Displaced People

[leitourgia]

Today, after church, a group of folks loaded up my car with clothes and food and I drove to La Pita in Dearborn to pick up a bunch of food for the people displaced by Katrina that Christ Church was hosting for lunch. I called the order in last night and, when asked what type of meat I wanted I asked what the manager thought I should get. As I

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Displaced

[robmoros]

I was just watching "Three Kings", a movie from the late 90s about the first Iraq war. One of my favorite bits of movie dialogue is between Spike Jonze's under-educated private and George Clooney's Green Beret Major.
Clooney: "You're scared, right?"
Jonze: "Maybe."
Clooney: "The way this works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of and the you get the courage after you do it. Not before."
Jonze: "that's a dumb ass way to work. It should be the other way around."
Clooney: "I know. But that's the way it works."

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[redbyrd]

I am so pleased that you are able to really put legs to your prayers and money contribution..this seems to me that this is a real rewarding experience for you..I think when we have communication with people of other races, that it enriches us so much. I felt this way in 1959 while traveling in Germany we were privilege to a picnic with some of our church brethren and also to have some classes to sit and find out some of their thinking and some of our thinking...I have never forgotten how much this meant to me...