Teresa of Calcutta: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

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link. “There is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.” Pope Francis

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“There is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.” Pope Francis

Pope’s Lenten message highlights poverty of Christ

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In his first message for the Lenten season, Pope Francis focuses on the poverty of Christ in becoming man, emphasizing that it is our duty to give the same humble witness in our care for the poor.

pic. Jesus - Healing the psychological pain and suffering is at least equal the duty of healing the physical pain and suffering... of the global neediest. I’m not talking about cheap ‘recreational drugging’ here, not ‘opiate of the masses.’

Healing the
psychological pain and suffering is at least equal the duty of healing the
physical pain and suffering...
of the
global neediest.

I’m not talking about cheap ‘recreational drugging’ here,
not ‘opiate
of the masses.’

Pope Francis: "Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape."

Bryce Kuchik shared Working America's photo.

vid clip. In Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets every year. That's when this brave pastor and his wife decided to do something about it. Watch their extraordinary story of love here.

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This is amazing

See That Box? That’s Where They Put the Babies. And It’s the Most Remarkable Thing You’ll See...

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In Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets every year. That's when this brave pastor and his wife decided to do something about it. Watch their extraordinary story of love here.

Pope Francis: Love is concrete. en.radiovaticana.va

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Pope Francis: Christian love is concrete

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Pope Francis: Christian love is concrete

***** From a Dear FB Sister: "Loving, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I sense a change in you that feels ominous. Again, if I am wrong please don't be angry, just CORRECT me. Do I read between the lines that you would "off yourself" to bring attention to the crisis? I have been sitting with this upsetting feeling for 2 days.... detail follows...

Dialog with a dear FB friend:

KK: Loving, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I sense a change in you that feels ominous. Again, if I am wrong please don't be angry, just CORRECT me. Do I read between the lines that you would "off yourself" to bring attention to the crisis? I have been sitting with this upsetting feeling for 2 days.

L:  Oh, sweet sister, no, no, no... nothing about 'offing myself,'  ...it wouldn't be noticed, nor have any good effect. But no, the first and last it is in my mind is your mention of it here. I'm so glad you were able to voice your concern. No, no, no, no... Nothing of the sort. I wish it could be that easy, but I've known for some time, and more clearly these last few weeks, I'd be doing anything like that... in a graveyard - we are so Dead in this culture. I am NOT to waste what life I have.

KK:  Phew! I am very glad to hear it! xo

L:

But yes, a big change. One that will persist, I suspect. Nothing is true because Einstein said it. It is true because it is True. Same with Jesus, or anyone. This pic, right, is a mashup of two things he may have said, but for the first time so clearly, because of experiences I've had these recent weeks... hits me as the roseatta stone - Our breath by breath, dna given purpose, is to lay down our lives for the global neediest. I've been circling in on this for 15 years, but I've hit a much greater level of clarity. Lay down our life for the neediest... with every breath. Schweitzer, Teresa of Calcutta, Malala, Mandela, Gandhi... this is what they did. And some of us place the likes of these at the pinnacle - I do. Because we westerners live so opposite of this we've moved to such a non-adaptive place - we can't see the need to stand, crazily, for our kid's future. We are too far away from home - lay down your life for the neediest, with every breath. With little hope for my efforts for the world, I still see my Path now as doing just that - laying down my life for the neediest, over the next whatever years I'm given. I'd LOVE for that to be on hunger strike with 10,000 others here in DC, but I've been down that road - folks in a graveyard don't hunger strike. But the disease is we've moved away from home - lay down your life for the neediest in creation (not bio-fam - we are ALL Family, ALL connected. Ebola in a non biofam kid can just as easily kill my biofam kid as another biofam kid can - we are ALL Family). I need to, as best I can, find, walk, and Live the path - lay down your life, every breath ,for the global neediest. So pitifully little, but it is the root cure, I'm so sure now, and the only cure that can save us from going over the cliff. Over coming weeks I'm sure I'll be posting more, but at my blog. I review posts on FB now but it is just such a substitute of talk for action... I think I can no longer feed into it. (((((HUGS))))) and much Loving forever, no matter what

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KK: Like!

L: :-)  LOL. 

***** Jesus: 'Lay down your life for the neediest.' This is where we westerners, we lefties, have gone wrong. (The Right is beyond lost). This is why we westerners, and those emulating our gluttony, er, um, righteousness, are destroying Creation.

Jesus: 'Lay down your life for the neediest.'  This is where we westerners, we lefties, have gone wrong. (The Right is beyond lost.) This is why we westerners, and those emulating our gluttony, er, um, righteousness, are destroying Creation.

***** pic. Who do you know that would gladly pay an awful personal price to stop ecocide by fossil fuels? The ultimate price if need be? Me either. And what price do you think it would take to stop an industry after $50 trillion in reserves? This is the sole reason the Fossil Fuel Industry has won. They know - they can exact a far greater price from lefties than lefties are wiling to pay. (Same for all the other leftie causes, too.) A future for creation has a terrible price, and no one wants to pay it.

