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Putin

October 28, 2023Dependency, HomelessnessCrime, Mental illness, Russia, Takers v. Makers, Ukraine, Vladimir PutinWilliam Tell

Wrongdoers persist in hostility toward the innocent.

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The offering plate, part 1

October 5, 2023Dependency, Get on your feet, Homelessness, Jacob's Ladder, Motivations, Poverty, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsBootstraps, Dreams, Infantilism, Karma, Panhandling, Takers v. Makers, VisionWilliam Tell

One lives in a world substantially of one’s own creation.

The offering plate came around, and I got a shock. I can remember when I dreamed of putting $60 in there each week, as the woman does who normally sits in front of me. No such dream is available to me now; I am unable to envision myself ever putting anything in there.

My circumstances have rendered me infantile; a complete “taker.” One of those who seeks to receive “blessings” rather than seeking to be a blessing, a “maker.”

What can I give as an offering?

The offertory hymn was, “We are an offering.”

We lift our voices, we lift our hands
We lift our lives up to You
We are an offering
Lord use our voices, Lord use our hands
Lord use our lives, they are Yours
We are an offering

All that we have, all the we are
All that we hope to be
We give to You, we give to You

We lift our voices, we lift our hands
We lift our lives up to You
We are an offering, we are an offering[*]

I myself can be my offering.

More about that next week.

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The woman who vanished

December 24, 2022Homelessness, OUR BEST POSTSIrritability, Mental illness, Takers v. MakersWilliam Tell

Sometimes you’re powerless.

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Podcast — Contrasts and justice (Part 2)

September 6, 2022Justice, Podcast, Poverty, The William Tell ShowDisinvestment, Lumpen, McDonald's #2763, Need, Political correctness, Reincarnation, Stabucks, Takers v. Makers, The cosmic compost heap, Tyrone Morris, Urban blightWilliam Tell

Choices and inevitability

Contrasts and justice (Part 2)

Music:

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Podcast — Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore

August 2, 2022Homelessness, Justice, Podcast, The William Tell ShowDisinvestment, Harborplace, Inner Harbor, Lexington Market, Lumpen, Racism, Susan K. Smith, Takers v. Makers, Urban blightWilliam Tell

You get what you choose, whether you want it or not.

Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore

Music: Chicago, “Saturday in the Park”

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7. Mooring oneself in What Is

May 23, 2022Homelessness, Science, The Way of PeaceAmbrose Worrall, Contemplation, Media, Meditation, Mindfulness, Presence, Silence, Silentium Altum (Deep Silence), Social turmoil, Takers v. Makers, Weather, What IsWilliam Tell

THE WAY OF PEACE

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Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

When not at sea, a boat is normally tied, or moored, to a dock. The waves rise and fall, the winds blow this way and that, but the boat is stable and secured because it is moored.

The storms of life buffet us this way and that, and one can lose oneself in the chaos and confusion. Managing, coping, requires that one have some mooring somewhere. Some folk moor themselves in a concept, a dogma, such as Biblical inerrancy or the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. Others moor themselves in the dogmas of an ideology, such as Progressivism or identity politics; or a cause, such as environmentalism; or even a romance (a particularly bad choice). I propose instead mooring oneself merely in What Is.

Everything else is subject to change or question or dispute. There is no disputing What Is. And the underlying principles, the principles that underlie existence itself, never change. Continue reading 7. Mooring oneself in What Is →

Enamored of fact

March 13, 2021OUR BEST POSTS, Politics, The William Tell ShowAuras, Courage, Fact-checkers, Fact-checking, Honesty, Karma, Lumpen, Need, Takers v. Makers, The New Persona, Truth, What IsWilliam Tell

And seeking courage.

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Motivation and necessity

January 11, 2020Homelessness, MotivationsChoosing feelings, Count the cost, Desire, Dual diagnosis, Neediness, Panhandling, Prayer, Ron, Stewardship, Takers v. MakersWilliam Tell

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

I visited the ATM this afternoon to withdraw cash for this next week’s rent. Certain necessities arose at once, and at once drastic changes occurred in my motivations, hopes and dreams.

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