Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity

6.18.2009

Jesus was there for us. Now WE need to be there for HIM.

We have been taught to think that Jesus is there for US.

I actually think it is more the other way around. It is not that Jesus is there for us. Jesus WAS there for us. Now we need to be there for Him. His children are suffering by the billions. Their suffering is His suffering. He needs for us to take their suffering onto ourselves, and off of him

For example:

DN! Carter: Gaza Residents Are Treated "Like Animals

Carter: Gaza Residents Are Treated "More Like Animals than Like Human Beings

6.17.2009

START'S LAPTOP OUT FOR REPAIRS - POSTING SLOWED WAY DOWN UNTIL THEN.

Late next week I hope to have it back.

Start

6.16.2009

We the sheeple LOVE telling Pres.Obama, Congress... what THEY should do, what personal risks THEY should do. But we don't so much like doing EITHER ourselves.

6.09.2009

StartL is NOT committed to Peace, or to Justice... but rather, to YOU, to your Joy, and to the elimination of needless Suffering.

Jim,

By the way, don't feel bad - everyone gets this wrong about me. Contrary to your email below, I am NOT committed to peace (or justice, as most people say of me) - no one could find the motivation to do what I do if they were committed to Peace - our nervous systems are not built that way.

I am committed, out of Love, to You; to my Entire Human Family; to the elimination of Your needless Suffering; to the Fulfillment of your Joy; out of Universal Love for you, for My Joy, and Yours. :-)

And I don't want "Peace" for me, or for anyone, at least not in the way most of us mean Peace - the absence of tension. NO, I want folks consumed, constantly on the edge of being overwhelmed with Creative Tension to CREATE Joy, and eliminate needless Suffering among our Human Family - because that process of Creating Joy, and Eliminating Suffering for our World Family is the One and Only source of Joy for us personally, the ultimate human experience. That is the simple truth of our nervous systems.

Your brother,

Start

ps: Yes, I am making a big deal of this, because getting this right is our entire hope, as individuals, and as a Human Family. And we are almost out of time.
pps: Teresa of Calcutta captured this enormously in one of her final talks in DC ( http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2007/06/teresa-as-you-do-unto-least-of-these.html ), as she was explaining the Peace that she and Jesus live for (me too): 'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' He came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. He came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others.

From: "jim"
To: Start_Loving@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:08:30 AM
Subject: SHORT FILM IDEA

Start Loving -

Greetings! My name is Jim and I live in your old town of West Chester, PA. I recently read the article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about your vigil in Lafayette Park and was moved by your commitment to peace.

When I read the article about you and your vigil, I thought this would be a good subject for a short film. I was wondering if anyone has already made a short piece on your efforts.

My thought is this piece would contain interviews with you about your devotion to peace, your inspirations, your encounters with tourists.

I've been a television producer for twenty years, working in news and then at QVC. I left a few years ago and am now writing short stories, none of which are published yet. I own professional video equipment and have some friends who may volunteer time to help shoot and edit. If nothing else, I think we could produce a piece you could link to from your web site.

Please let me know your initial thoughts. If appropriate, I'd be happy to talk via phone or set up time to travel to DC and meet with you. I look forward to your thoughts.

Thanks,

Jim

StartL is NOT committed to Peace, or to Justice... but rather, to YOU, to your Joy, and to the elimination of needless Suffering.

Jim,

By the way, don't feel bad - everyone gets this wrong about me. Contrary to your email below, I am NOT committed to peace (or justice, as most people say of me) - no one could find the motivation to do what I do if they were committed to Peace - our nervous systems are not built that way.

I am committed, out of Love, to You; to my Entire Human Family; to the elimination of Your needless Suffering; to the Fulfillment of your Joy; out of Universal Love for you, for My Joy, and Yours. :-)

And I don't want "Peace" for me, or for anyone, at least not in the way most of us mean Peace - the absence of tension. NO, I want folks consumed, constantly on the edge of being overwhelmed with Creative Tension to CREATE Joy, and eliminate needless Suffering among our Human Family - because that process of Creating Joy, and Eliminating Suffering for our World Family is the One and Only source of Joy for us personally, the ultimate human experience. That is the simple truth of our nervous systems.

Your brother,

Start

ps: Yes, I am making a big deal of this, because getting this right is our entire hope, as individuals, and as a Human Family. And we are almost out of time.
pps: Teresa of Calcutta captured this enormously in one of her final talks in DC ( http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2007/06/teresa-as-you-do-unto-least-of-these.html ), as she was explaining the Peace that she and Jesus live for (me too): 'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' He came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. He came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others.

