Day two of our Journey and I've had lots of feedback on our No-Show Pilgrimage.
Mostly the feedback is positive, but there is an underlying feeling that there is nothing that can be done. Mark Braverman is one many who is doing something. He's talking about the situation. He's embracing the idea that justice must be served, however loud one's voice carries. To know that one is doing the right thing, don't we all live to reach that place?
Tomorrow I'll post the feedback from the last few days. I trust you are not having too much trouble in reading this blog.
Post Three on our travels - check out Mark Braverman! Here are some Internet sites:
http://www.jewishconscience.org/5.html
http://www.fatalembrace.org
http://markbraverman.org
http://www.crystalreviews.com/authors/b/braverman.htm
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294468-1
Know that whatever you do in regard to seeking the truth, you do as part of His plan for you. To learn, to seek truth, God is actively guiding you and he will be there when you find your voice to speak out. Where is it said that if you take one step closer to God he will take two steps to you? This is our journey.
"And God has given us the privilege of urging everyone to come into his favor and be reconciled to him...We are Christs ambassadors." 2 Cor 5
Excerpt from Mark Braverman's book Fatal Embrace:
"When Rami Elhanan and Nurit Peled-Elhanan lost their daughter to a Palestinian suicide bomber, they faced such a crisis. For them, their recovery as a family was inextricably tied to the responsibility they came to feel for their people. Nurit Elhanan spoke to an audience in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2001:
When my little girl was killed, a reporter asked me how I was willing to accept condolences from the other side. I replied with-out hesitation that I had refused to meet with the other side: when Ehud Olmert, then the mayor of Jerusalem came to offer his condolences I took my leave and would not sit with him. For me, the other side, the enemy, is not the Palestinian people. For me the struggle is not between Palestinian and Israelis, nor between Jews and Arabs. The fight is between those who seek peace and those who seek war. My people are those who seek peace. My sisters are the bereaved mothers, Israeli and Palestinian, who live in Israel and in Gaza and in the refugee camps. My brothers are the fathers who try to defend their children from the cruel occupation, and are, as I was, unsuccessful in doing so. Although we were born into a different history and speak different tongues there is more that unites us than that which divides us. (Peled-Elhanan, 2001)" p.258-259
In God's name, may peace find a way,
Peggy
PS See you at Risen Savior, Tuesday May 3rd at 7 pm to listen for Truths.
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