May 12, 2025
Good morning
To be a writer, you have to write every day. Even on those days when you have nothing to say or write, you are told to write. When writing Ponder Anew for Poole for five years, almost everyday, it gave meaning to my writing. At around 3 pm, when I had not written anything, I just started to write., and I sent something by the end of the day. It was used to connect myself and my ministry to the congregation. I miss it, but it is now another time in life and writing. You are part of a new audience, but with some of the same people. What do you want me to write about ? I am posting my blogs on WordPress so the audience is a little bit larger.
Scholars tell writers that we have to know your audience. It is better than just writing into the clear blue sky, but maybe, I will try to find my audience by writing into the cloudy and rainy sky. .So, as I move into my next phase of writing, bear with me.
Monika Pieper Landoni’s last line of her 2025 haiku haunts my writing, thinking and living, ” Am I complicit ? ” Someone has said, ‘ if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.” They, and they are hard to find, say this about colonialism, but it could be said about other social, moral or ethical life situations that we have to confront.
We had a wonderful time in Jordan with our daughter Hannah and her husband Alaa. Just across the Jordanian border was the war on Gaza and the West Bank. What can I do , am I complicit ? It is genocide carreid out by the state of Israel. They have been trying it since 1948, but now it is so violent and vicious. I write to PM Carney and my MP Tim Louis. I agree with the new Pope and the Secretary General of the United Nations, that the carnage must end now . But nothing. And the Palestinains continue to suffer daily. How can a country stop food from entering another place,and the international community can do nothing. And we watch on the internet live the starvation of children. What does this say about our ability to change what’s’ wrong in the world ? Am I complicit?
HAVE MERCY ON ALL OF US LORD. AMEN
Fred
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