Streets

by Above the Golden State
when shadows turn to faces
when faces take on names
when names tell us their stories
of their brokenness and pain
when love flows through the cities
through the grid of all the streets
under bridges in the alleys
like blood through our veins
chorus:
love is real
love will bleed
love will heal, love
love will need
when love is used like money
it turns [...]

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No envy no fear

by Joshua Radin
some are reachin’
few are there
want to reign from a hero’s chair
some are scared to fly so high
well this is how we have to try
have no envy and no fear
have no envy no fear
brother brother we all see
your hiding out so painfully
see yourself come out to play
a lover’s rain will wash away
your envy and [...]

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Understanding Poverty Project

If you couldn’t make it to “A photographer’s view of the homeless,” here are his photographs and below are some of the words on the walls.  He’s also trying to make a film, like this one I guess.

The Understanding Poverty Project.  People are living on the streets–oftentimes the sickest among us.  People are languishing in the [...]

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Laura and Jason

They will be going to Vancouver tomorrow (Saturday) to train for five months before heading off to slums and shantytowns.  They will spend a year learning the language and forming relationships with their neighbors before asking where they can help with medical needs, what has been done before that has and hasn’t worked, etc.  Laura was born [...]

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Magnificat

And Mary said:
   “My soul glorifies the Lord 
    and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 
 for he has been mindful
      of the humble state of his servant.
   From now on all generations will call me blessed, 
    for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
      holy is his name. 
 His mercy extends to those who [...]

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