From: "jim"
To: Start_Loving@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:08:30 AM
Subject: SHORT FILM IDEA

Start Loving -

When I read the article about you and your vigil, I thought this would be a good subject for a short film. I was wondering if anyone has already made a short piece on your efforts.

My thought is this piece would contain interviews with you about your devotion to peace, your inspirations, your encounters with tourists.

Please let me know your initial thoughts. If appropriate, I'd be happy to talk via phone or set up time to travel to DC and meet with you. I look forward to your thoughts.

Thanks,

Jim

6.07.2009

Never think that a committed individual cannot change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.

A Lonely Voice of Protest, Standing the Test of Time. Philadelphia Inquirer; Front Page 6/7/09

Giving peace a chance, shift by shift.

Philadelphia Inquirer - ‎8 hours ago‎

By Konstanze Walther WASHINGTON - It is 6:15 am when Jay McGinley begins his work on the edge of Lafayette Park in a homemade tent made of white plastic. ...

Students swim through hell and high water to honor veterans

Students swim through hell and high water to honor veterans
CNN International - USA
Decker, 22, is one of five reluctant heroes who left Dover, England, around 10 pm Friday, and set out over the channel's choppy waters, accompanied by

6.06.2009

Our Men and Women in Uniform - the One Group in this Country I Respect and With Whom I Feel Affinity. (Oh, Our Youth Too)

(... And too the folks that come to visit the Vigil.) The one group I respect in this country is our men and women in uniform. Yes, my life is dedicated to the elimination of folks killing others, but Courage is the hallmark of Humanity, of Human Health. That our men and women in uniform have been misled to thinking hostility is the answer does not deny their courage and humanity. Our men and women in Uniform are the one group in the US that can be depended upon to lay their lives on the line for the stranger, and for what they believe in. All the rest of us are on the take, doing unto others before they can do unto us; or just, self-righteously sitting on the sidelines criticizing others, aiding and abetting needless suffering through out criminal neglect. "I consider myself a soldier." Gandhi. "Give me a military man to work with any day; do not give me any cowards." Gandhi. It is unmistakable the admiration and respect many of the Secret Service have for my efforts; as my admiration for them is also clear. Quite a contrast with the near universal disrespect I receive from the "activist" community, and the "church" community; disrespect that I have come to experience as a powerful affirmation. :-)

6.05.2009

"...we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace..."

We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men.: Gerald W. Johnson

NOT our relationship WITH, but our relationship TO others is what is crucial to Joy, Love, Peace, Life, Earth....

"I have seen the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there is no more hurt, there is only more love." Teresa of Calcutta

6.03.2009

I can't figure how to stop all the needless suffering. And I can't stay on the sidelines. So I do what I do, every waking moment. And, this is what Life, and Love do. Yes?

6.01.2009

Fw: "Know Jesus, Know Love." And for many of us, "No Jesus, No Love."

Thanks Bev

5.31.2009

Blessed are the poor. Oh God.

There has been a soul in the Park these last 2 weeks, a pitiful lost soul. An African American man. 30ish? The little I can tell he is substantially if not severely mentally impaired, but I have little to go on. Had me worried the first 3 or 4 days, the way he was pacing around the park in the vicinity of the White House struck me as a bit menacing and possibly hostile, and angry. But this was a guess; it was not his demeanor, which has remained placid. I've made it my business to avoid eye contact because I sense that I am not called to divert from my work to attend to him, and I have zero sense that I can be of help to him, in any way. He has frequently paced very, very close to where I am, sort of violation the "space" of the vigil. I've respected his right to do so, and despite the fact that I realized he might be looking for kindness, friendship, attention, acknowledgment or someone to chat with, again, I've judged that, although he is my brother and I care for him, and I DO care, I DO have compassion for him, Triage, my duty to choose how to help the most people, dictates that I stay on task and NOT indulge my inclination to try and help him. To this very second tonight I feel that this is correct, that I am following Good's, God's, Love's Will in this. But I remain pained that he must feel hurt, maybe VERY hurt that I've given him ZERO attention. I can't imagine that he has literally two pennies to rub together. He sleeps on benches here in the park during the day (the Park Police sometimes allow DAY sleeping here) and as near as I can tell he is awake here all night long. He wears the same pair of slacks, shirt and sweater all the time.

My heart aches for him. I saw what appeared to be an uncharacteristiclaly humane Park Police officer in the park the other day. I approached her, and she was indeed humane. I know that there is little if anything they are equipped or likely to do, but I told her what I had seen regarding this fellow, and that I wished there was something that could be done for him.

