building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My grandfather, who served on a battleship during WWI, once told me of his meeting with the only survivor from a cruiser that had been sunk during the Battle of Jutland, a stoker by the name of Hugo Zenne. I was thrilled. What was that... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Eighty years ago, on Sept. 23, 1944, British submarine H.M.S. Trenchant torpedoed and sank the German U-boat U 859 in the approaches to Penang. Among those killed that day was my father’s 20 year-old cousin Fritz. I remember hearing about this cousin from my childhood,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The last few years we have witnessed a global pandemic. a major war breaking out between European nations, the rise of fascism, democracy being attacked and now a war between Israel and Hamas. In all of these atrocities people are screaming for their personal rights.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My great-grandfather, Beckers Wellem, occasionally parroted nationalist cant like “A true German does not like a Frog”, the English pejorative term here taking the place of the original ‘Franzen’ which readers with a more extensive knowledge of German culture will likely recognize as being traceable... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The outcry is horrendous, the pain unbearable, the brutality of hate horrific! Images of innocent young people celebrating the feast of tabernacles, families torn out of their sleep, children, babies, women, men, elderly mercilessly slaughtered by terrorists of Hamas under the fire-lit night sky of... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The natural and man-made catastrophes in Turkey and Syria, New Zealand, as well as Ukraine of late cannot but provoke strong reactions. Our emotions and thoughts are many and many faceted. Triggered by images of devastation, they can be overwhelming. I have concerned myself with... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- ’s ist Krieg! ’s ist Krieg! O Gottes Engel wehre,Und rede Du darein!’s ist leider Krieg – und ich begehre,Nicht schuld daran zu sein!Matthias Claudius There is a war on – and dear Lord,I don’t want to be responsible.I don’t want to be held accountable.I... Continue Reading →
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