I am not a woman of great knowledge or wisdom. I don’t have a degree.
And yet… the truth was spelled out for me in a dream like at street sign caught in the headlights at night: “Canada is in Danger”
What do you mean Canada is in danger? I don’t feel threatened?
"We don't realize how vulnerable we are in one another's company," said Fr. Riccioli. "We depend and trust that people next to us are coming out of their best place. Sometimes that continuum doesn't work out. Some of it is random. But as a society we make choices; we pretend that people are on their own and that has consequences. When we decide that we would rather have a tax cut than a place to house people who are mentally ill that has consequences, too."
-Charles Lewis, National Post “Tragedy tests one’s faith”; in reference to the Greyhound atrocity
<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=696337&p=2>
Pretending that we are on our own isn’t so bad for the able bodied… a bit lonely perhaps.
But, independence is freedom… right?
Wrong.
We all fall down.
Whether it is due to illness, accident, or old age; we all fall down.
So…
Let’s STOP pretending that we’re all alone.
Two is better than one… if one falls down, his friend can help him up.
Woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
And yet… the truth was spelled out for me in a dream like at street sign caught in the headlights at night: “Canada is in Danger”
What do you mean Canada is in danger? I don’t feel threatened?
"We don't realize how vulnerable we are in one another's company," said Fr. Riccioli. "We depend and trust that people next to us are coming out of their best place. Sometimes that continuum doesn't work out. Some of it is random. But as a society we make choices; we pretend that people are on their own and that has consequences. When we decide that we would rather have a tax cut than a place to house people who are mentally ill that has consequences, too."
-Charles Lewis, National Post “Tragedy tests one’s faith”; in reference to the Greyhound atrocity
<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=696337&p=2>
Pretending that we are on our own isn’t so bad for the able bodied… a bit lonely perhaps.
But, independence is freedom… right?
Wrong.
We all fall down.
Whether it is due to illness, accident, or old age; we all fall down.
So…
Let’s STOP pretending that we’re all alone.
Two is better than one… if one falls down, his friend can help him up.
Woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
- Ecc. 4:9a, 10
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