multiple human needs are met.
It is useful to examine these five core value alternatives in the context of our major social institutions, i.e. government, church, courts and the family. Part of our discussion needs to consider the consequences to our country when economic-centered values begin to infiltrate and replace our other traditional institutional values. Regretfully, I believe this is what is happening.
It’s clear emotional expression in the family is being blunted and often ignored resulting in ever increasing depression and violence in our society. It can be seen in an ever increasing culture of selfishness and materialism. It can also be seen in our growing homeless population and in the denial of economic entitlements for our poorest and neediest children. It can be seen in our national educational reform program (NCLB) which values achievement and ever higher competitive testing compliance more than rewarding moral character building and life-long social and emotional competencies. Finally, it can be seen in the disintegration of our civic life and in our increasing insulation and isolation from our neighbors.
A 1995-2005 comparative ten year study found that the average American when asked how many friends they had now reported having twenty fewer friends, and when asked how many “best friends” changed their answer from three down to only two. Many youngsters when asked this same question now often list only “virtual” on-line friendships. Studies also tell us that more and more adults report less and less time for family, civic and other community involvement. All trends seem to be telling us that our jobs and consumer-related activities are squeezing more and more time out of our family and leisure hours.
Hopefully an on-going discussion of these values will soften and quiet the now loud stereotypical rehashing of the same old left-right issues and allow for a more in depth and rational dialogue.
On June 19, 2006 a group met at Unity of Madison and took steps to organize an NSP chapter here in Madison. The NSP is intended as an alternative to the political Right, and what it calls “the ethos of selfishness, materialism and cynicism.” The Tikkun Community believes that the Right’s values, situated in a larger context of fear, have led America into a frantic search for money and power and away from a life of hope, love, kindness and generosity. The nature of the NSP’s spirituality is one that is based on fundamental values.
There are five value comparisons that have been used extensively in cultural studies and to contrast the values of the American corporation sub-culture with our larger society. In the following list, corporate values are listed first and followed by family values: Discourage feeling expression vs. encourage feeling expression; Self interest vs. community interest; Treat a person based on a rule or principal vs. your relationship to the person; Treat a person based on her achievement vs. on her total attributes; respond to a person’s needs on a very narrow basis, i.e. employer/employee vs. responding to a person’s diverse and diffuse needs, i.e. mother/child or husband/wife.
By introducing and discussing these above values this writer hopes to begin a larger State of Wisconsin discussion about what America’s core values are and should be. Are corporate values taking root and perhaps even beginning to dominate our family and larger community culture, and if so, is this good for America? What impact is the American corporate culture having on our global economy and world peace? Finally, our readers may want to use these five value comparisons to further clarify their own family and community values.
Based on these five value alternatives we can see that corporate America’s culture requires that in work or business dealings employees generally are encouraged to repress emotional expression; that the corporation’s principal interest is its own welfare and the bottom line; that business activity will be based on rules and only secondarily on personal relationships. That the company will treat their employees principally on the basis of how they perform or achieve rather than on who they are; that the employer will restrict their interaction with employees more narrowly around job descriptions and matters of business. Finally, the company’s relationship to their employees is segmented and circumscribed.
In stark contrast, a community or family culture is largely based on very different values that allow for a broad range of impulse and emotional expression. Interdependence is valued and members’ concerns for others extend into caring and love for one another. Here a family member should expect to find supportive primary relationships. While a person’s achievement is recognized, the person is also rewarded for a wide range of personal and social attributes. There is the promise of many diffuse relationships and multiple human needs are met.
It is useful to examine these five core value alternatives in the context of our major social institutions, i.e. government, church, courts and the family. Part of our discussion needs to consider the consequences to our country when economic-centered values begin to infiltrate and replace our other traditional institutional values. Regretfully, I believe this is what is happening.
It’s clear emotional expression in the family is being blunted and often ignored resulting in ever increasing depression and violence in our society. It can be seen in an ever increasing culture of selfishness and materialism. It can also be seen in our growing homeless population and in the denial of economic entitlements for our poorest and neediest children. It can be seen in our national educational reform program (NCLB) which values achievement and ever higher competitive testing compliance more than rewarding moral character building and life-long social and emotional competencies. Finally, it can be seen in the disintegration of our civic life and in our increasing insulation and isolation from our neighbors.
A 1995-2005 comparative ten year study found that the average American when asked how many friends they had now reported having twenty fewer friends, and when asked how many “best friends” changed their answer from three down to only two. Many youngsters when asked this same question now often list only “virtual” on-line friendships. Studies also tell us that more and more adults report less and less time for family, civic and other community involvement. All trends seem to be telling us that our jobs and consumer-related activities are squeezing more and more time out of our family and leisure hours.
Hopefully an on-going discussion of these values will soften and quiet the now loud stereotypical rehashing of the same old left-right issues and allow for a more in depth and rational dialogue.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
A Prayer
Great Spirit,
We pray this evening for
Ever greater meaning and
Purpose in our lives.
Please great Spirit, give us
A purpose for Being.
We pray for the Will and courage
To commit to something
Larger than ourselves.
Great Spirit, we are ready
To risk, to serve and to commit
To the greater well being of our Universe.
As your prophet, Matthew Fox
Pleaded,
Let us Thunder for Social Justice together!
Amen
We pray this evening for
Ever greater meaning and
Purpose in our lives.
Please great Spirit, give us
A purpose for Being.
We pray for the Will and courage
To commit to something
Larger than ourselves.
Great Spirit, we are ready
To risk, to serve and to commit
To the greater well being of our Universe.
As your prophet, Matthew Fox
Pleaded,
Let us Thunder for Social Justice together!
Amen
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