But What Can We Do? - Sept. 22, 2019
Despair is solitary. Hope is communal. Hope depends on community and on compassion. Both words begin with the same prefix, “com” meaning with. “Community” refers to individuals coming together, while compassion means to suffer with, to feel another’s pain as if it were your own. We act when we feel and when we know we are not alone. And that’s when things begin to happen. ...
Friday’s marches were not an end in themselves. They changed nothing. But they enabled us to feel the spirit flowing. And that is the beginning of change. Read the whole sermon here:
Friday’s marches were not an end in themselves. They changed nothing. But they enabled us to feel the spirit flowing. And that is the beginning of change. Read the whole sermon here:
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