Who do you know that would gladly pay an awful personal price to stop ecocide by fossil fuels?  The
ultimate price if need be?

Me either.

And what price do you think it would take to stop an industry after
$50 trillion in reserves?

This is the sole reason the Fossil Fuel Industry has won. They know - they can exact a far greater price from lefties than lefties are wiling to pay. (Same for all the other leftie causes, too.)

A future for creation has a terrible price, and no one wants to pay it.

pic. Jesus Teaching: Don’t, at any moment, at any price, for any cost, sacrifice your humanity, Heart, conscience, universal loving, agape. Yes, it will cost you dearly, everything that is not essential, not divine, not Joy. Yes, it is opposite of everything you’ve been taught in this sickest of all times. And all else is the path away from Joy, Life, Peace on Earth... the very survival of Creation.

My Teaching:

Don’t, at any moment, at any price, for any cost, sacrifice your humanity, Heart, conscience, universal loving, agape.

Yes, it will cost you dearly, everything that is not essential, not divine, not Joy.

Yes, it is opposite of everything you’ve been taught in this sickest of all times.

And all else is the path away from Joy, Life, Peace on Earth... the very
survival of Creation.

***** pic. Jesus: Hey, U.S. 99%: To Our Father’s Family YOU are the 1%. This, finally, is the end times. YOU will get it right, or you bring Hell-on-earth to YOUR next 1000 generations, and more. So far, even the best of you is getting it totally wrong. This last battle is NOT about the U.S. 99%! If YOU don’t make this last battle about YOUR entire Global Family, ALL CREATURES, YOU’VE ALREADY LOST. IF YOU LOVE; IF YOU LOVE ME; share this.

Hey, U.S. 99%:
To Our Father’s Family YOU are the 1%.

This, finally, is the end times.  YOU will get it right, or you bring Hell-on-earth to YOUR next 1000
generations, and more.

So far, even the best of you is getting it totally wrong.  This last battle is NOT about the U.S. 99%!

If YOU don’t make this last battle about YOUR entire Global Family, ALL CREATURES, YOU’VE ALREADY LOST.

IF YOU LOVE;
IF YOU LOVE ME;
share this.

nd. For the season I am reading scholar Dominic Crossan's "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography."

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Revolutionary-John-Dominic-Crossan/dp/006180035X

Michelle Obama helps kids track Santa by phone. washingtonpost.com. A profoundly Christ-ian family - 1 in a million. Why the Right hates them so much, like they hate Francis (and Jesus, Truly).

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A profoundly Christ-ian family - 1 in a million. Why the Right hates them so much, like they hate Francis (and Jesus, Truly).

Michelle Obama helps kids track Santa by phone

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A handful of kids calling to pinpoint Santa’s progress on his Christmas Eve journey may have been surprised to hear Michelle Obama’s voice on the other end of the line.

***** pic. You are no Christ-ian nation until YOU make your War-waging budget a Love-waging budget. Till then, STOP LYING and saying you are Christian, Christlike. YOU ARE NOT.

You are no Christ-ian nation until YOU make your
War-waging budget a Love-waging
budget. Till then, STOP LYING and saying you are Christian, Christlike.
YOU ARE NOT.

Gandhi: "God has no religion."

Start Loving shared Being Liberal's photo.

12 hours ago ·

(M) A great quote.

Thanks to Americans Against The Republican Party for sharing this.

He is Very Christlike, Loving, Universal Family. At first Christmas as pope, Francis urges openness to God. chicagotribune.com

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He is Very Christlike, Loving, Universal Family - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-pope-christmas-20131224,0,6915817.story

At first Christmas as pope, Francis urges openness to God

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis , celebrating his first Christmas as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, on Tuesday urged people to shun pride and selfishness and open up their hearts to God and their fellow man.

pic. I am not, and never will be a Christian. I am, instead, a Christlike, tho not a good one. I strive with every breath to be Christlike.

I am not, and never will be a Christian. I am, instead, a Christlike, tho not a good one. I strive with every breath to be Christlike.

***** pic. St. Francis: "Remember when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received, only what you have given: a heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage."

Mark Dwight Stewart shared Kathy Wakile's photo.

At the end of the day it's your reputation that lives on!! Good or Bad... Choose Wisely

***** HUGE CHRISTLIKENESS (SANITY, LOVING) HERE. READ. Why Do Conservatives Hate Pope Francis So Much? Just Read These 20 Quotes www.addictinginfo.org

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Why Do Conservatives Hate Pope Francis So Much? Just Read These 20 Quotes

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Since becoming the newest pontiff on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis has had a lot to say, moving the Catholic Church back to the actual teachings of Jesus.

Wife's dying wish for husband's new family touches hometown. CNN

Wife's dying wish for husband's new family touches hometown

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