When I go don't cry for me
In my fathers arms I'll be
The wounds this world left on my soul
Will all be healed and I'll be whole
Sun and moon will be replaced
With the light of Jesus' face
And I will not be ashamed
For my savior knows my name
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter where I lay
All my tears be washed away
Gold and silver blind the eye
Temporary riches lie
Come and eat from heaven's store
Come and drink and thirst no more
So weep not for me my friend
When my time below does end
For my life belongs to him
Who will raise the dead again
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter where I lay
All my tears be washed away
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
How do you destroy community wealth? Look at our current system
How can we develop stronger and healthier communities?
A recent article by Olga Bonfiglio (The Economics of Organic Farming) reminded me that I had heard a lecture on this at the MOSES conference this past February.
I heard Ken Meter speak about how local and organic food can be a way of developing communities. Here are on some excerpts from Bonfiglio’s article, where she quotes Mr. Meter:
• "Our [struggling] economy is making a compelling case that we shift toward more local food. The current system fails on all counts and it's very efficient at taking wealth out of our communities."
• "This is not a healthy farm economy especially since $135 million in food is purchased outside the region," said Meter. "We need to cut down that $135 million by sourcing food locally."
• "This is a startling reality the general public is not thinking about because it is so far removed from farms," said Meter. "These are losses in the breadbasket of America! This is not a lucrative way to farm."
• Meter believes that if buyers commit themselves to invest in organic and locally-grown agricultural products, farm income would change. However, people would have to understand how such a strategy would benefit them and their community at the same time. It would require a sense of community or ownership over a place where people were unified on the basis of trust, mutuality, and support and not just a shared geography.
• For example, if people in southwestern Wisconsin bought just 25 percent of their food from local sources, all production costs would be offset and create $33 million in new farm income.
• "It is not a trivial thing to source food through local people," said Meter. "That helps fund communities and their schools."
• Meter cited several examples where farmers have been able to invest in local and organic production AND make a difference in their communities.
Examples:
Organic Valley, WI
Black Hawk, IA
Growing Power, Milwaukee, WI
Viroqua, WI
In Eau Claire, WI
Burlington, VT
Northfield, MN
Such arrangements break down self-interest motives to help move everyone in the community forward, said Meter. "The food systems of the future will also involve rethinking our habits of getting our food cheaply," concluded Meter. "Such change can build wealth in our communities." Mr. Meter works at Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis.
A recent article by Olga Bonfiglio (The Economics of Organic Farming) reminded me that I had heard a lecture on this at the MOSES conference this past February.
I heard Ken Meter speak about how local and organic food can be a way of developing communities. Here are on some excerpts from Bonfiglio’s article, where she quotes Mr. Meter:
• "Our [struggling] economy is making a compelling case that we shift toward more local food. The current system fails on all counts and it's very efficient at taking wealth out of our communities."
• "This is not a healthy farm economy especially since $135 million in food is purchased outside the region," said Meter. "We need to cut down that $135 million by sourcing food locally."
• "This is a startling reality the general public is not thinking about because it is so far removed from farms," said Meter. "These are losses in the breadbasket of America! This is not a lucrative way to farm."
• Meter believes that if buyers commit themselves to invest in organic and locally-grown agricultural products, farm income would change. However, people would have to understand how such a strategy would benefit them and their community at the same time. It would require a sense of community or ownership over a place where people were unified on the basis of trust, mutuality, and support and not just a shared geography.
• For example, if people in southwestern Wisconsin bought just 25 percent of their food from local sources, all production costs would be offset and create $33 million in new farm income.
• "It is not a trivial thing to source food through local people," said Meter. "That helps fund communities and their schools."
• Meter cited several examples where farmers have been able to invest in local and organic production AND make a difference in their communities.