It is 9pm Sunday. As I was working on the Laptop here in front of the White House at the Vigil a form (person) approached me from my left. It was this poor, lonely, lost soul. He reached out to me, and I saw a McDonald's bag at the same time he said, "Do you want a sandwhich? I have a fish sandwhich and a hamburger. You can have them." There was zero hint he was looking for anything, let alone in return I was happy to let my love for him shine his way, "Oh, thank you brother, but I've just had a snack. But thank you. Very kind" I instantly offered my hand and he responded with a wonderful warm, firm, human handshake, and then went on his way.

"Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."

I have a frame of reference

Bev, Gerry, David, Mary Rachel... My beloved A_____n family,

As I return from this visit with you, I have a frame of reference:

I was born and raised in Short Hills NJ, a NYC suburb, then and now one of the most over-privileged towns in the entire world, in the $2-3million house my self-made father built, exactly on the edge of an enormous 2047 acre, idyllic, untouched nature preserve - my personal playground Garden of Eden. Attended expensive private school. Belonged to not one, but two of the world's most desirable country clubs my entire youth including the world-envied Baltusrol Golf Club - the staff knew me by name as I played golf and dined there so often over the years; we were good friends.
I've skied the Alps, Rockies, Canadian Rockies too many times to count.
I've been to the worlds finest resorts throughout my life.
My father* was a Saint and brilliant teacher, and my mom was a social butterfly that was the envy of all that knew her, both of whom spoiled me beyond imagination.
My older sister* is the definition of loyalty and kindness to me.
I had the privilege and Joy of attempting to contribute the the lives of two biologically related sons for many years.**************************
I had the privilege and Joy of trying to be a good husband for many years to a woman I Love very much.***********************
I spent most of my adult years in my $500,000 house in one of the most desirable suburbs in the Philadelphia area.
Most of my adult life I rose within the fascinating, challenging, heady, exhilarating computer industry as an executive in new business development and business turn-around. Profoundly enjoyable, stimulating, emotionally, intellectually and financially rewarding. Worked with some of the brightest minds, from the world's great universities, over and over and over again.
When the owner of a firm in Salt Lake City, and he and his family loved me, who wanted to woo me to move there as a partner with him in his firm, I was re-engineering his business for him, I lived with he and his family (I was commuting every other weekend back to Philadelphia) in the Park City Utah Ski Resort in their multi million mansion at the resort in the mountains, with the same, a mansion in Park City being offered to me as well.
I've saved the jobs of hundreds if not thousands of folks when I was in industry, liberating them from crushingly oppressive mangers and management structures - putting themselves in charge of their own destiny and in the process watching them come aLive as never before they had been and turn their relations to many thousands of clients from predatory to that of radical Service.
I've lived and worked with an incomprehensibly wonderful Family in their work / business / life, as a much Loved friend.
....

I have a frame of reference.

As God is my witness, for $100 million to be spent on my pleasure I would not trade the very worst single 1/10th of a second of my last 5 years in DC for a lifetime of the above (excluding the " * " items. Why? Pure, enlightened greed. Duh:

Now, I am re-united with, and living every moment with my Entire family now; I live every moment with my family in Gaza, the West Bank; my global family in the lowlands at waters edge who face drowning, starvation, war and displacement by the 100's of millions from my/our US fossil fuel burning; with my family in Darfur; with my family in Haiti; with my family in the Niger Delta; with my 3 million displaced from Iraq; with my family in Sub-Sahara Africa, Congo, dying of desertification, and oil, and minerals, and war; my 20 million aids orphans; with my children in Chester PA, and DC and...; with my billions of fellow over-privileged (middle & upper class) zombies, who were born Human, and might become Human again, as I have after 30 long years of Death, by the Grace of God, and by Jesus, and by my biological sons, and my Father....
Now, every moment I live with my dying forests, my dying fish populations, my dying Appalachian Mountains, my dying glaciers, my dying reefs, my dying ice caps, my 100's of species going extinct each week, my burning forests... my crucified and dying planet....
Now, I am immediate "family," and co-laborer with some of the greatest sheroes/heroes in the world - Diane, Rick, Thomas, Ellen, Ann, Liz, Connie, Gael, Nancy, Timothy.
I was too late to give my life in support of 1-5 Jesus, King, Gandhi, Lincoln, Roosevelt... but I've been given #6, Pres. Obama to give my life with, shoulder to shoulder on the field, battling for the future of all humanity.
I was near-fatally narcissistic, self absorbed during the great battles for Humanity of the '60's but I've been given now the greatest battle, the final battle in the history of Humanity - Climate Change, the final battle for Civilization.
And .........................................

So, how can I add to this Heaven, this Nirvana I Live ??!!?!!??!?!??

