Two things, and three.
Couple of things in mind this morning, or three. The first is that I once knew a man who died of a broken heart soon after the death of his wife and then his son dying sudden and unexpected in front of him, a man my age whom I had worked with as priest and friend, and tried to help him through, and he just couldn't make it. But until now it never occurred to me that a tree could die of a broken heart, but I'm seeing it. So many local area pine trees who were still standing after Hurricane Michael passed through, when all their colleagues were broken and hanging over dying, seem to have given up on life.
And in Time will have to be taken down. I do understand though, because driving through the Cove and out through Parker, Springfield and Callaway to Tyndall, I still feel it myself nine months on, when I should be healing.
The other thing is that yesterday was a hallmark day at the osprey nest at Boulder County Fairgrounds, Colorado.
It was windy, and the wind helped lift both chicks into the air as they spread their wings and were lifted high,
not just to fly across the nest, but up well above the nest including to hover high.
One soared so high that for a while only her/his feet were visible, all the rest out of sight range of the camera.
The other thing I hesitate but feel too disgusted and sickened to let it pass, the unspeakable and indefensible, inexcusable and unforgivable comment that four congresswomen, non-white Americans, should go back where they came from. Anyone who thinks this dehumanizing other Americans is okay in America that is so disintegrating morally, back to when it ostensibly was so "Great" but actually was working to move beyond the masked and even unconscious evil of its deep-seated cultural racism, should examine self first and think twice, even remain penitently in the pew rather than dare come forward to the Altar and blaspheme the Body and Blood of the Lord by eating the Bread and sipping the Cup. Liturgical absolution does not cover unrepentant evil and its certainty, and John 20:23, the sin is retained.
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And in Time will have to be taken down. I do understand though, because driving through the Cove and out through Parker, Springfield and Callaway to Tyndall, I still feel it myself nine months on, when I should be healing.
The other thing is that yesterday was a hallmark day at the osprey nest at Boulder County Fairgrounds, Colorado.
It was windy, and the wind helped lift both chicks into the air as they spread their wings and were lifted high,
not just to fly across the nest, but up well above the nest including to hover high.
One soared so high that for a while only her/his feet were visible, all the rest out of sight range of the camera.
The other thing I hesitate but feel too disgusted and sickened to let it pass, the unspeakable and indefensible, inexcusable and unforgivable comment that four congresswomen, non-white Americans, should go back where they came from. Anyone who thinks this dehumanizing other Americans is okay in America that is so disintegrating morally, back to when it ostensibly was so "Great" but actually was working to move beyond the masked and even unconscious evil of its deep-seated cultural racism, should examine self first and think twice, even remain penitently in the pew rather than dare come forward to the Altar and blaspheme the Body and Blood of the Lord by eating the Bread and sipping the Cup. Liturgical absolution does not cover unrepentant evil and its certainty, and John 20:23, the sin is retained.
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