Examples:
Organic Valley, WI
Black Hawk, IA
Growing Power, Milwaukee, WI
Viroqua, WI
In Eau Claire, WI
Burlington, VT
Northfield, MN
Such arrangements break down self-interest motives to help move everyone in the community forward, said Meter. "The food systems of the future will also involve rethinking our habits of getting our food cheaply," concluded Meter. "Such change can build wealth in our communities." Mr. Meter works at Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Twenty crushing thoughts
This is pretty personal, but it may be helpful to share. Or it may just be insight into my sinful psychosis! Ahhh well. I’m just hanging out, praying through a new crush, in this ridunkulous cycle that plagues me! I wish I didn’t have to deal with this, I say. Well, let’s fess up that this is an area I really struggle with, and especially need his sufficient grace. “Trust in the lord all ye saints, trust in the lord! Those who fear him have no lack….” Psam 34
1. Don’t worry about x’s long term goals, God is in charge of that
2. Don’t worry about winning x’s affection. If the Lord stirs his heart, the Lord will do that
3. Yes, this might be a good match, but you don’t know anything! The Lord knows!
4. Yes, you like being around him, but that doesn’t mean you are meant to marry him!
5. I pray that you would take him off my heart, or put me on his
6. I pray that I would not become a conniving jealous scheming woman around him, but relax and rest in you Lord and be myself!
7. I pray you would take away my distracting “scenario/fake conversation” thoughts or help me fight them
8. I pray you would replace those thoughts with thoughts of loving Jesus and serving other people
9. What can stop the Lord from doing this-- nothing?
10. I will wait upon the Lord
11. I will trust the Lord
12. I will cry out to my God
13. I will praise my God
14. I will not worry or fret
15. The Lord pursues me
16. The Lord’s affections are for me
17. The Lord is good
18. The Lord is always good
19. His mercies endure forever
20. I do pray for x, and that you would be with him and strengthen him- he would feel your love and passion and abide in you
1. Don’t worry about x’s long term goals, God is in charge of that
2. Don’t worry about winning x’s affection. If the Lord stirs his heart, the Lord will do that
3. Yes, this might be a good match, but you don’t know anything! The Lord knows!
4. Yes, you like being around him, but that doesn’t mean you are meant to marry him!
5. I pray that you would take him off my heart, or put me on his
6. I pray that I would not become a conniving jealous scheming woman around him, but relax and rest in you Lord and be myself!
7. I pray you would take away my distracting “scenario/fake conversation” thoughts or help me fight them
8. I pray you would replace those thoughts with thoughts of loving Jesus and serving other people
9. What can stop the Lord from doing this-- nothing?
10. I will wait upon the Lord
11. I will trust the Lord
12. I will cry out to my God
13. I will praise my God
14. I will not worry or fret
15. The Lord pursues me
16. The Lord’s affections are for me
17. The Lord is good
18. The Lord is always good
19. His mercies endure forever
20. I do pray for x, and that you would be with him and strengthen him- he would feel your love and passion and abide in you
Monday, May 10, 2010
Positing
Literature review is golden.
Now I've got a new verb in my soul.
It'll sound pretty good once I get it a go.
It can be a noun too- we'll just see how it rolls.
pos·it
verb
1. to place, put, or set.
2. to lay down or assume as a fact or principle; postulate.
noun
3. something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
Found in:
Meeting need and achieving sustainability in water project interventions. Huby, M., Stevenson, S. Progress in Development Studies, Jul2003, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p196-209.
"Baland and Platteau (1996) posit the advantages of federated structures for the
management of common property such as water, with nested multiple layers of rights
and responsibilities."
Now I've got a new verb in my soul.
It'll sound pretty good once I get it a go.
It can be a noun too- we'll just see how it rolls.
pos·it
verb
1. to place, put, or set.
2. to lay down or assume as a fact or principle; postulate.
noun
3. something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
Found in:
Meeting need and achieving sustainability in water project interventions. Huby, M., Stevenson, S. Progress in Development Studies, Jul2003, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p196-209.
"Baland and Platteau (1996) posit the advantages of federated structures for the
management of common property such as water, with nested multiple layers of rights
and responsibilities."
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