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from the Committee on Ministry and Counsel Drawing from my experience as a believer, I began writing psalms that originally were for The Holy One's eyes alone. My book Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice is scheduled to be published as the first of two illustrated volumes. Nancy Marstaller, a member of Durham Friends Meeting, is the illustrator of the first volume. The release date should be within the month. The psalm that appears below was begun in meeting for worship at Ann Arbor Friends Meeting on November 13, 2016. ~ Dwight Wilson PSALM 160 We hear Your assignment even when we feel like lashing out in hatred. We are the people who are called to love. Who among us answers is anybody's choice. Love cannot be flavored with contempt and remain. Love cannot be powered with negative actions yet foster positive change, healing deep divisions. Love's opposite is not a righteous anger, an emotion required when oppression exists. Evil doing's fraternal twin is complacency, that which contents itself with silence and whines when the winds of hate are tossing lives around as though might alone justifies viciousness. Your voice is a hard line. "Stand as though you hear. Walk as though you care. Run as though you'll win. And in all things recall love is the best humans have to offer the world." Let this be our song. May we dance it with joy. May those who are doubting our sincerity learn we won't surrender. |
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