Naphtali

“Belonging shouldn't have the admission price of assimilation.”
― Amy Kenny, My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

“If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to me?’ But ‘If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?’ That’s the question.”[43] King’s question is at the heart of sacrificial love and acceptance. Compassion for another places us in service to something beyond ourselves and helps us become larger inside than the suffering we must endure or choose to endure.”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

“Hope, on one hand, is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about, for it flies in the face of all those claims we have been told are facts. Hope is the refusal to accept the reading of reality which is the majority opinion; and one does that only at great political and existential risk. On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.”
― Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination

“his book, Curry cites multiple examples of people who chose love as their response to seemingly hopeless situations—from the church elders who cared for him after his mother died when he was twelve to public figures like civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Franklin Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, who fought for justice all their lives. But before they could respond in love, each had to face and accept their pain, not as an expression of God’s will, but as the arena in which they were called to embody God’s love for someone else. “Love is not always easy,” Curry writes, “but like with muscles we get stronger both with repetition and as the burden gets heavier. And it works.”[45]”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith