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“Look carefully at the people who are truly flourishing. They may not be the people you expected.”— A contemporary paraphrase of Jesus’ Beatitudes Enjoying food with friends after church; how would they feel about a program which called people from Kyrgyzstan our "Muslim neighbors"? I was enjoying food with a group of women after church last Sunday when our conversation turned briefly to Kyrgyzstan. John is returning tomorrow from traveling there with our neighbor Randy Smith

“Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.”—Jack Kornfield How did I get to this place of writing a lengthy intro to a story and a 12 line (4 sentence) “blessing”? (But before I even go there, be assured there are shortcuts to this blog if a thirty minute investment is too much for you.) Recently, I watched a grandmother cry for her grandchild, who had been mistreated during the first week of school. I also heard about a boy who had already b