It was the last day of summer camp. I hadn’t met her before; we just happened to fall into step and conversation as we were…
Mosaic
Cory Lockhart, program writer
In this blog, I hope to explore my own and our world’s continuous and intersecting cycles of mosaic-making: of breaking and re-forming into a new whole, of creating beauty from bonding the broken pieces within and without.
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Listening with Wide Open Hearts
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state,…
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Quilting Peace
In the beginning was the Word Word of peace spelled in syllables of water and earth fire and air rising like music ~ Catherine de Vinck,…
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Hope Sends Us Forth
And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” –…
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What Is Mine to Do?
Recently I was at a gathering of social justice-minded folks, surrounded by people who are working to make our world more just, more compassionate, more…
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Embracing Our Brokenness
I arrived in Palestine about two weeks ago to do accompaniment and human rights work. I came with no illusions that anything will look different…
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Beauty from Brokeness
I love mosaics. My favorite ones are created from broken pieces of glass, tile, ceramic – pieces that may seem useless or ugly on their…