Pax Dei--Living in Peace 7

Aspirations and Desperations

The Age of Aquarius, sung by the Fifth Dimension,
from the rock opera Hair, 1969

 I really like this song. That is to say, I really like its engaging aspirations and entrancing music. I just wish that reconfiguring reality could happen by simply yearning for a new mystical, harmonious age.  Forty-five years on, the age of aquarius has morphed back into the ongoing age of egregious. In spite of our best efforts, our liberating aspirations (and at times prurient inspirations) have yet to replace our constricting desperations (and putrid exploitations). Here is a song about it all, from our new mock opera, Tare, 2014.

When our doom is just like that of Faust's

And stupid persons are blind to scars

Some Beast will guide our planet

And fear will steer the wars.

This is the conning of the Age of Egregious

The Age of Egregious.

Egregious! Egregious!

Disharmony, misunderstanding,

Selfishness, mistrust abounding.

Time for falsehood and derision

Golden profit, lecherous visions

Mystic nonsense, reprobation,

And the mind’s incarceration.

Egregious! Egregious!

Let the dark shine
Let the dark shine in...

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We join with people of all faiths and no faiths, of new ages and old ages, and everything in-between, in yearning for peace—starting in our own souls--letting the Light shine into us and from us, for the sake of both truth and peace on our beguiled, burdened planet.

Pax Dei

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:

God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. I  John 1:5 NIV

Randy Stonehill, Great Big Stupid World 

(Note: In addition to Stonehill's whimsical parodies and melodies,

(including this song's lyrical laundry list of things he does not like)
many of his other creative songs focus on hope and fortitude
via living in the Light: knowing/loving God. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-pcZ-rJNo

MC: Global Letters for a Global Community--7

Seeing the Light

You are the fountain of life.

In Your light we see light.

Psalm 36:9

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We are writing to member care workers and all those with member care responsibility within international mission/aid who identify with the historic Christian faith. We write to encourage us all to stay the course in our service to God and humans and to take full advantage of the many opportunities to provide and develop member care. We write fully aware of the problems that can discredit, divide, and disable the church-mission community (CMC) and all of our member care efforts. We write with a commitment to the love that is necessary to resolve these problems and to promote health within the CMC.

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We have just signed a petition:  Shine the Light—Together! We signed it because we care very much about how an international fraud, NCI KB, has seriously affected the public, charities, and especially the church-mission community—including the Evangelical member care community. This petition is an international call for integrity and action---for transparent and verifiable disclosures from individuals, projects, and organizations affected by this fraud.  

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 The petition has a brief update about the fraud with links to core documents for more information. The initial case went all the way to the Swedish Supreme court which upheld the previous verdicts of NCI being an ongoing gross fraud. NCI was largely an affinity fraud with one of the main organizations affected—people and projects--being Youth With A Mission. Note that this petition does not implicate any person or organization. Rather it calls for a positive and ethical response by people and organizations in order to help turn around this fraud.

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Would you seriously consider rallying with others internationally and signing the petition? And then sharing it with others?  Important efforts like this succeed as we get more informed and in solidarity spread the word (email, Facebook, etc.).  The comments of the signatories so far are also quite powerful to read, many of them who have been tracking with this fraud since NCI was publicly confronted in 2007.

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Thank you very much for your support, especially on behalf of the church-mission and member care community. To read and sign the petition, please click here:

 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/shine-the-light-together/
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Kelly and Michèle