Articulating and Living the Scriptures:

Congressman Joseph Kennedy III response to Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan addressing the House of Representatives, Wednesday, March 8, 2017:

“I was struck last night by a comment that I heard made by Speaker Ryan, where he called this repeal bill ‘an act of mercy.’ With all due respect to our speaker, he and I must have read different Scripture…The one I read calls on us to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, and to comfort the sick. It reminds us that we are judged not by how we treat the powerful, but by how we care for the least among us. There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering. There is no mercy in a cold shoulder to the mentally ill. This is not an act of mercy. It is an act of malice.”

Our Environment

With all the cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget, Americans, and the world stand at risk of further damaging one of God’s most wondrous gifts – the earth. I hear and see people constantly screaming that they want respect for life…this respect not only includes human life, but also our environment. We have a responsibility to leave this earth in better shape than when we entered it.

Trees
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BY JOYCE KILMER

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

The Street-Sweeper

“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.