I just did. These 8 hours I've just spent with you all. I once again basked in what you Give me, so impossibly often. And what is that? Well, I don't know for sure, and I probably never will. It might be Universal Love. It might be Acceptance. It might be Kindness. It might only be total Tolerance. It might only be sheer, Total Endurance of me. But it is a Miracle to me. And, it is a Miracle For my Work. It amazes me. It Awes me. It Feeds me for my work. It Supports me in my work. It Overwhelms me.

I think it is Universal Love. I Know it is Goodness; Yes. I Know it is God.

I have a frame of reference.

Blessed are the poor. Oh God.

There has been a soul in the Park these last 2 weeks, a pitiful lost soul. An African American man. The little I can tell he is substantially if not severely mentally impaired, but I have little to go on. Had me worried the first 3 or 4 days, the way he was pacing around the park in the vicinity of the White House struck me as a bit menacing and possibly hostile, and angry. But this was a guess; it was not his demeanor, which has remained placid. I've made it my business to avoid eye contact because I sense that I am not called to divert from my work to attend to him, and I have zero sense that I can be of help to him, in any way. He has frequently paced very, very close to where I am, sort of violation the "space" of the vigil. I've respected his right to do so, and despite the fact that I realized he might be looking for kindness, friendship, attention, acknowledgment or someone to chat with, again, I've judged that, although he is my brother and I care for him, and I DO care, I DO have compassion for him, Triage, my duty to choose how to help the most people, dictates that I stay on task and NOT indulge my inclination to try and help him. To this very second tonight I feel that this is correct, that I am following Good's, God's, Love's Will in this. But I remain pained that he must feel hurt, maybe VERY hurt that I've given him ZERO attention. I can't imagine that he has literally two pennies to rub together. He sleeps on benches here in the park during the day (the Park Police sometimes allow DAY sleeping here) and as near as I can tell he is awake here all night long. He wears the same pair of slacks, shirt and sweater all the time.

My heart aches for him. I saw what appeared to be an uncharacteristiclaly humane Park Police officer in the park the other day. I approached her, and she was indeed humane. I know that there is little if anything they are equipped or likely to do, but I told her what I had seen regarding this fellow, and that I wished there was something that could be done for him.

It is 9pm Sunday. As I was working on the Laptop here in front of the White House at the Vigil a form (person) approached me from my left. It was this poor, lonely, lost soul. He reached out to me, and I saw a McDonald's bag at the same time he said, "Do you want a sandwhich? I have a fish sandwhich and a hamburger. You can have them." There was zero hint he was looking for anything, let alone in return I was happy to let my love for him shine his way, "Oh, thank you brother, but I've just had a snack. But thank you. Very kind" I instantly offered my hand and he responded with a wonderful warm, firm, human handshake, and then went on his way.

"Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."

5.28.2009

Universal Love - Every alternative is inferior.

5.16.2009

Priests come to Obama's defense Chicago Sun-Times - ‎

Notre Dame Valedictorian: Obama Practices Catholic Values

Priests come to Obama's defense

Chicago Sun-Times - ‎

also...

Poll: Minority of Catholics Oppose Notre Dame's Obama Invite

U.S. News & World Report

5.10.2009

Those who change the world have made the attempt NOT because they could succeed, but because the couldn't not make the attempt; because it was the right thing to do.

Turns out that Jesus (Universal Love) can only be found in the desert

Going to the desert, the unknown, the strange... itself opens the otherwise closed mind of the Lost. Speaking in riddles/parables, having face tattoos, a lifestyle out of bounds of "normal" are all forms of desert. "And who did you go to see, a reed blowing in the wind. And who did you go to see, a man in fine clothing?" Jesus, Universal Love it seems cannot be found in plain sight. This is why Holy WomenMen wind up in the desert.

The Earth Wrecking / Peace Wrecking Addiction: Churchoholism, Cathloholism, Islamoholism, Judeoholism.... They are all the same addiction; just differnent brand names.

Our hope is not in people giving. THE hope for humanity is that people will greedily embrace that GIVING ALL is the ultimate human Life; and that giving just some, is our Death.

The single greatest responsibility of the parent is to live a life of radical Universal Love - radical service to the LEAST of these. Failure in this is to entirely fail the child.

The single greatest responsibility of the parent is to live a life of radical Universal Love - radical service to the LEAST of these. Failure in this is to entirely fail the child - mutilating / amputating / crippling herhis Humanity, probably beyond recovery.

The single greatest responsibility of the NEIGHBOR is to live a life of radical Universal Love - radical service to the LEAST of these. Failure in this is to entirely fail the neighbor, and the world- mutilating / amputating / crippling herhis Humanity.

Happy Mothers Day

6.19.2009