this is from the secular omaha world herald's weekly from the pulpit page.



btw: for Scott McNeill and Second Unitarian Church of Omaha Nebraska to come to know JESUS



From the Pulpit - Omaha.com


quote:

Moving from a perspective of fear and cynicism to hope and love takes real courage in a world that continues to challenge our hearts and minds.


Seeing devastation — physical and emotional — of lives all around us, we have to actively choose to believe in the good of life rather than the bad.


This doesn't mean life is only good; instead, it means that we seek out the positive from which we can grow and adapt the negative into something more powerful and hopeful than we are first aware.

This transformation from a mindset of scarcity or challenge to abundance and success is not an easy one, nor a solitary one.


We are held by the Holy, by those who love us, by the world around us and companioned with compassion to a place of growth and change.


Then, it is our obligation to bear witness to those who need compassion and to create with them a world of justice and beauty, of hope and love