Mary Plaster, M.A.'s Blog (10)

I am wondering if anyone on this list is planning an action? Sent: Mon, October 5, 2009 8:28:24 PM Subject: 350.org Letter from Bill McKibben and Mary Evelyn Tucker Friends—We need you to help at the last minute, and here’s a few sentences to get you inspired. They come from an op-ed that one of our leading 350.org spokespeople, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, just wrote for the African newspapers: In South Africa we showed that if we act on the side of justice, we have the power to turn tides; on O… Continue

One can find Sally's blog on her page here on CSC: http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson "All has been consecrated. The creatures in the forest know this, the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know as does the heart full of love. Strange a priest would rob us of this knowledge and then empower himself with the ability to make holy what already was." ~Catherine of Siena(1347-1380)translated by Daniel Ladinsky Every now and then you come across a poem, a phrase, a paragraph tha… Continue

One can find Sally's blog on her page here http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson "Reverence is the recognition of something greater than the self-something that is beyond human creation or control, that transcends full human understanding. God certainly meets those criteria. Reverence stands in awe of something-something that dwarfs the self, that allows human beings to sense the full extent of our limits-so that we can begin to see one another reverently as well. The easiest pr… Continue

One can find Sally's blog on her page here http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson "God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in their hearts." Koran 13:11 I ran across this quote from the Koran a few weeks ago in something I was reading. It is always good for me to be reminded that the world religions have more in common than most of us claim on a daily basis. It seems it is so much easier to talk about our differences than it is to lift up all the… Continue

You can find Sally's blog on her page here http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson June 29th, 2009 I was looking at my hands on Friday afternoon and, unlike many other times I was not reminded of my mother or grandmother, but instead was reminded of Mrs. Dempsey. Mrs. Dempsey was the home economics teacher at my high school. She was not what I would describe as one of the most 'put together' people around. Her clothes were often a little worn, a little rumpled. Her hair always ha… Continue

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You can find Sally's blog on her page here http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson June 9th, 2009 "The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them." Thomas Berry, The Great Work:Our Way into the Future Last week was quite a blur for me. Being involved in the many events that have surrounded our son's graduation from high school have kept me swimming in a sea of deligh… Continue

(You can find Sally's blog series on her page as well) "To forget that you are only human, to think you can act like a god-this is the opposite of reverence." ~Paul Woodruff Being human is tough work. Or maybe it is being human, trying to be a god, that is really the tough work. Perspective skews and blurs the boundary between these states of being all the time and we forget the limitations of our humanness. In that shadowland, it is very easy to lose our way. When one believes in their god-li… Continue

I love Sally's writing, you can subscribe to her blog by going to her page: http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson "A person can be as truly a saint in a factory as in a monastery, and there is as much need of them in the one as in the other." ~Robert McCracken On Sunday Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints. None of these new saints are still living but their lives were deemed worthy of sainthood through the process created by the Roman Catholic Church centuries ago. To b… Continue

I urge folks to check out Rev. Sally Johnson's page here on CSC.ning, her blogs are wonderful but do not appear here on the front page because they are RSS feed. http://originalblessing.ning.com/profile/SallyJohnson Peace, Mary Earthy Jesus (by Sally Johnson) One of my colleagues encouraged me to share some of the thoughts I offered last evening during our worship. What follows is a part of my meditation on the scriptures of Holy Thursday. Have you ever been sitting with a group of friends a… Continue