Living Through Storms with Peace at Your Core
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- Sermon given by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 24, 2012. "Living Through Storms with Peace at Your Core." Reading: Mark 4:35-41. Check out All Saints' website at www.allsaints-p....
I will pray for you. Peace be with you.
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I repeat. I have a feeling that all hell is about to break loose.
Why do you think that all hell is going to break loose, gospelgirl?
Because you can't "defund the Crown."
Sincerely,
gospelgirl
An elder Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life, and he said to them, “I have to tell you, my grandchildren, that a fight is going on inside of me; it is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves.”
“Two wolves, grandfather? What wolves?”
He said, “One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false-pride, superiority, negativity, and ego. And the other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.”
The grandchildren thought about this for a moment. And then one child asked, “Grandfather, which wolf is winning?”
And the old Cherokee grandfather simply replied, “The wolf I feed.”
This is an edited review of that posted circa 9:15 a.m. Pacific Time, Wednesday, April 13, 2016 on Guidestar.org of a sister organization to All Saints:
Does Episcopal Community Service/s of San Francisco have any real
guidelines for who stays at its homeless shelters and how long they stay
there?
Apparently not.
At Next Door homeless shelter at 1001 Polk St., which is run by
Episcopal Community Service/s of San Francisco, clients are apparently
allowed to miss four nights in either a ninety day period or per month,
i.e. a thirty day period, and still have a bed. This is not at all
explained to new clients during the mandatory one p.m. Thursday new
client orientation sessions.
Moreover, most clients who miss coming back to the Next Door shelter
for four nights in a row know that they are forsaking their bed.
However, the rules and protocols are so lax at Next Door homeless
shelter, that certain clients get away with being away for four nights
in a row and still get their assigned beds.
Other clients at Next Door homeless shelter--even, as was recently
the case, one who had missed only one night and who had missed curfew on
another night--each of which owing to a hospitalization--will be booted
from the shelter at 1001 Polk St. Right after a hospitalization? Yes.
The current 'inhabitant' of bed 51 on the fourth floor was not only
allowed to threaten numerous times the inhabitant of bed 50 and to
batter the occupant of bed 50, but also was allowed to come back after
missing four consecutive nights and to retain her bed. She did this even
though the Next Door shelter staff installed a one night occupant in
her bed during one of these nights.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, guess what? The occupant of bed 38 on
the same floor and right in the vicinity of bed 51 was kicked out right
after she only had only the above two mentioned 'infractions'--missing
one night and being late on another because of a hospitalization.
She was literally made to appeal the decision for her immediate
removal from the Next Door homeless shelter with a hospital
identification wrist band still on her wrist from re recent
hospitalization; and was also made to do the instant appeal after five
p.m. Pacific Time, i.e. after any arguably responsible staff were
present who had made the decision to terminate her stay.
How is it that a batterer who continually harasses those on the
fourth floor like the current occupant of bed 51 is allowed to stay even
when she misses four consecutive nights and comes back after curfew
routinely, but a recently hospitalized occupant gets booted out even
though she demonstrably only had minor 'infractions' owing to her
hospitalization?
You will have to ask Episcopal Community Service/s of San Francisco
and the taxpayers who pay into the San Francisco shelter program, as
well as the Episcopal Diocese of San Francisco and any of Episcopal
Community Service's donors and board members. There appears to be no
good reason, except for being sloppy and the continual toleration of
things that are illegal.
Jeanne Tanner
This was certainly an unexpected series of events. But the British are so well organized, and so tightly organized, that even in the face of tragedy they never missed a step, never missed a beat, never faltered, and never failed. They just closed ranks and kept on keeping on, kept on moving forward into the future. I have to admire that kind of perfectionism.
God Save the Queen. Long Live the King His Majesty Charles III.
Sincerely,
gospelgirl
Very helpful as I move through a storm. 🙏🏼🌈
Thank you so much for posting these sermons and so speedily too. I am from the U.K but I have for a long while now enjoyed listening to the sermons at All Saints. I feel an affinity with you all. I am disabled myself and cannot get to a local progressive church so I appreciate being able to tap into the wonderful resources available at All Saints. My thanks to you all.
This is so good. Your site is a charmer too (allsaints-pas). I'm not happy that your Life and Livelihood class got cancelled tomorrow night. I was looking forward to seeing Debbie. Stay well Reverand Bacon.
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Re: Racketeers
The enemy crooks are trying to acquire something that is not theirs.
While I myself and other honest people are working to mitigate the
damage, and injury, the crooks are working against us to widen the scope of the damage and injury. This has been the hallmark or the benchmark of their activities.
While I am working very hard to close up the breach. The enemy crooks are working to widen the breach.
These enemy crooks are ”umpaying" my bills after I pay the bill and trying to rack up late charges against my account which should have a credit because I always pay $60.00 instead of $59.00.
I always pay my bills on time to ward off evil.
I never gamble away my utility bill money. I never risk my household finds at the gaming tables in the casinos.
Sincerely,
gospelgirl
To be sure, this kind of United States of America has never existed before.
Sincerely
gospelgirl
That was so beautiful! Thank you and many blessings of love to you.
You will go to hell with this teacher of lawlessness if you follow him.