love the poor

Love the poor and love poverty, for it is by such love that we become truly poor. As the Scripture says, we become like the things we love. If you love the poor you will share their poverty and be poor like them. If you love the poor be often with them. Be glad to see them in your own home and to visit with them in theirs. Be glad to talk to them and be pleased to have them near you in church, on the street, and elsewhere. Be poor in conversing with them and speak to them as their companions do, but be rich in assisting them by sharing some of your more abundant goods with them.

-Francis de Sales

Autumn - George Winston

dream of a soldier

I Dream A World
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,

Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn

I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,

Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.

A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,

Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
Langston Hughes

 

 



God on Trial - full movie - high resolution

Marines of Company K 1917-18 - full movie

LITTLE BROWN DOG

A LITLE BROWN DOG

WALKED OUT OF THE FOG

HE KNEW HE HAD  FOUND A HOME

HE RAN A LONG WAY

WHAT CAN WE SAY

HIS LSHORT LEGS WERE PRETTY TIRED.

HE BARKED AT THE DOOR

DID SOMEONE ANSWER?

HE WAS GREETED WITH A HOWDY-DO

HE KNEW RIGHT AWAY

HE HAD YHE FOUNED THE RIGHT PLACE

BY THE LOOK ON THAT FACE.

AND A BISCUIT READY TO CHEW.

BLESSED IS THE MATCH

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.

Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.

Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.  -Hannah Senesh

 

My God, My God, I pray that these things never end,

The sand and the sea,

The rustle of the waters,

Lightning of the Heavens,

The prayer of Man.

אלי, אלי, שלא יגמר לעולם

החול והים

רישרוש של המים

ברק השמים

תפילת האדם

The voice called, and I went.

I went, because the voice called.  -Hannah Senesh

 

There are stars whose radiance is visible on earth
though they have long been extinct.
There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world
though they are no longer among the living.
These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark.
They light the way for mankind. -Hannah Senesh