I'm trying. Trying to be more purposeful, more mindful, more compassionate and less selfish. Without Jesus nothing in me would ever change. My trying is His Spirit alive in me.
"I look forward to a day when the American dream is understood to be not one of unlimited consumption, but of unlimited compassion." -John Robbins
"Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die." -Bono
"The only thing harder than hatred is love. The only thing harder than war is peace. The only thing that takes more work, tears and sweat than division is reconciliation. But what more beautiful things can we devote our lives to?" -Shane Claiborne
"You know it's funny... they got money for wars but can't feed the poor." -Tupac Shakur
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."