Neocolonialism? Reverse Racism? National Supremacism?

[kaye_katarn]

Over the last couple of years serving on Vestry (an elected church governing council in the Anglican/Episcopal tradition), being the youngest member I've usually been able to observe and generally sit on the sidelines of the more passionately divisive issues. Not being directly involved in most of them, I've usually had the luxury of evaluating

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[loki_of_asgard]

Seems to me like you did the right thing. I can understand the emotional state you must be in though, as you felt the need to put your thoughts down on keys.

It is a tricky landscape upon which the race card is played. You question yourself and your own motives, but that's healthy now and then.

Doesn't that prayer go "Dear Lord, disturb me..." something or other. I always liked that one.

[kaye_katarn]

Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the Waters of Life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery:
Where losing sight of land
We shall find the stars.

We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push us in the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.

Francis Drake, 1577

-Thanks, dobs :)