March 18, 2008
By ray in Poetry, Hunger & Poverty, Quotes | 0 comments
“For now I ask no more
Than the justice of eating.”
Pablo Neruda,
Chilean Poet & Noble Prize Winner
Neruda’s one sentence sermon peels away all the superficial verbage to expose the true core of hunger. Where there is hunger there is injustice. And everyone of us who enjoy full plates at every meal are participants in that injustice.
We […]
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February 7, 2008
By ray in Poetry, Hunger & Poverty | 0 comments
When will justice come? When will the poor and hungry be allowed to take their rightful place at the table so bountifully spread? When will hunger fade to a distant memory?
Justice is possible. But as the poster states which I discussed in my last post, justice will only come when we who are not suffering can […]
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February 1, 2008
By ray in Poetry, Spirituality & Religious Writings, Hunger & Poverty | 0 comments
WHERE IS BREAD?
Tune: Abbot’s Leigh 8.7.8.7 D “God is Here”
“Where is bread?” the great crowd murmured –
Thousands strong, yet all in need.
“Where is bread?” your people wondered,
Faced with such a crowd to feed.
Who, Lord Jesus, could have guessed it?
One small boy brought food to share.
Taking what he gave, you blessed it;
All were fed, with much […]
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January 30, 2008
By ray in Poetry, Spirituality & Religious Writings, Hunger & Poverty | 2 comments
When God said, “My hands are your,” I saw I could heal any
creature in this world;
I saw that the divine beauty in each heart
is the root of all time
and space.
I was once a sleeping ocean
and in a dream became
jealous of a
pond.
A penny can […]
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