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I left the field of Human Services for several years because I was sick of bearing daily witness to the neglect of elderly people. I simply wanted to work with objects and things that didn’t experience pain and depression. I found myself at a factory-type workshop where we assembled and constructed parts for commercial vehicles. I found myself on the “Indicator Line” where we glued pieces of cut glass into plastic holders. Each one of these pieces of glass had a word or short phrase cut into its surface, things like “low fuel” or “engine fire.” Every word ...Continue Reading

Your Content Goes Here A Nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. -Mahatma Gandhi   It is true that we are in many ways very advanced. We have great cities, a powerful army, food to throw away. But what kind of countrymen and countrywomen are we turning out? Do the defenseless have to fear the strong? Do the weak have to be afraid that they will be forgotten? As a people, are we compassionate or are we greedy and self-serving? From a spiritual point of view, is America actually a backwards society? Let ...Continue Reading

Your Content Goes Here It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Richard J. Foster, author   God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the ruble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. -Bono, singer-songwriter   ...Continue Reading