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Clarence Jordan
It is not enough to limit yourlove to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it... This concept enables peopleto live together not as nations, but as the human race.
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Drew,
I am encouraged by the seriousness with which you approach this blog. I still am not ready to leave my beloved country and southeastern area, as I believe it needs me now (that said I am going to Italy for 3 months in February). I do ache to get rid of my computer and cellphone and television and just converse and read and produce art and drink tea and serve others. Still, I can't leave, at least not yet.
Blair
PS- if we ever get nicknames I would prefer mine have to do with foxes. ex- brother fox, reynard, etc..
PPS- yes this could've gone specifically to drew, but hey, we are working towards some sort of commune right?
PPPS- $5000 is a hell of a deal
Based on our conversation this past summer down in Edisto, the point of actually taking action has seemed to me to be at least several years off (especially with Blair and Ellen currently in grad school and both Drew and myself maybe heading that way soon).
Of course, an option of purchasing land moves that decision-making process up a bit. Part of the conversation that inevitably needs to happen at some point is the matter of location and where people feel called to live.
As for me, although I have spent time in Kenya and am open to the prospect of living there again at some point in the future, I cannot say that's where I feel God calling me to be for a significant number of years right now. That may change -- I am really looking forward to getting some ESL experience, and who knows where the refugee work I'll be doing this spring will lead.
I'm glad for this group of people, so whether people feel like having a deeper conversation on the matter now or in three or four years, I look forward to it and strive to be open to the movement of the Spirit.
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